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Career Coach Earns Credentials from International Coach Federation

Coaching is a professional partnership which assists clients in achieving more fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Cohen is the founder of Julie Cohen Coaching which specializes in helping clients achieve greater career satisfaction.

Cohen, formerly an internal executive coach with Cap Gemini Ernst &, Young U.S. LLC, a professional IT services and consulting firm, received her credentials from the International Coach Federation, the worlds largest non-profit professional association of personal and business coaches. ICF establishes professional standards and defines and supports ethics within the coaching profession. Coaching is a professional partnership which assists clients in achieving more fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. To earn the PCC designation, Cohen had to, among other requirements, complete 750 hours of client coaching, 125 hours of coach-specific training and pass written and oral exams.

Cohen, immediate past president of the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance, a regional chapter of the International Coach Federation, is the founder of Julie Cohen Coaching which specializes in helping clients gain greater career satisfaction.

Before she became a coach, Cohen was a career counselor in the undergraduate program of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where she worked with students and alumni on job-search strategies and, with corporations, on recruitment strategies. As a university administrator, she also provided personal counseling and staff training, development and supervision. Cohen also worked as a career development specialist, assisting employees in surpassing career goals, negotiating complex corporate structures and managing workplace conflict.

Cohen holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree in counseling from Villanova University. She also completed training programs from Corporate Coach University International and Coach University headquartered in Colorado.