The Lost Art of Mentorship: Why AI Can’t Replace Experience

Richard Broo has spent more than four decades inside complex organizations watching projects quietly drift off course, often long before leadership realizes anything is wrong. His career work spans Fortune 500 companies, mid-market firms, and private-equity-backed businesses, where he is repeatedly brought in to resolve project related issues when internal project teams are at a loss and outcomes are on the line.

Richard has expertise in product management, project management, new product development & commercialization, and operations. He has served clients in the plastics, flexible/rigid packaging, automotive/heavy truck, consumer goods, electrical/electronic, building & construction raw materials, industrial manufacturing, and medical equipment industries. Based upon his career accomplishments, he became an expert to resolve projects experiencing budget overruns, scheduling delays, scope creep, stakeholder issues, poor team dynamics, and projects failing to deliver intended results. He has guided organizations through high-risk inflection points, including stabilizing a failing medical packaging business, leading it through a controlled bankruptcy to a successful $22.2M sale.