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SHEM COHEN is an Organization Development consultant with over 10 years experience helping organizations create exceptional outcomes. Mr. Cohen’s expertise in human and organizational systems helps clients bring the right people together, make tough decisions, and implement results-driven change. His natural people skills and competencies in strategic planning, dialogue and innovation offers organizations opportunities to create direction and alignment, handle their most pressing issues, and mobilize their fullest human potential.

As a facilitator and trainer, Shem has worked in the US, Canada and Asia, custom-designing large and small-group meetings, trainings and action-learning events. He has worked with all levels of management and front-line employees in global and local businesses, non-profit organizations, and education.

Whether helping individuals and teams clarify and reach their goals, restructuring to improve processes or affecting planned change, Shem partners with clients to architect the experiences, dialogues and learning needed to create value. The methods he employs - founded in sound Organization Development principles - enables clients to generate the quality solutions and commitments required to achieve their desired levels of high performance.

Shem holds a Masters Degree in Organization Development from American University and NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. He is a certified Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), trained Future Search consultant, and qualified facilitator/trainer in Dialogue through the Public Dialogue Consortium.

Shem lives in Albany N.Y. with his lovely wife and two wonderful children.

Consulting Experience includes (partial listing): The United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations; Church and Dwight; Soros Fund Management; JP Morgan Chase; Marriott; Medrex, Ltd; AmeriBag Inc.; Towers Perrin; Pratt and Whitney; Singapore National Employers Federation; Rural Opportunities Inc.; Goldman Sachs; Xerox Corporation; Civil Service Employees Assoc.; Chubb Insurance; North Country Behavioral Healthcare Network; Lucent Technologies; and Compaq.

Summary: Organization Development Consultant 1993-present
Projects have included partnering with clients to plan and implement organizational change; visioning and strategic planning; consultative interventions to help align people, goals, and strategies; improve work-flow systems (process re-design), work-climate and/or professional relationships; executive coaching; and design/delivery of experiential trainings, workshops and team building events.
Specialty in custom-design and facilitation of large-system strategic planning and dialogue events, bringing the ‘whole system’ into the room to deeply explore strategic issues/concerns, create common ground for desired futures, and take aligned, concerted actions with unusual levels of high commitment.

Strategic Planning Services:

• Create tailored planning models and development projects, co-designed with leaders to explore key strategic issues, identify priorities, develop organizational capabilities, proactively develop desired value sets and culture, and position the organization to achieve critical goals.


• SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), subsequent strategy development/implementation.


• Scenario Planning


• Balanced Scorecard


• Future Search Technology


• Open Space technology


• Competitive Analysis


• Market/Customer Segmentation

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