Ed Cohen

At the center of Ed Cohen’s work is a simple belief: relationships shape everything—how we lead, how we work, and how we live.

Over the past five decades, Ed has worked with people and teams in more than seventy-five countries. His work has taken him from corporate boardrooms to classrooms, community centers, and leadership retreats around the world. In every setting, his focus has remained the same: helping people build trust, navigate change, and create cultures where both people and organizations can thrive.

Ed Cohen is a global leadership strategist, author, and advisor known for helping organizations build relationship-centered, high-performing cultures. During his career he held senior leadership roles at Booz Allen Hamilton and Satyam Computer Services (now Tech Mahindra), where he helped build one of the world’s top-ranked learning organizations. He later served as Chief People Officer at SprintRay during a period of rapid global growth. His work has been recognized with numerous international honors, including multiple Association for Talent Development Excellence in Practice Awards.

Ed is the author of Leadership Without Borders and Riding the Tiger. His newer books continue expanding the themes of connection, courage, and transformation: Transforming Teams (ATD Press), Worlds Apart (OM Books International), and the memoir Vulnerable: One Man’s Journey from Abuse to Abundance.

In Vulnerable, Ed turns the same relational lens inward. The book explores his own journey from childhood abuse and decades of silence to healing, truth, and purpose. Few men speak openly about surviving abuse. Through this memoir, Ed hopes to help break that silence and remind others that healing begins when we no longer carry our stories alone.

Across his writing, speaking, and advisory work, Ed consistently challenges leaders to look beyond metrics and strategy and attend to the quality of their relationships—where trust, belonging, and accountability truly take root.

Ed lives in the United States with his wife, Priscilla. He continues to write, teach, and speak globally on leadership, culture, healing, and the power of human connection.