Ed Cohen

Ed Cohen (ed@nelsoncohen.com) is Executive Vice President for Nelson Cohen Global Consulting. He provides consulting in learning and leadership strategies, business alignment and metrics, and leadership development as a facilitator and executive coach. He is a veteran in learning & leadership development with a career spanning more than 36 years and crossing 60-plus countries who is always on the cutting edge of talent management. WEBSITES: http://nelsoncohen.com Twitter: ed_leaderspeak Ed is the only CLO to lead two companies to the #1 rank for learning & development. During a seven year stint in India, he led Satyam (not Tech Mahindra) to the #1 rank on the ATD BEST Awards annual list, and achieved a top 10 ranking in the Training Top 125 (the first and only company to achieve both). Prior to India, Ed spent close to eight years as the strategic leader for Booz Allen's corporate university where they achieved the #1 rank on both the ATD BEST Awards and the Training Top 125 lists. His clients include AON, Yahoo, Western Union, Emergent Biosollutions, Novo Nordisk, Infosys, UST Global, Prudential, and Mercer Consulting. His recently released book, Leadership Traits Insights for Today, Pathway to the Future is based on a global survey that received 2,800 business professionals from 122 countries that looks at how people from different generations and parts of the world view leadership. It features articles from future and current leaders around the world including Tony Bingham, Ann Herrmann-Nedhi, Beverly Kaye, Tamar Elkeles, and Antonio Rubio. At Chief Learning Officer Magazine (www.clomag.com), he authors the Your Career blog dedicated exclusively to career development for senior learning leaders. Early factoid: In the early 1980's, Ed was as a teacher who transitioned into technology as personal computers rolled out in 1984. He led the charge to develop content and train IBM employees on their use (remember DOS) and taught trainers around the world on how to teach others to use computers.