Dr. Susanne Cohen has been selected to be the 2017 recipient of the Invisible Disabilities® Association Founders Award. She has been chosen based upon her personal involvement with IDA’s founder as a strategic advisor and personal mentor and as an IDA advisory board member. Dr. Cohen’s insightful business acumen and expertise in marketing and leadership have been invaluable resources to many including IDA.
Dr. Cohen is committed to contributing to companies and individuals by helping them resolve their greatest challenges. She is a high-energy, results-oriented executive with an innovative, forensic approach to business. She drives change management and the operational efficiencies necessary to grow companies.
Dr. Cohen is the CEO of The Cohen Group and is a corporate and employee performance expert. The Cohen Group’s Corporate Performance Program guides employees and their teams to work better and smarter using a sustainable, repeatable and measurable methodology, This results in an increase in a company’s bottom line.
The Cohen Group Corporate Performance Program includes two half-day, interactive, transformational seminars and an implementation and follow-up support program that resolve the top 4 causes of poor employee performance, which include ineffective communication, poor listening, the absence of motivation and a lack of teamwork, all of which can devastate a company’s bottom line.
The Program is relevant across all business industries, including for-profits, non-profits, education and governmental agencies.
A gifted speaker and company spokesperson, Dr. Cohen has appeared as a guest expert on numerous national television shows such as The Today Show, The View, Fox News, The Apprentice and more. She has also been featured in hundreds of local and regional television and radio interviews, and local, regional and national newspaper and magazine articles, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and O Magazine.
Dr. Cohen is the past CEO of a consumer packaged goods (CPG) pharmaceutical company, where she led all strategic planning, organizational development and operations from start up through national retail distribution in over 60,000 stores. Under her leadership, the company achieved a 15-year compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% per year.
A common thread among all of Dr. Cohen’s successes has been the development and implementation of distinctive, proven processes, driven by a sustainable, repeatable methodology.
Dr. Cohen remains committed to having a significant and positive impact on businesses.