ADRIAN CHERNOFF – Product Leadership
Leading change, Adrian Chernoff helps companies create and deliver what’s next. From insight to marketplace, Adrian leads organizations to deliver innovation and actualize new products and platforms. Skillful to work in any industry and provide product leadership across disciplines including R&D, Marketing, Design and Digital, he makes the impossible possible delivering what comes next.
Medical Devices and Digital Health at Johnson & Johnson FinTech at Broadridge Financial Electric Skateboard Cars at General Motors Strategic Innovation at Ideation Genesis Theme Park Rides at Walt Disney Consumer Products at Eastman Kodak Medical Robots at NASA
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Profile
ADRIAN CHERNOFF helps companies by:
(1) Generating What’s Next
Leading product creation: crafting strategies and inventing viable go-to-market ideas. Defining strategic direction, identifying long-term vision, constructing new business models, inventing, envisioning ideas, building proof of concepts and selling in new ideas. Covering insights, design, research, prototype engineering, financial analysis, consumer testing and market positioning.
(2) Delivering What’s Next
Leading product development: making ideas into commercial products and services. Executing strategic direction and leading cross-organizational programs through all phases of product development. Transforming vision and ideas into viable production products and digital experiences through diligence, communication, collaboration with design, engineering, finance, marketing, operations and sales.
(3) Advising Senior Leaders
Providing executive counsel to senior leaders: people, process, technology and innovation. Guide and partner to senior leaders in identifying and planning growth strategies, technology roadmaps, business plans, product development, competitive tactics, and product differentiation.
(4) Motivational Speaking
Keynote speaker and guest speaker at events, companies and conferences.Inspirational speaker on innovation and technology to help companies and inspire individuals to innovate and lead through first-hand stories, tools and process to activate innovation and velocity through purpose, people, passion and diligence.
Educational training and knowledge transfer of key learning and insights from many industries. Coaching talent and teams on methods and success stories in how to strategize, structure, lead and overcome obstacles when innovating. Sharing best practices at each phase of development across the industries of medical devices, digital health, financial services, automotive, entertainment, aerospace and consumer packaged goods.
Delivery
Adrian helps construct the big picture, invent new possibilities, and pull together the discrete elements, teams and partnerships to invent, build and deploy the next products, programs or digital solutions.
Delivering Market-First Products
disruptive innovation at scale
Creating Significant Competitive Advantages
changing the game
Making Something New from the Ground-Up
process and product transformation
Leading Many Disciplines Simultaneously
multi-disciplinary people management
Experience Snapshot
Johnson & Johnson
Leading medical devices, IoT, wearables and digital health ecosystem.
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Building digital transformation solutions for investor communications.
General Motors
Inventing the industry-changing electric skateboard technology platform.
Walt Disney Imagineering
Designing and engineering new entertainment rides for global theme parks.
Ideation Genesis
Guiding and advising companies to accelerate and pursue disruptive innovation.
NASA Johnson Space Center
Prototyping and developing remote operated surgical medical robots in space.
Eastman Kodak
Launching consumer digital inkjet printers with market-first technologies.
Recommendation Highlights
Adrian knows how to navigate large and complex organizations to get things done.
Adrian is a brilliant designer.
Adrian has a peculiarly adept sense of the possible intersection of what people need and want.
Adrian’s ability is at the core of creating technology innovation that’s intertwined with corporate and consumer wins.
Adrian possesses a level of inventiveness that is off the charts.
Adrian is an extraordinary engineer with true insight and vision.
Product Innovation Leadership
Adrian leads large-scale product development programs and business teams from idea to launch. Working collaboratively, he defines, guides and executes: vision curation, strategic framing, knowledge integration, product generation, development, production, people management and operational efficiencies.
Vision and Strategy
product definition and positioning backed by research and insight
Architecture and Design
crafting customer experiences with desired inputs and outcomes
Product Development
translation, iteration and creation of working products and services
Execution
orchestration and delivery of platforms, experiences & solutions
Productization and Digitization
building next generation products
People Leadership
engaged management of talent, partnerships and partners
Skillsets
CRAFTING IDEAS
creating products in any industry
THE VISIONARY
Insightful skill in ancitipating new opportunities for revenue creation. Generate ideas, solve problems, utilize design and apply creative thinking while being vested in consumer needs and marketplace dynamics.
THE STRATEGIST
Strategic skill in spotting patterns and synthesize information to discover and derive insights. Bridging markets to extract learnings and translate opportunities. Possessing strong communication and presentation skills to create strategic plans, business model innovation and technology roadmaps.
THE ANALYST
Analytical skill at applying business rigor to the creation of new ideas, products and businesses. Financially grounded in compiling analysis and devising scenarios. Providing strategy, guidance, insight and reasoning based on learnings.
MARKET EXECUTION
leading multi-disciplinary programs to completion
THE LEADER
Adaptive leadership skill focused on delivery and results. Successful at leading programs, guiding teams and nurturing individuals. Being the product champion, removing road blocks and maintaining ongoing communication with all levels and engagements.
THE DEVELOPER
Development skills in managing programs and teams throughout the development process. Highly effective at maintaining customer focus, managing teams and suppliers, optimizing costs and making trade-offs.
THE MARKETER
Marketing skills at defining, developing and positioning products and services for the marketplace inclusive of branding, launch, collateral, social media, retailer partnerships, online presence and consumer experience.