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Ethan Cole is a problem-solving consultant and educator who has spent over fifteen years helping organizations tackle complex challenges across technology, healthcare, education, and manufacturing. He is the founder of ClearPath Consulting, a firm that designs and facilitates structured problem-solving programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
Cole began his career as a product engineer at a medical device company, where he led teams developing diagnostic equipment for emergency medicine. It was there that he first encountered the gap between how problems are taught in school and how they actually get solved in the real world. Engineers on his teams were technically brilliant but consistently struggled with ambiguous, ill-structured problems that did not have clear right answers. He began studying creative problem-solving methodologies, cognitive science, and design thinking to understand what distinguished effective problem solvers from ineffective ones. The result was a systematic approach that he has been refining and teaching ever since.
Over the course of his consulting career, Cole has facilitated over four hundred problem-solving sessions with teams ranging from five to fifty participants. His clients have included Google, the Mayo Clinic, the World Bank, Boeing, and the United States Department of Defense. He has trained more than three thousand professionals in creative problem-solving techniques, from entry-level engineers to C-suite executives. His workshops consistently receive top ratings for both practical applicability and engagement.
Cole is a certified facilitator in the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) methodology and holds advanced certifications in TRIZ Level 3, Design Thinking from the Stanford D School, and Six Sigma Black Belt. He serves on the advisory board of the Creative Education Foundation and is a regular speaker at the International Conference on Creative Problem Solving. His writing on problem solving has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Journal of Creative Behavior.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he spends his non-working hours rock climbing, playing jazz guitar, and attempting to apply first principles thinking to the challenge of growing perfect tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest climate — a problem he describes as "humbling but tractable."
