At Nelson Cohen Global Consulting, we develop leadership potential to lead, learn, transform and achieve desired results through strategic consulting, succession planning, change management, coaching, speaking and learning services. We’ve helped businesses, in over 40 countries, leverage leadership to transform into great places to work, attract world-class leadership talent, and become more globally competitive.

We provide:

Strategic Consulting

• Needs Assessment
• Analysis Of Trends And Patterns
• Identification Of Opportunities
• Facilitation Of Strategies And Solutions

Change Management

• People Impact Analysis
• Broad Awareness Planning And Implementation
• Adoption And Penetration Strategies
• Measurement

Leadership Development

• Global Leadership
• Global Business Acumen
• Executive Presence
• Strategic Leadership
• Growing And Sustaining Powerful Teams
• Executive Retreats

Leadership Brand Planning

• Identification Of Leadership As A Strategic Differentiator
• Development Of An Organizational Brand Plan
• Development Of Individual Brand Plans To Enhance Organization’s Brand
• Strategies For Optimal Talent Attraction

Succession Planning

• Leadership Audit To Assess Current State Of Leadership
• Alignment Of Leadership Goals With Desired Growth
• Implementation That Expands The Leadership Pipeline

Executive Coaching

• Business Performance
• Maximizing Relationships
• High Integrity Leadership
• On-Boarding For New Leaders
• Global And Cultural Competence
• Building An Individual Brand Plan

Keynotes:

We have provided insights to groups around the world, presenting on insightful topics such as these in keynote and seminar format.

Riding the Tiger: Leading through Learning in Turbulent Times

Chronicling the Satyam crisis wherein the CEO confessed to having “cooked the books” for more than 8 years. He was arrested and sent to prison leaving 50,000 people based in 60 countries in shock and fear about their future. Session provides advice for leaders to survive turbulence and to enhance the leadership capacity of the organization.

Leadership Without Borders

Business leaders in today’s border less global marketplace face unprecedented challenges. The emergence of the knowledge economy has demanded that business leaders become global leaders. Successful global leaders are those with strategies for guiding and empowering a diversified workforce operating in different countries, cultures, and time zones so that they can maximize the returns from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs. Leadership Without Borders poses the question: What advice do successful global leaders have for future and current global leaders? This dynamic session provides insights from more than 250 executives who lived and worked in more than 60 countries.

Moving up the Relationship Value Chain

The most oft-repeated buzz phrase we hear today is “moving up or down the ‘value chain’’’ to provide the full spectrum of services. Most companies strive to move up the value chain. Be it growth, revenue, margin, brand enhancement, etc., the solution is perceived to be in climbing up the chain. However, most do not realize that moving up the “relationship chain” is even more important. How do you move up the “relationship chain” shifting from familiarity to trust and strategic collaboration? That is exactly what you get from this highly engaging session.

Global Business Acumen

Using research from Leadership Without Borders and experiences from having conducted business in more than 40 different countries, this session presents eight critical areas of business acumen for leaders who are playing a role in the new global paradigm.

The Trust Equation

How do leaders build trust? In times like these, there is a breakdown of trust. Once the trust is perceived to be broken, can it be put back together? Or is it like Humpy Dumpy, where “all the king’s people” couldn’t put him back together again? Using observations and insights from senior leaders around the world in recent times, this session provides insight into how can trust be built and rebuilt? This highly engaging session provides practical steps for sustaining trusted leadership.

Leadership Brand Planning

Most organizations need this and few have it. A leadership brand plan identifies the unique attributes of each leader then compiles the results to create an enterprise brand. For example, GE is known more for producing great leaders than for producing great light bulbs. Why is this important? When you go to purchase a light bulb, you are more likely to purchase from the company that produces great leaders than one you know nothing about. Learn components of solid individual and enterprise leadership brand plans and a framework for how to go about building one that differentiates leaders in our global sea of sameness.

