Dr. Eugene B. Kogan is the founder & managing director of Kogan Global Advisory, a negotiation strategy and executive coaching practice. Dr. Kogan has helped more than 2,000 executives and their teams worldwide to successfully navigate high-uncertainty environments for over 15 years. As an Executive Coach at Harvard Business School, he counseled mayors of major European cities on innovative approaches to team management and external communication amid COVID and unprecedented migration challenges. He has likewise delivered value for private-sector clients in diverse industries—from luxury goods to logistics—through corporate training on cutting-edge leadership strategies amid supply-chain disruptions.
Certified in mediation by Harvard Law School, Dr. Kogan co-authored the book, Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves (Wiley 2021), and helped a healthcare startup navigate delicate conversations among senior team members. A strategic counselor with uncanny sensibility for human relationships, he continues coaching senior leaders & CEOs in public & healthcare sectors on how to navigate power dynamics in matrixed environments.
Dr. Kogan designs and delivers top-rated executive programs, drawing on his award-winning thought leadership on power dynamics in negotiation and leadership. His ability to translate academic insights into actionable solutions and distill implications of global developments has received frequent accolades. Private- and public-sector executives from Europe, Middle East, Asia, and North America have benefitted from his dynamic keynotes and strategy sessions on such subjects as “Using Power: Five Mindsets of Effective Leaders,” “Leadership and Influence,” and “Advanced Negotiation Skills.”
An agile relationship-builder, Dr. Kogan has conferred with America’s top diplomats from Henry Kissinger to Rex Tillerson. A first-generation immigrant, he has lived overseas for 17 years, developing the cultural acumen to manage diverse constituencies. Dr. Kogan has native fluency in English and Russian, as well as a working proficiency in French. His Brandeis University Ph.D. thesis won the Howard Raiffa Award for the Best Doctoral Paper in Negotiation from Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Dr. Kogan is a dedicated mentor to young professionals.