Sharon Cohen

A consultant who specializes in branding, strategic marketing and communications; her clients include corporations, media agencies and non-profit organizations.

Previously, Cohen worked at Reebok International for 18 years. She was the corporation’s first woman senior executive. At Reebok, she had two distinguished careers. For eight year, when Reebok was the fastest growing company in the history of U.S. business, she was Global Vice President of Advertising and Corporate Communications. Then, for ten years, she was both Vice President for Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Reebok Human Rights Foundation, a signature project of Reebok ’s of which she was the creator. She initiated and led the world’s first corporate department devoted to business and human rights.

Following Reebok, she was Chief Communications Officer of the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, one of the country’s largest endowed foundations and the only foundation committed to entrepreneurship.

An honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Sharon Cohen has served on the Board of Amnesty International USA and the Social Venture Network. She was a founding board member of Business for Social Responsibility, to which Reebok gave the lead grant to establish a Human Rights section. She was the first chair and is a current board member of Count-Me-In and a board member of Women for Women International. She serves on the Reebok Human Rights Board of Advisors.

Cohen resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her fifteen year old daughter, Sarah.