Radu Cocean is a trainer, consultant, moderator and facilitator in the field of Strategy Planning, with over 15 years of hands-on experience. As a trainer, he delivers The KPI Institute’s Certified Strategy and Business Planning Professional course, both as in-house and as open training programs. Since 2010, he is an accredited Trainer (certified by the National Qualifications Authority in Romania) and has successfully completed the American Society for Training & Development Master Trainer Program (2014).

As a consultant, he is part of the teams that draft development strategies and spatial plans for public bodies and local administration. He has done so since 2001, at all territorial organizational levels, starting with the international and ending with the local one. He is also a moderator and facilitator for public consultation meetings, making sure the strategy development process is open to all relevant stakeholders.

As a management consultant, he worked with private companies and helped them shape the business plans required to access European funds – which offered him insight on how strategies get implemented through successful projects. He is an accredited Project Manager (certified by the National Qualifications Authority in Romania) since 2011.

• October 2007 – Present –Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics, PhD. Lecturer;
• February 2014 – Present – École de Management de Normandie, Guest lecturer
• October 2013 – Present – The KPI Institute, Trainer & consultant
• July 2007 – December 2007 – North West Regional Development Agency, Scientific coordinator
• August 2001 – September 2003 – North West Regional Development Agency, Technical Expert
• April 2001 – August 2001 – North West Regional Development Agency, Regional Development Expert

• June 2011, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – Faculty of European Sciences (Post-graduate course in Management of Public Policies (1 semester specialization program))
• May 2007, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania – Faculty of Marketing (PhD. Studies in the field of Marketing)
• June 2003, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences (Graduate studies in the field of Political Sciences)
• June 2002, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Graduate studies in the field of Marketing)