Short CV

Javier Villalba-Diez, PhD. has the mission of empowering individuals and organizations achieve their strategic goals while increasing trust. 

Dr. Villalba-Diez is a Mechanical Engineer with Technische Universität München, Germany and Industrial Engineer with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain (2003). He received his first PhD in Engineering, Economics and Organizational Innovation with focus on Strategic Organizational Design from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2016. His PhD was awarded by UPM with the prize for best doctoral thesis by UPM.

Dr. Villalba-Diez finished a second PhD in Quantum Computational applications for Industry 4.0 in 2022 with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His PhD was also awarded by UPM with the prize for best doctoral thesis.

His current research interests include Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, Hoshin Kanri, Strategic Organizational Design, Business and Artificial Intelligence. He has a background of more than 15 years as consultant and production manager in a number of positions related to manufacturing operations in German, American and Japanese manufacturing facilities. 

His research and work has brought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and share lessons learned. 

He splits his time between Germany, USA, Japan, and Spain.