executive coaching, executive development, executive talent management, leadership coaching, leadership development, executive performance management, organizational effectiveness, organizational development : Dan Coben, Career Management Coach and Advisor to Senior Executives

Dan Coben is a Career Mobility and Transition specialist whose primary focus is senior executives. By arming senior executives with proprietary marketing strategies and tools unavailable to their competition, his program has helped thousands of corporate executives and investment bankers with compensation up to $10MM successfully reposition themselves within their current firms and land new positions with other organizations that fully leverage their strategic vision, organizational mastery and personal gravitas. These strategies and tools include:

When it comes to writing compelling resumes for senior executives that generate interviews and influence hiring decisions, Human Resources managers have called Dan Coben “unmatched in the industry.” The reason his resumes are so effective is because they are not only strong in their content, but strategic in their intent. Dan Coben’s resumes meticulously map the vision and leadership of the senior executive to the goals of prospective companies, and the result is a logical case for a successful match, rather than the usual historical data of generic value and varying relevance.

Resumes are not the best marketing collateral for every situation, particularly entrepreneurial and capital raising opportunities. Dan Coben designed this sophisticated tool which enables Senior Executives and Investment Bankers to quickly build a persuasive business case by strategically positioning facts and creative ideas.

Most successful executives are stymied when it comes to marketing themselves because they don’t precisely know what differentiates them from equally accomplished peers and there is no standardized test that can analyze this critical competitive factor. Dan Coben, once an investigative journalist with two major news networks, conducts penetrating interviews with senior executives that quickly and accurately “reverse engineer” their differentiating factors AND enable them to target and create opportunities where their differentiation positions them alone as “The Best Fit.”

Landing the highest level senior executive jobs requires more than the endorsement of a close circle of colleagues typically generated by networking. Dan Coben offers proven effective business analysis based techniques for strategically creating industry-wide awareness of the senior executive’s importance to his or her field.

Dan Coben’s extensive track record of successfully leading senior executives through career transitions to rewarding new leadership roles resulted in human resources executives at J.P. Morgan Chase dubbing him “The Best in the Business,” a reassuring phrase they often use when introducing Dan to the firm’s senior executives in transition. Since 1987, Dan Coben has been a Senior Practitioner, Program Developer and principal contributor to the prominence of the JPMC 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 the firm’s largest division, who subsequently landed a COO job in a Fortune 300 company, praised him as “a genius” and “a wizard.”

In another recent case, an Executive on Loan to a community non-profit returned to a very changed corporation that didn’t have an open position of sufficient scope and challenge for her. Not satisfied to “coast” in interim roles with familiar colleagues, this African-American SVP worked with Dan Coben who helped her secure a highly visible position with a substantial increase in compensation on the CEO’s management team at a Fortune 10 company.

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 counselors 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."

"Looking internally" requires more finesse than external search and Dan Coben is an expert at coaching executives how to effectively navigate and manage the nuances of this process. He has facilitated the retention of numerous top talent executives by helping them align their talents to satisfying new roles where they can significantly impact the firm’s bottom line.