Stu Cohen
STU COHEN is Vice President, Business Development and Consultant for Linkage. Stu’s career spans over 30 years, primarily with Fortune 500 companies.
Beginning his career in Sales, he spent ten years with Southern New England Telephone Co, (AT&T). As a Major Account Manager in their Professional Services division, his focus was on providing business solutions to C-suite level clients. While at AT&T, Stu made a career change when he was selected to become a member of a newly created organizational development team. He has spent the past 15 years honing his skills in this area.
A highly skilled executive coach and facilitator, Stu joined Oxford Health Plans, (now United Healthcare), where he lead the design, development and implementation of Oxford University, providing talent development through the Schools of General Studies, Management, and Leadership. While at Oxford, Stu served as executive coach to the senior leadership team as well as managers and leaders throughout the organization.
Prior to joining Linkage, Stu was with CIGNA Corporation where he was instrumental in leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive, assessment based talent and leadership development process for the global distribution team. CIGNA University was recognized by both ASTD and the Corporate University Xchange with awards for excellence in leadership development in 2008 & 2009.
Stu has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on topics ranging from team development and competency based performance management, leadership and management skills, and building a world class distribution organization. Since 2000, he has served as an executive coach and learning team leader at The Global Institute for Leadership Development. In 2007, he was a contributing author for an article on Consumer Driven Healthcare and its impact on American Culture.