Strategy, Operations & Business Analytics

Building at the intersection of data, operations, and entrepreneurship.

I'm John Sterlin. I help organizations answer their hardest questions, then build the strategy, operations, and partnerships to act on the answer.

How I think about things

Questions I'm thinking through.

Articles on strategy, systems, leadership, innovation, and what it takes to build in complex environments.

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In practice

Strategy happens in the room.

The work is part analysis, part conversation, and part building the confidence to move. I stay close to the people, decisions, and operating realities that turn an idea into action.

I don't believe in strategy that only works on paper.

A little about me

Thoughtful by nature.
Practical by choice.

I grew up in Les Cayes, on Haiti's southern coast, where resourcefulness isn't a buzzword. It's how things actually get done. I spent nearly a decade helping build the country's first innovation hub from the ground up, with no playbook and no room for guessing wrong. That instinct is still how I approach every problem: understand it deeply, then build something that actually holds up in the real world.

I'm always interested in meeting thoughtful people, hearing about ambitious problems, and finding new ways to contribute.

Principles I bring to the work

01

Face the constraints honestly.

02

Make the complex feel clear.

03

Build with people, not around them.

04

Structure outlasts a good idea.

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