Barbara Cohen-Hon
Senior Consultant
Barbara Cohen-Hon has lived and breathed career development & management for over 25 years as an HR Executive and Coach guiding organizations to identify and then get the best from their talent by helping employees unearth and leverage their unique value. She has a passion for empowering and mentoring others, helping people discover their talents, give a voice to this understanding, define goals and plans to advance their careers and reach their potential. Her broad business background in economics and finance and her extensive experience in HR is the foundation upon which she has successfully built credible, effective and impactful relationships with a diverse group of business leaders, managers and professionals. She has coached and advised on HR strategies, leadership and managerial development, and career management issues. She has provided guidance and direction on change initiatives and organizational transitions primarily in financial services, publishing, media and the communications industries.
Barbara began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank where she was nominated to a selective Management & Executive leadership training program and spent 7 years taking on diverse management roles. This is where she was first exposed to HR and spent the next 8 years at Fleet Bank, formerly National Westminster Bank, in a Senior HR Business Partner role managing a team of 30 and covering a large client base. She and her team were tasked as part of the bank merger, to take their clients through a major cultural shift and transformation, to become a more performance-driven, customer-driven and market-driven organization. After leaving Fleet Bank she built a consulting practice providing HR support to organizations focused on building and developing improved performance management, talent acquisition and talent management programs.
Barbara returned from graduate school with a major in Counseling and a focus in career exploration, development and management; and career transition. She has worked with a variety of behavioral and performance assessment tools to help individuals achieve greater self-awareness -- avoiding career derailers and leveraging strengths and interests to meet their career needs. She has worked with individuals to explore and assess career strengths and interests; to build marketing communication plans for self-promotion; to develop job search strategies, and strengthen resumes, interviewing and negotiation skills.
Barbara is active in the community sharing knowledge with young people and is currently a Pro Bono Coach with the National Urban Fellows (NUF), an organization with a great history and dedicated to developing leaders and change agents.
EDUCATION:
MSEd in Counseling/focus in Career Theory, Development and Management, Fordham University, 2006
B.A. in Economics, SUNY Stony Brook
