Inside Top Brand Quality Systems: Lessons from Adidas Alum Norbert Teston

Inside Top Brand Quality Systems: Lessons from Adidas Alum Norbert Teston

This webinar will cover

  • Inside a Top Brand Quality Career: What it’s really like to lead quality at a global brand—and the lessons that shaped Norbert’s approach at Adidas and beyond.
  • What Brands Get Wrong About Quality—and How to Fix It: Common pitfalls in quality control operations and how leading brands avoid them.
  • Practical Advice for Today’s Supply Chain Challenges: How brands can strengthen quality control in the face of supplier complexity, cost pressure, and growing compliance demands.

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Date: 2026-05-12

Time: 11:30 AM (EDT)

Language: English

Fee: Free

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Topics: Inspections

Speakers: Norbert Teston, Dory Lanenter

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What you'll learn

Join us for an inside look at how leading global brands build, fix, and scale effective quality systems. In this exclusive interview, Norbert Teston—former Adidas quality leader and now senior consultant to brands and retailers—shares real‑world lessons from his career on the brand and consulting sides.

Norbert will walk through defining moments from his professional journey, candid stories of turning around struggling quality programs, and practical advice for navigating today’s complex supply chain challenges. Whether you’re refining an existing quality operation or building one from the ground up, this session delivers actionable insights you can apply immediately.

About the speakers

Norbert Teston
President and Principal Consultant, NT Creative and Consulting LLC
Norbert a highly experienced mechanical engineer and Quality and Compliance Director in the sporting goods industry, with a 25-year track record. Having worked on numerous legal cases as an expert witness, and with a strong background in Lean / 6 sigma, project management, and product safety, he possesses a deep understanding of the sportswear industry, particularly footwear and apparel, and is currently expanding his skills in other industries and product types. His expertise lies in helping companies develop tailored strategies, systems, and processes to ensure unwavering product quality and compliance. As organizations grow and evolve, so do their needs in processes and systems that will secure a continued quality of services and products. My ultimate goal is to leverage new technologies, such as IT systems and AI, to elevate the management of quality and compliance to new heights.
Dory Lanenter
Senior Business Development Manager, QIMA
Dory Lanenter has been a Product Integrity and Corporate Social Responsibility consultant at QIMA since 2012. He brings his expertise in product integrity and corporate social responsibility to support multiple client success programs at QIMA, a global quality control and compliance services provider. As a certified social compliance auditor, Dory supports QIMA's North American operations, helping QIMA's clients ensure ethics and sustainability throughout their supply chains.

About the organization

QIMA is a leading provider of supply chain compliance solutions, that partners with brands, retailers and importers to secure, manage and optimize their global supply network.

QIMA has on-the-ground presence in 95 countries, combining industry-leading experts for onsite inspections, supplier audits and lab testing with a digital platform that brings accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data.

For all our clients in 120 countries who use the QIMA platform and benefit from 24/7 support in over 20 languages, QIMA is Your Eyes in the Supply Chaintm


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