Like An Olympian: Dream, Train, Compete


It starts with a dream. You’ve had a brilliant idea that pushes boundaries and can elevate a product or service to new heights. You’ve made sure, beyond the initial burst of inspiration, that your idea is not too similar to other campaigns. But even then, though you have lofty goals for your campaign, are you motivated enough to bring it to fruition? What would an Olympian do?

Ivy Cohen Climbs Life's Mountains: The Darryl Mobley Show


In today’s episode of The Darryl Mobley Show – Mountain Climbers edition, you'll meet Ivy Cohen. Ivy is CEO of Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications. During Ivy’s careers, she has climbed several unconventional professional mountains, with leadership roles in the corporate world, as an entrepreneur, as CEO of a major national nonprofit, and as a public policy advocate in our nation’s capital. Along the way, she has cultivated a unique perspective on how organizations work, leaders think, and successful managers mobilize others. Most impressive, is Ivy’s bold perspective on this mountain we call life.

Listen to the full podcast here.

The Daunting CEO Agenda: What it Means for Communications by Ivy Cohen


For quite a while we’ve lived in a society where change is the most anticipated constant. Today we are experiencing change at the speed of AI, which means that real-time has just gone to warp speed. So, how can one lead an organization with so much uncertainty?

Not the Same Story – AGAIN! by Ivy Cohen


Writing new thought leadership articles on widely covered issues can be challenging. But when done in a way that establishes your unique voice, it offers the opportunity to gain visibility and recognition among your target audience, peers, and stakeholders. In a landscape saturated with discussions about important issues like AI in the workplace, sustainability initiatives, and DEI there’s an opportunity to move beyond surface-level conversations and delve into viewpoints that challenge the status quo.

YouthBridge-NY's 2024 Cohort


Ivy conducts her annual workshop on "Strategic Communications to Diverse Audiences" to YouthBridge-NY’s 2024 cohort. These teens were fully engaged and wonderfully strategic and creative.

Ivy Cohen Contributes to MM&M's "2024 Predictions From Leaders of Medical Marketing Agencies"


As the public trust for institutions continues its downward slide, successful marketers will develop more localized strategies to educate and offer solutions. - Ivy Cohen

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O'Dwyer's PR News, Managing Crises in An Era of Polarization


As leaders and as communicators, we often must resolve situations arising from conflicting opinions. Sometimes they are small transactional matters and other times they are significant conflicts, internally or externally, that impact our brand or issue.

Ivy moderates Disruptive Technologists - ChatGPT Event: The Good, the Bad, and Generative AI - at Microsoft NYC


Disruptive Technologists - ChatGPT Event: The Good, the Bad, and Generative AI - at Microsoft NYC on June 27, 2023. Experts converse on the good and not so good in generative AI.

PANEL Esther Dyson, founder, Wellville, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, founder/CEO, Verneek, Adam Bly, founder/CEO, System, Rushil Vora, product manager, Microsoft

Watch the full discussion here.

O'Dwyer's PR News, Today's Leadership Playbook: Humanize Communications


Join Ivy Cohen and Researchscape International's Tony Cheevers for a discussion on how the work and consumer environment has become more emotional and how this impacts communications strategies and messaging. The talk will include what leaders must do today – substance and style -- to be taken seriously and to engage employees, customers and all stakeholders to build on their organization's visions, missions and business plans.

Watch the full discussion here.

Tina Turner: A Communicator's Inspiration by Ivy Cohen


Raw. Ageless. That Voice! Legs. Gorgeous. Rock ‘n' roll. Daring advocate and inspiration. As the light on the life that was Tina Turner has dimmed, we can’t help carry heavy hearts. There’s no question that this powerhouse performer left an indelible mark on all who encountered her and her music. Tina inspired us with her strength to exit an abusive relationship, and her tenacity to launch a meteoric solo career. Moreover, she was an amazing communicator.

The Modern CEO is Fit, Social and Engaging by Ivy Cohen


CEOs express many different styles and cultures. As I peruse the landscape of today’s top executives, I find there is a growing and distinct group that presents as a new Modern CEO. This is the CEO whose professional and personal life reflect the characteristics of younger generations of employees and customers – regardless of his or her age. It is someone who is a trendsetter or early adopter. This leader is not locked into traditional or established ways of doing and looking at things. It’s someone who experiences and understands what is buzzing in the marketplace.

Come Away to Faraway by Ivy Cohen


Healthcare Marketer’s Exchange shared a story on my love of alpacas and Layla. Find out how you may visit Faraway Farm Alpacas.

