ELLEN COHEN, J.D., CPCC, PCC is an executive, business, career and wellbeing coach with over 10 years; experience, certified by both CTI (CPCC) and International Coach Federation (PCC) who works with corporate executives and lawyers across many industries to enhance their productivity and effectiveness, build leadership skills, and cultivate wellbeing and resiliency. Her coaching style incorporates scientific/neuroscience-based coaching, emotional intelligence skills and well-being modalities all designed to help her clients stand out.
With 20 years’ experience as an entertainment attorney, Business Affairs attorney and senior executive negotiating high level talent and business deals in film, TV and digital for major studios including Disney, Sony, Microsoft, Fox, and Showtime, Ellen has a particular expertise in working with lawyers both in law firms or in corporate environments including General Counsel, Business/Legal Affairs and Corporate Legal departments to help them and their team/associates (1) build relationships across different internal functions and clients, (2) enhance their ability to be influential, develop a meaningful professional brand and departmental mission statement and (3) cultivate powerful relationships.
Ellen is an enhanced practitioner in Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) which is about the neuroscience of communication and how our interactions impact our neurochemistry. Additionally, she has studied the neuroscience of stress and its impact on performance, leadership, team building, and interpersonal relationships and her programs incorporate this knowledge to improve productivity, effectiveness and job satisfaction. As a result, she has many resources to offer her clients to deepen their own knowledge, develop new skills and explore new behaviors and habits both within their professional and personal lives.
Representative clients include EVP/SVP/VP level corporate executives in many areas from IT to Finance to Sales to Business Development; Attorneys including Partner/executives at major law firms, General Counsel and in-house attorneys; medical professionals including doctors, medical director; and PhDs at such prestigious companies as Latham & Watkins, Boston Scientific, IMAX, Kaiser Permanente, City National Bank, University of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles County Health, The SEC, CVS, BMI and Cap Gemini.
Ellen received her J.D. from Emory University School of Law and a double B.A. from Brandeis University in Philosophy and French Language & Literature. She also admitted to practice law in the state bars of CA, NY, FL & GA. She earned her coaching certification credentials from CTI and was awarded the PCC credential from International Coach Federation (ICF). She is also a 200 hour Certified Meditation Teacher (Unplug Mediation) and a 550 Hr. Certified Yoga instructor (YogaWorks). She is a contributing editor to Attorney At Law Magazine - Los Angeles edition where she writes about executive coaching issues facing attorneys. She is also a member of the ABA Attorney Well-being committee.
You can find out more about Ellen at Ebccoaching.com
Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC
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