Dan Coben is an Executive Coach and Career Management Advisor who has enabled literally thousands of corporate executives and investment bankers to significantly increase their impact on the bottom line, transform organizations and attain superior leadership roles following successes as well as setbacks. Since 1987, Mr. Coben has been a principal contributor to the prominence of the J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Career Center, described by The American Banker as “the benchmark” and an “Exemplar of Excellence” in HR Programs.

What makes Dan Coben so effective is his understanding of the special needs and temperament of senior executives, coupled with his ability to quickly grasp and productively engage their unique personalities and drivers. His intellectual agility, strategic creativity and goal-oriented efficiency quickly win the confidence of senior executives eager to move forward. After his first session with Dan Coben, the head of JPMC’s largest division praised him as “a genius” and “a wizard.”

Dan’s track record is one of increasing profitability and retaining diverse top talent by creating individually tailored career advancement programs that optimize the executive’s performance, initiative, innovation, leadership, visibility and promotability as a corollary of aligning their unique strengths toward immediate revenue-generation and profit-enhancement goals.

Examples:

• Coached Managing Director with valuable proprietary technology expertise to change his “abrasive” reputation and win support for his improved business model. As a result, he increased net profitability $55MM in his department, was awarded a significant increase in compensation and chose to stay with the firm.

• Coached bright but modest Asian woman passed over for promotion to generate $25MM in new revenues over six months by developing leadership presence needed to pioneer and execute on initiatives that cross leveraged credit and hedge fund products. As a result, she was promoted to Managing Director and chose to stay with the firm.

• Coached Managing Director of a large financial reporting and regulatory compliance function in leadership strategies and tactics that enabled him to transform two warring factions of merger survivors into a cohesive, focused and productive team. As a result, he received a significant performance bonus and chose to stay with the firm.

• Coached key executives of the bank’s market leading Global Credit Derivatives business to compete for more top tier industry positions by showing them how to communicate financial drivers and operational goals to their reports in actionable ways that facilitated measurable results. Worked closely with managers to perform "deep-dive" assessment and co-facilitated meetings on objectives to ensure proper execution.

Mr. Coben has increased retention of human capital by providing talent with numerous innovative and actionable Internal Mobility Technologies they can use to advance their careers from within their current job, including:

• Reverse Engineering: Identifying self-motivated solution-providing strengths so they can be strategically leveraged toward immediate business opportunities.

• Business Analysis Techniques for Winning Office Allies: Comfortably building a network of supportive internal contacts via unselfish pursuit of enhancing the firm’s growth and profitability.

• Personal Initiative Pitchbooks: An unconventional tool to build a persuasive business case for initiatives by strategically positioning facts and creative ideas.

As co-architect, principal content developer and senior coach of the J.P. Morgan Chase Career Advancement Program (CAP), Mr. Coben spearheaded a performance management program that increased retention of women and minority investment bank analysts and associates from 50 to 93 percent and saved $15MM annually by using a business-based, employee-driven approach. He won buy-in of senior line and HR managers by presenting a business case proving the program’s ROI would exponentially exceed its costs. Early success led to revenue generating, profit enhancing, talent retaining engagements firm-wide.

Dan Coben’s work as a consultant with several of the world’s largest career management firms gave him a breadth of experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies (including AT&T, General Electric, General Motors, IBM, and Mobil) that complements his depth of expertise in Financial Services.

He is one of only eleven career management consultants in the United States recommended by the Yale University School of Management to its MBA alumni. His observations on career issues have been published in TIME Magazine and The New York Times. Dan Coben’s  writing was recently honored by the largest newspaper in New Jersey, The Star-Ledger, which selected him for its “Silver Pen Award.”

Formerly an ABC and CBS News Reporter, Dan Coben holds two degrees with honors from New York University, has completed all coursework toward a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Seton Hall University and completed extensive postgraduate Leadership and Organizational Psychology studies at Columbia University, earning a 4.0 GPA in both programs.

Dan Coben is a charter member of the Association of Career Professionals International and belongs to the Society for Human Resource Management.