Media Post: Corporate Silence Is Far From Golden by Ivy Cohen


When a sensitive situation unfolds, many managers opt to limit communications to their inner circle. They fear that providing partial information in a rapidly developing environment will confuse and unsettle their wider group of stakeholders. They don’t manage expectations, and they’re not transparent. The result? Employees, customers and shareholders are left to imagine the worst.

Media Post, The Marketing Insider: Optics Matter by Ivy Cohen


Optics: How an event or action is perceived. For business, optics refers to actions, policies and decisions that shape attitudes toward the company.

California State University Fullerton: Communications Week


Ivy presents on the role of communication in the workplace.

Advertising Week: Brands Navigating the Ukraine Crisis by Ivy Cohen


As blue and yellow are sprinkled across social media and in public and private spaces around the world, many seek to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people as Russia’s incursion into this sovereign nation is destroying lives and property daily.

PM360: How Can Life Sciences Communicators Improve Industry Trust and Perception?


Ivy Cohen featured as a leading expert on the pharmaceutical industry’s pandemic communication strategy.

Crain's - Readers Weigh In: Companies Embracing Hybrid Work Models (see Ivy’s commentary)


A recent Crain's reader survey found that many in New York's business world are cautiously venturing out to conferences and networking events, or their desk at the office. But a great deal of economic activity is still taking place in the cloud. Ivy Cohen, owner of a communications firm, attended her first in-person business event since March 2020: the annual Advertising Week conference at Hudson Yards.

Crisis Communications Class at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University


Ivy conducts an MBA class on crisis communications at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. She and the students engaged in a vigorous discussion about making companies resilient and managing risk. The role of purpose and social media were strong interests of the class.

Ivy Cohen Named Crain's Notable Women Business Owner 2021


With its list of Notable Women Business Owners, Crain’s recognizes those who have forged their career paths and, in turn, powered the city’s economy. The accomplishments of the women on these pages mirror a commitment by the city to support women-owned businesses. The Department of Small Business Services, for example, created Women Entrepreneurs NYC, an initiative that enables women to start and grow businesses.

Ivy moderates Disruptive Technologists’ panel The Disruptive Power of Quantum Computing


Panelists: Mark Mattingley-Scott, General Manager EMEA for Quantum Brilliance, 30+ years at IBM Petra Söderling, Senior Advisor, Digital Technologies, Senior Advisor to the Finnish government’s innovation funding agency Danika Hannon, Relationship Manager with Cambridge Quantum Computing, Deputy Head and IQSD Chair for the Quantum Strategy Institute Frank La Vigne, Principal Solutions Architect at Koverse
Moderated by Ivy Cohen, President, Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications

McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University


Ivy speaks with two business school classes about entrepreneurship and values with Professor Jeff Reid at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Ivy moderated "What’s Next in Sustainability? Renewable Energy Tech and Markets" for UC Berkeley’s alumni community Cal Alumni NY Chapter, March 18, 2021 with an esteemed panel of Cal faculty and alumni.


Panelists: Severin Borenstein, Ph.D., E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas Nkiruka Avila, Ph.D., Expert Engineer, PG&E Jonathan Colby, Director of Technology Performance, Verdant Power
Moderated by Ivy Cohen, President, Ivy Cohen Corporate Communications

YouthBridge-NY Workshop


Ivy leads her annual YouthBridge-NY workshop on Strategic Communication to Diverse Audiences. These teen leaders from all 5 boroughs are amazing!

Ivy moderates panel on AI & Data in CPG for Dashmote at the Consulate of The Netherlands


Ivy was delighted to moderate this Dashmote panel on AI and Data in CPG with top talent: Jeff Reine (The Coca-Cola Company), Maciej Szczepaniak (Google), Jason Schmidt (Condé Nast) and Dennis Tan (Dashmote). This event was possible thanks to the hospitality of the Consulate of The Netherlands and a fabulous group of marketers, entrepreneurs, investors and tech innovators!

Frederick Douglass High School Students Take A Stand For Healthier Lunches In Harlem


This class advocacy project was facilitated by our own Ivy Cohen, who taught workshops and worked with the students from early in the semester until their presentation and conversation with their principal and again the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem leadership.

Ivy lectures on change management communications at The New School, Milano School of Management.


Dean Latha Poonamalee and her graduate students engaged with Ivy in a riveting conversation about handling experiences they are experiencing their organizations, as well as preparing for increasing the value of the work that communications professionals contribute to changes large and small.

Columbia University Graduate School


Ivy teaches class on reputation management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Strategic Communications.


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