About Colman
Bio
Grounded in unleashing human and creative potential, Colman has spent his life searching for, testing, and scaling the most effective solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
As the Global Managing Director of Unreasonable Group, Colman builds ecosystems of high-growth for-profit start-ups tackling BFPs (big f*cking problems). He currently collaborates with Barclays, Pearson, Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, and the U.S. State Department, among others, to address issues such as climate change, illiteracy, and poverty. In five short years, Unreasonable Group has grown a portfolio of 180 ventures, which have raised more than $3 billion and positively impacted 440 million lives.
Previously, Colman served as a Design-Thinking Coach at Stanford University’s d.school, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Senior Innovation Director at Nike, top HIV/AIDS official in the Republic of Botswana government, and founder of two start-ups.