When I interviewed Ed Cohen, he was CLO of Satyam, one of the biggest companies you’ve never heard of (at the time of the interview, 55,000 people in 60 countries around the world). Unless of course you work in the world of corporate training, because Sataym was recognized as the top training and learning and development company by the American Society of Training and Development in 2007.
Ed took the leap to join Satyam in 2005, leaving a safe life in Virginia and heading to a new role and a new life in India. Before that he’d spent more than a quarter century of experience in corporate learning and organizational development, including managing Booz Allen’s training initiatives. Ed’s also the author of Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from World-Class Leaders.

When we talked, Ed was in a Hyderabad taxi – so there’s some fabulous background noise going on as we :

• learn abut the importance of a mentor and a sponsor to help you achieve Great Work
• discuss how to balance the competing needs of different stakeholders
• dig down into metrics – and come up with the importance of “delight” as a key measure

Listen to my interview with Ed Cohen

The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.

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