High Integrity Leadership
Is it possible to teach integrity? Yes, and it’s time we embark on the journey of doing so. Sharing experiences from around the world on the merits of high integrity leadership, this interactive session provides useful and interesting suggestions for teaching and encouraging integrity as well as tools for detecting deception.

Priscilla Nelson

President & CEO, Nelson Cohen Global Consulting

Priscilla Nelson is a proven senior level executive with 30 years of best in class talent management experience working with Fortune 500 companies in areas of human resources, strategic development, performance consulting, global diversity and succession planning. She has a unique ability to recognize the additional strengths most leaders have within them and don’t know how to nurture.

Glaxo SmithKline, AT&T, Rollins College, Emergent Biosolutions, Titan Corporation, the U.S. Government, Mahindra Satyam and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals are among her list of notable clients.

She has received international acclaim for her work in leadership development, executive coaching and diversity.  Her strength as a consultant and leader comes from her ability to partner on a deep level to assess, and help leaders identify strengths, and how they differentiate and brand themselves.  All complemented by action learning, it is among the best in the industry.  She has presented throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with numerous keynotes in China, India.

Prior to her consulting role she was recruited for international placement and held a $10 million budgetary responsibility for all senior level learning programs, executive coaching and mentoring service offerings.  She led a team of professionals who designed and facilitated leadership development for 5,600 senior level leaders and C-Suite executives across the world resulting in the development of a global core competencies framework, succession planning and feedback process, and impacting the reduction of attrition in a 50000+ associate organization culminating in the acquisition of numerous awards and citations.  She is the author of an internal professional coach certification program aligned to the International Coach Federation core competencies, resulting in a $15 million savings by providing internal executive coaching services throughout the organization, and “Let’s Talk”, a desktop resource manual comprised of 90 powerful questions for leaders.  She is also co-author of “Riding the Tiger” Leading through Learning in Turbulent Times, being published by ASTD Press in May, 2010.

Priscilla has a M.S. in Human Resources Economics, and a M.A. in Counselor Education.  She is a Certified Performance Technologist, a Certified Professional Coach and holds numerous certifications in assessment tools including Benchmarks 360, and MBTI; and is a member of the International Coach Federation, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the American Society for Training and Development.

Ed Cohen

Executive Vice President, Nelson Cohen Global Consulting

Ed Cohen is a talent executive with close to 30 years of high impact, global experience.  His specialty areas include leadership strategies, executive development, coaching, high impact leadership teams, succession planning, change management and the global leadership journey.

Ed has worked in more than 40 countries with organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, Mahindra Satyam, Seer Technologies, National Australia Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Farmers Insurance Group, Banco Banesto, and the World Economic Forum.  His strength as a consultant and leader comes from his high integrity approach to building trusted relationships. From China to Chicago, from Australia to Amsterdam, Ed has also been a featured speaker in more than 40 different countries around the world.

Ed Cohen is the only Chief Learning Officer to lead two companies to ASTD BEST #1 Award  ranking; Booz Allen Hamilton and Satyam Computer Services (only company outside United States to achieve this). He is the author of Leadership Without Borders published by John Wiley & Sons which received multiple international accolades.  He is also co-author of Riding the Tiger: Leading Through Learning in Turbulent Times, published by ASTD Press this May 2010.

Prior to his consultant role, from 2005 to 2009 Ed lived in India working as Senior Vice President for Mahindra Satyam, a global technology professional services firm. Under Ed’s leadership, they became the first and only company outside the U.S. to attain the # 1 ranking by American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). Before that, Ed Cohen was eight years with Booz Allen Hamilton. Under Ed’s leadership, they achieved the # 1 ranking on both Training Magazine’s Top 125 list and ASTD’s global list. Booz Allen also received more than 30 “Excellence in Practice” recognitions from ASTD (American Society for Training & Development).  He implemented learning and people services including people strategies, executive coaching programs, action learning, virtual learning, social networking, that have cumulatively resulted in more than $500 M of return on investment.

Ed participated in Harvard Business School’s Leading Professional Services Firms, earned a M.S. in education from Nova Southeastern University and a B.A. in accounting from the University of Florida.