Roy Cohen specializes in the delivery of career services primarily to senior and mid level executives. He has worked extensively with clients from diverse industries. For over 10 years, he also served as the sole "in-house" career and outplacement counselor to Goldman Sachs, one of the world's leading global financial services organizations.
Mr. Cohen maintains an active private practice for both individuals and corporations in the areas of career management, executive coaching and leadership development. He has been a guest speaker at numerous events and organizations, including the Yale Club, various business school alumni groups (Wharton, Chicago, Columbia, etc), the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Financial Executives Institute, Wall Street Rising, the Financial Women's Association, and he has been a featured speaker at the “Women on Wall Street” annual conference.
Mr. Cohen has been quoted often in the press (Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Money Magazine, New York Times, Newsday, US News, Crain’s, etc), and he has appeared on the Today Show, CNN American Morning, World News Tonight and Fox Five News. His book, The Wall Street Professional’s Survival Guide, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2010 (FT Press, an imprint of Pearson). He is a long-standing adjunct faculty member at New York University where he currently teaches in a program to train executive coaches, he is a faculty member for Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Program, and he has also taught at the New School University. Mr. Cohen holds an MBA from Columbia, a master’s in counseling from Colgate and an undergraduate degree from Cornell.