Meet Ivy Cohen, President and CEO, Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications
Ivy has spent 20+ years advising companies and executives on how to build their reputations. An accomplished executive and small business owner, and a results-oriented community leader, Ivy creates big ideas and gets outsized results for her clients.
She has worked with companies like Procter & Gamble, DHL, Western Union, J.D. Power and Associates, NFL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Digitas Health, Danone, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Healthline, Noodle.org, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Wells Fargo, and Kaplan Higher Education. Ivy is a sought-after speaker and moderator who has presented before the P&G Alumni Association, the National Football League, Super Bowl XLVIII Business Connect, and numerous business and civic audiences including at the White House. For 10 years Ivy served as CEO of the nation’s most prominent youth empowerment and drug abuse prevention organization, "Just Say No" International.
Throughout her career, Ivy has advised and engaged management teams to devise strategies for anticipating and responding to situations that can disrupt their operations, put their brands at risk or damage organization and executive reputations. Her crisis communications and issues management work has involved multi-national corporations as well as organizations in the shipping and logistics, anti-terrorism, higher education and disaster relief sectors.
Ivy is a published author in Entrepreneur.com, MediaPost, Advertising Week and through her own newsletter, Marketing Coach. Ivy is the communications expert cited in Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong’s premier business school textbook, Principles of Marketing, now in its 18th edition. She is cited in “Reducing Aftershocks and Managing the Message” in the business book, What to Do When Things Go Wrong, by Frank Supovitz (McGraw Hill Education, 2019). She is featured in MSNBC Host JJ Ramberg’s It's YOUR Business: 183 Tips That Will Transform Your Small Business (Business Plus, 2012).
As a civic leader Ivy’s involvements have included the University of California (Legislative Relations Committee); YouthBridge-New York, greater New York’s premier youth diversity program; San Francisco Bay Area World Trade Center; Health 2.0 NYC; Renaissance Weekend, and UJA-Federation of New York. She received YouthBridge-New York’s Community Service Award in 2012. Her work was recognized by PENCIL with its 2009 Innovative Partnership Award for her collaboration with P.S. 247 to create the groundbreaking College Partnership Program™ for an elementary school in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood. Ivy was named to Crain’s 2021 Notable Women Business Owners List in May 2021, in tandem with Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications’ 20th anniversary.
Ivy holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Georgetown University.
She has worked with companies like Procter & Gamble, DHL, Western Union, J.D. Power and Associates, NFL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Digitas Health, Danone, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Healthline, Noodle.org, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Wells Fargo, and Kaplan Higher Education. Ivy is a sought-after speaker and moderator who has presented before the P&G Alumni Association, the National Football League, Super Bowl XLVIII Business Connect, and numerous business and civic audiences including at the White House. For 10 years Ivy served as CEO of the nation’s most prominent youth empowerment and drug abuse prevention organization, "Just Say No" International.
Throughout her career, Ivy has advised and engaged management teams to devise strategies for anticipating and responding to situations that can disrupt their operations, put their brands at risk or damage organization and executive reputations. Her crisis communications and issues management work has involved multi-national corporations as well as organizations in the shipping and logistics, anti-terrorism, higher education and disaster relief sectors.
Ivy is a published author in Entrepreneur.com, MediaPost, Advertising Week and through her own newsletter, Marketing Coach. Ivy is the communications expert cited in Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong’s premier business school textbook, Principles of Marketing, now in its 18th edition. She is cited in “Reducing Aftershocks and Managing the Message” in the business book, What to Do When Things Go Wrong, by Frank Supovitz (McGraw Hill Education, 2019). She is featured in MSNBC Host JJ Ramberg’s It's YOUR Business: 183 Tips That Will Transform Your Small Business (Business Plus, 2012).
As a civic leader Ivy’s involvements have included the University of California (Legislative Relations Committee); YouthBridge-New York, greater New York’s premier youth diversity program; San Francisco Bay Area World Trade Center; Health 2.0 NYC; Renaissance Weekend, and UJA-Federation of New York. She received YouthBridge-New York’s Community Service Award in 2012. Her work was recognized by PENCIL with its 2009 Innovative Partnership Award for her collaboration with P.S. 247 to create the groundbreaking College Partnership Program™ for an elementary school in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood. Ivy was named to Crain’s 2021 Notable Women Business Owners List in May 2021, in tandem with Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications’ 20th anniversary.
Ivy holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Georgetown University.
