Adrian Cole

Background

About Adrian Cole

Adrian has extensive business development, management and technical expertise across the transportation and manufacturing sectors gained through a career encompassing industry and academia at both managerial and professorial levels. Adrian gain his technical engineering expertise within automotive powertrain, with a Phd at Bath University, post doctoral research at Imperial College and then in industry working for a number of automotive consultancies (ERA, MIRA) including a secondment at General Motors, Detroit. Adrian moved into academia to initially hold a professorial post at Birmingham City University and more recent as the programme lead for the £67m Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre at Cranfield University. During his career Adrian has coached over 150 engineers and managers from UK, Brazil, France, Germany, USA and Singapore, including in some leading academic institutions (University of Warwick, Singapore Institute of Management and Cranfield University) to understand and use proven tools and methods for innovation and creativity. Adrian’s expertise and experience extends to leading concepts such as; Lean Innovation, Lean Startup, Customer Informed Innovation (e.g. Jobs to be Done), TRIZ, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Innovation Management. Adrian is a past Director of the Society of Automotive Engineering, a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society plus the author of multiple technical papers