Serial entrepreneur, business angel, professor, and author of the best-seller “Pre-project excellence: Unleashing the Power of IpOp Model and ISO 56007 for Superior Project Outcomes and Selection”, Raphaël H Cohen is recognized as one of the world’s leading specialists in entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship, leadership, and governance. With over 40,000 copies already distributed, the French, English, and Spanish versions of this book attest to its international success.

His latest book, “Les leviers de l’engagement” (soon to be published in English: “Driving employee engagement”), offers an operational mapping of the levers of fair and caring leadership. It also contains a novel and simple way to measure the leadership level of managers, which induces a paradigm shift in management.

Inventor of the famous IpOp model, which allows for better project calibration at the pre-project stage, he has coached more than 300 intrapreneurial projects since he began boosting innovation capacity within organizations. Thanks to the rigor of his pre-project analysis tools, many companies have improved the success rate of their innovations to better take advantage of technological breakthroughs or new business models. He is considered one of the leading experts in intrapreneurship.

To develop their agility, innovation capacity, or the engagement level of their teams, Raphaël H Cohen advises or has advised many flagship companies such as Airbus, Nestlé, La Poste, Sanofi, and Microsoft. His tools are widely used by industrial organizations, service providers, and even the public sector.

A specialist in executive training, he helps senior managers apprehend complexity with humor. Between 2001 and 2021, he has been the academic director of the “Entrepreneurial Leadership” specialization in the EMBA at the University of Geneva.

He initiated the first entrepreneurship and/or intrapreneurship courses at several prestigious schools such as EPFL. He is the inventor of the Micro MBA/Agility Booster, which leads participants to identify and implement real innovation projects that generate more money than the cost of the training. This pragmatic adaptation of the academic curriculum to the needs of companies increases the agility and innovation skills of their employees as well as their leadership.

An opinion leader on fairness and psychological safety in organizations, he is also highly sought after on issues of governance and humanistic, fair, and caring leadership.

His international career in various industries allows him to have a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary, and intercultural approach; he mentors executives, board members, and managers alike.

He contributes to leading journals such as “Harvard Business Review” and “Forbes.”