Expertise
Four connected domains, one outcome-driven approach.
Raphaël H Cohen is a serial entrepreneur, business angel, professor, and best-selling author recognized as one of the world's leading experts in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, employee engagement, and corporate governance.
Creator of the IpOp Model — a major source of inspiration for the ISO 56007 international standard on managing opportunities and ideas — he has coached more than 300 intrapreneurial projects and helped iconic organizations sharpen their innovation, agility, and engagement.
His work bridges rigorous pre-project analysis, fair and caring leadership, and the structural governance of psychological safety. From 2001 to 2021 he was Academic Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership specialization of the EMBA at the University of Geneva, which named him Academic Fellow.
Areas of Expertise
Pre-project Analysis
- Portfolio selection
- Intrapreneurship
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation validation and governance
- Innovation processes and knowledge management
- Field applications of artificial intelligence
- Project management
- ISO 56007 deployment
Employee Engagement
- Measuring engagement
- Drivers of engagement
- Fair and Caring Leadership
- Team charters
Corporate culture & Governance
- Psychological safety enforcement
- Charter of core principles
- Corporate governance
- Fair enforcement of ethics
- Corporate ethics committee
- Boards of directors
Executive education
- Design and management of MBA programs
- Customized training programs
- IpOp Model training
- Framework of engagement drivers
- Change Management
Industry experience
Functional experience
Academic positions
- Academic Fellow, University of Geneva
- Academic Director (2001–2021), "Entrepreneurial Leadership" specialization of the EMBA, University of Geneva
- Creator of the first entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship programs at EPFL and the University of Geneva
- Faculty across CAS / DAS / MAS and MBA programs at the University of Geneva, ESCP Business School, HEC Paris, and other institutions
- Creator of the MicroMBA / AgilityBooster programs at Romandie Formation