Biography:
Dr. David S. Cohen Ed. D. is a seasoned management consultant passionate about building organizations by successfully aligning their people to corporate values and corresponding behaviors. He works with organizations and their leaders to ensure the clear articulation of the culture and the application of that knowledge to building integrated talent management processes and practices and improving employee engagement.
David has over 29 years of consulting experience working with organizations across all industry sectors. He has worked with companies on five continents. He has extensive knowledge and success working on helping organizations build:, articulated values, employee engagement, leadership development, structured behavioral interviewing processes, onboarding, performance management programs, programs on accountability to meeting business commitments, succession planning processes, 360 Feedback systems, company-wide behavioral competency models, career planning processes, and team building activities, organization culture initiatives In addition to the above his clients call upon him to coach senior leaders.
David is also frequently called upon to present at conferences around the globe. He has presented on various topics associated with talent management and organizational culture. His most recent presentations were in Singapore, Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai, and Toronto.
Furthermore, David has authored books, including The Talent Edge: A Behavioral Approach to Hiring, Developing, and Keeping Top Performers (John Wiley and Sons, August 2001) which remains a valuable book and has been reprinted five times. His second book focuses on corporate culture, organizational values, and leadership and is titled Inside the Box: Leading With Corporate Values to Drive Sustained Business Success (Jossey-Bass September 2006). In 2009 he received the' HR Leadership Award' from the Asia Pacific HRD Summit’ for thought leadership in Human Resources because of his work on developing behavioral competencies and their application to building integrated talent management systems. He holds a humanistic and behavioral studies doctorate from Boston University with post-graduate work and teaching at the Harvard School of Education. He is on the faculty for continuing executive education at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, and on the faculty of Durham College in the School of Business, IT, and Management, where he teaches organizational behavior, succession planning, and behavioral interviewing.
