Jennifer Cohen, MA

Jennifer Cohen is a senior leadership trainer whose accomplishments range from coaching top managers to achieve outstanding results to being a coach’s coach who trains other consultants. Jennifer’s fresh approach to leadership development is informed by communication theories ranging from quantum physics to philosophy and honed in the practical crucible of over fifteen years of experience coaching hundreds of people.

Her corporate clients have included not only household names like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Boston Consulting Group, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, but also a multimillion dollar oil company, a self-defense school, a major construction company, and several small software development firms.

Jennifer is the founder and Principal of The Center for Meaningful Leadership, a consulting consortium that offers individual and group leadership coaching. At The Center she teaches a unique model of leadership development and is pioneering work in moving organizations and individuals to a partnership model of living and leading.

Working with Jennifer, leaders formulate and implement effective strategies for achieving meaningful goals such as inspiring action or increasing accountability. For example, she helped one client grow her company’s new business income from $3 million to $42 million in a single year, while coaching another client to assume a leadership role to repair the damage done by his CEO and rebuild trust organization-wide.

Jennifer is a coach to the senior coaches at the New Field Group, one of the nation’s top schools for coaching. She is certified as a Master Coach by The Strozzi Institute for Leadership and Mastery, where she studied for more than a decade. Among many other skills, the Institute teaches ways to draw strength from the mind/body connection in building personal and professional leadership competency. Jennifer is also the author of the chapter “From Surviving to Thriving” in the book Being Human at Work, edited by Richard Strozzi Heckler.

Jennifer has been studying the art and science of coaching since 1992, and has taken many training courses on leadership, business development, diversity, performance, and conflict resolution. She has a master’s degree in Applied Psychology with an emphasis on systems theory from the Antioch New England Graduate School, and she did her undergraduate work in philosophy at Oberlin and Barnard.