Descriptive Panel Leadership

Emily Richter has worked in the field of Sensory Science for 11 years and currently serves as a Senior Project Manager at Sensory Spectrum with expertise in sensory evaluation of food and beverages. She brings her years of CPG industry experience to her consulting role to provide practical guidance to her clients. Emily has extensive experience in panel leading as well as training food panels and panel leaders. She enjoys connecting with existing panels to transform them into motivated panels who consistently produce accurate and actionable data. As a trained moderator, she also enjoys qualitative research and working directly with consumers to gain front end insights to guide innovative objectives. Emily holds a B.S. in Food Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a Certificate in Market Research from the University of Georgia.

Lisa Schroeder currently serves as a Project Manager, Product Understanding at Sensory Spectrum with expertise in all aspects of panel execution.  Lisa has over twenty years of experience forming, training, leading, and managing both descriptive analysis and quality panels.  She has also overseen and maintained sensory quality programs in food manufacturing production.  She enjoys developing protocols for training panels as well as creating protocols for challenging attributes and categories.  She has trained panels in Europe and Asia and has spent hundreds of hours assisting with developing scales and references relevant to international local markets and palates.  Lisa has a passion for coaching and mentoring panel leaders and is also adept at helping panelists understand complicated methodology.  Lisa has worked in the field of sensory for over 20 years and has held positions in food manufacturing sensory quality, panel leadership and panel management.