Melissa Cohen

About Melissa Cohen

Collaborative and results-oriented senior leader of transformation initiatives that deliver business value and growth in revenue, profitability, and engagement. Creates winning best-fit solutions that leverage innovative Lean processes, advanced analytics, modern digital systems, high-quality data, and thoughtful change management. Readily overcomes barriers and root cause issues. Skilled at facilitating cross-functional groups to clarify high-value objectives, challenge assumptions, ideate, align, and move from skepticism to excitement. Draws from advanced degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology to build high performing, motivated, and engaged teams and cultures. Passionate about mentoring, teaching, and training. Successful in global public and private organizations from small to Fortune 500. Demonstrated versatility in viewing business and people decisions through the lenses of both the forest and the trees. Core Competencies: Leadership • Process Transformation • Change Management • Lean • Agile • Process Mining • Automation • Robotic Process Automation (RPA) • Data Analytics • Master Data Management • Innovation • Team Leadership • Group Facilitation • Employee Engagement • Statistics and Modeling • Data Governance • Research Methods • Survey Design, Deployment, Analysis • Operational Restructuring • Contract Negotiation • Vendor and Software Relationships • Mergers and Acquisitions Integrations • Budget Management • Consulting • Workplace Psychology • Interviewing • Client Management • Executive Level Presentations • Project Management • Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching, TrainingMinneapolis Skyline Photo Credit: By Bobak Ha\'Eri - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43•••18

Experience

1. Senior Director, Process Transformation

   nVent

   Jan 2023 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

Education

• Bowling Green State University

  M.A., Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology

• The George Washington University

  B.A., Psychology

Skills

• Marketing
• Database Marketing
• Crm
• Business Development
• Market Research
• Loyalty Marketing
• Strategy
• Spss
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Sas
• Customer Insight
• Executive Level Presentation Skills
• Quantitative Research
• Leadership
• Surveymonkey
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Data Analysis
• Segmentation
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership
• Survey Research
• Statistics
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• New Business Development
• Analytics