Meet Priscilla Nelson and Edward Cohen of Nelson Cohen Global Consulting in Encinitas

Today we’d like to introduce you to Priscilla Nelson and Edward Cohen.

Priscilla and Ed launched Nelson Cohen Consulting in 2009, to continue pursuing their lifelong passion of helping leaders be their absolute personal best. They influence leaders in over 60 countries helping transform their organizations through leadership into great places to work that retain and attract the best talent. Their organizations benefit from greater energy, momentum, openness to change and extreme collaboration. More important than Pris’ and Ed’s expertise is their desire and energetic approach to helping professionals to build and practice behaviors that result in great relationships and profitability.

They provide:

• Executive Coaching
• Transition Coaching
• Team Coaching
• Employee Engagement assessment & strategies
• Facilitation of Meetings and Retreats
• Experiential Team Building including our exclusive BEST Team Ever Process
• Organization Design & Development
• Change Management

Priscilla “Pris” Nelson brings deep experience in leadership development that stretches across the globe. During more than 36 years working with leaders in organizations ranging from small business owners to a multitude of Fortune 500 companies, she’s earned international acclaim for her efforts in leadership development, executive coaching and diversity across more than 60 countries. Leaders who have worked with Pris, describe her leadership and coaching style as constructive, caring and action oriented. She is a values driven, results oriented coach and consultant who aligns to her clients’ goals, helping them achieve incredible results. For many organizations, Pris has developed in-house corporate Executive Coaching and Mentoring Programs with internal corporate certification as well as Learning and Development Professional Certification Programs.

Her career highlights include leading a team of professionals who designed and facilitated leadership development programs for 5,600 global senior leaders and C-Suite executives. Under her leadership, the team created a global competency framework, succession planning and feedback process that resulted in customer and employee satisfaction increasing in a 50,000-plus associate organization and won countless awards and citations. She also led senior-level programs, executive coaching and mentoring programs. And, she started the first International Coach Federation associated chapter in Hyderabad during the five years she lived in India.

Pris is the co-author of Leadership Traits Insights for Today Pathway to the Future (May 2015), authored an internal professional coach certification process, aligned to the International Coach Federation core competencies, and Let’s Talk, a desktop resource manual listing 90 Powerful Questions for Leaders. She is also co-author of Riding the Tiger: Leading Through Learning in Turbulent Times (ASTD Press), contributor to ASTD’s Leadership Handbook (ASTD 2010), and contributor to Ready, Aim, Captivate (Expert Insights Publishing 2012), as well as numerous articles around the world.

A Master Certified Corporate Executive Coach, and a Board Certified Coach, Pris earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Utah, a Master of Science in Human Resources Economics from the University of Utah and a Master of Arts in Community Counseling University of South Florida.

Ed Cohen is a veteran in talent and leadership development. His career spans more than 36 years crossing 60-plus countries strategically supporting global technology, consumer, and professional services firms. He specializes in talent and leadership development, as well as technology strategies and change leadership. Ed is the only talent executive to lead two companies to the number one rank for learning & development. During a seven-year stint in India, he led Tech Mahindra to #1 on the ATD BEST Awards list, and achieved a top 10 rank in the Training Top 125 (first Asian company to do so). Prior to India, Ed spent 8 years leading the strategic consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton’s corporate university where they achieved the #1 rank on both the ATD BEST Awards and Training Top 125 lists.

Ed has led learning, executive talent and organization development in global organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, and most recently, Amazon. He also has consulted on learning strategies and provided change leadership and executive coaching for global organizations including AON Corporation, Barclays Bank, Cisco, Farmers Insurance, Infosys, Mercer Consulting, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, National Australia Bank, Novo Nordisk, Prudential Financial, Softserve Technologies (Ukraine), Time Warner, UST Global, Western Union, and Yahoo.

He is the author of three books: Leadership Without Borders (Wiley 2007), Riding the Tiger: Leading through Learning in Turbulent Times (ATD Press 2010), and Leadership Traits Insights for Today, Pathway to the Future (2015). Additionally, he has contributed to three books: Coaching that Counts, The ASTD Leadership Handbook, and Next Generation Corporate Universities, and, he has authored more than 100 articles on learning, leadership, and global culture.

He attended Harvard Business School’s Leading Professional Services Firms program, earned a Master of Science degree in Technology Education from Nova Southeastern University, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from University of Florida.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Our company has been built primarily on referrals from relationships we have had for many years. After living in India for more than seven years, we relocated to San Diego where we did not know very many people so growing in this market has been much slower and resulted in our having clients primarily throughout the U.S. and Asia.

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Nelson Cohen Global Consulting – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
We are known first and foremost for our work with leaders. Helping a leader to assess their current level and set a new bar for their careers, and by extension, life, in a transformed way. Leaders are often moved up the ladder and take with them the unrealistic expectation that this means they will need to do more and have all the answers. We help them identify their specific strengths and then to build their teams that complete the holistic needs of the organization.

Our services include helping set the strategy, comprehensive master level executive coaching and facilitation of learning and development initiatives that may have been identified in the discovery process from diagnostics and meetings with key stakeholders and employees at all levels.

We also help organizations to enhance employee engagement and retention. We do this through culture surveys and by partnering with our clients to implemented initiatives that bring people closer to the organizations and its leaders.

Finally, we provide team building services leveraging our BEST Team Ever process which brings teams small and large together. The team decides the most critical behaviors for success and then through our process, they implement and practice behaviors that bring the team together.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
We primarily work in referral from our large network and the relationships we have with our existing clients. Our goal is not to be the biggest player; it’s to help people to grow their careers, have greater job satisfaction and to learn the tools to maximize relationships in all dimensions of their lives. As we seek to do this, we find ourselves working more and more with start-ups and purpose driven organizations.

Contact Info:

• Address: Nelson Cohen Global Consulting offices in Greater San Diego and the San Francisco Bay areas
  Bodega Bay, CA 94923
• Website: www.nelsoncohen.com
• Phone: 7608159245 or 7608154991
• Email: pris@nelsoncohen.com

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