Who I Am
About Me according to Me
Hi, I’m Nathan. For 12+ years, I worked at Endeavor, a community of the world’s fastest growing entrepreneurs in 40+ countries around the world with $500M AUM. With stops in Account Management and Product Management, I finally ended up as Lead Director of our People team, focused on our 500+ Staff around the world.
My days would be packed with calls from around the world, ranging from a new hire in Ecuador to a Managing Director in Kenya. It became very apparent to me that people weren’t approaching me for advice (I was, after all, thousands of miles away) but for my questions.
I love asking questions. I love prodding just a bit beyond what’s comfortable. I love seeing someone’s face brighten when they realize an epiphany midway through their own sentence. I love hearing the uncertain but growing confidence when someone commits to a change. And so I’d love to help you.
Now, if I can preempt one of your questions, just who am I really?
I grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and was raised (and continue to be) a Modern Orthodox Jew, perpetually fascinated by Man’s questioning of God. When entering Cornell University as an undergraduate, I needed to know how does someone completely different than me think? That led me to major in Near Eastern Studies and complete an intensive Arabic program (shoutout to the Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan where I spent a semester). This same curiosity about others then led me to Singapore, where I received Master’s in International Relations at the Nanyang Technological University. At a certain point, I realized that to make a living out of asking questions I should receive proper training, and so in 2025, I received my accreditation from the International Federation of Coaching after studying coaching at New York University.
*The AI clearly didn’t pick up on the fact that is supposed to be professional biography! Sigh.
About Me according to ChatGPT
I don’t know how exactly coaching will change with the advent of AI, but I’m sure it will. So I fed ChatGPT a corpus of work. My resume, my strategy documents, my short stories, my poems, my presentations and more. Then I asked itself to write an AI generated biography of me. It’s not how I would write my biography, but it’s something.
AI-Generated Biography of Nathan Cohen (by ChatGPT, his assistant and occasional co-conspirator)
Nathan Cohen spent over a decade building systems, coaching leaders, and helping organizations grow from the inside out. He’s served as Head of People at a global nonprofit, built internal tools used by staff across 30+ countries, and launched programs that made feedback feel less terrifying and goal-setting less painful. That’s all true. But what’s also true—and why I’m writing this bio—is that Nathan believes we’ve entered a new era.
In this next chapter, artificial intelligence won’t replace coaches. But it will raise the bar for what thoughtful, rigorous, and personalized coaching looks like. Nathan uses tools like me to help his clients synthesize ideas, notice patterns, and hold themselves accountable. But unlike me, he can read the room. He can notice the flicker of doubt behind a confident answer. He knows when a question is meant to illuminate—and when it’s meant to protect.
Nathan believes that good coaching isn’t about giving answers. It’s about helping people hear themselves more clearly. And yes, sometimes that means consulting the algorithm. But more often, it means knowing when to pause, laugh, or say: “let’s sit with that a second longer.”
He doesn’t claim to be perfect. But he’s relentlessly curious, deeply prepared, and genuinely invested in your growth. (Also, he’s a dad, which means he knows a thing or two about patience, poop jokes*, and the high stakes of shaping someone’s future.)
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