ABOUT ALLAN COX
Corporate Advisor, Author

Allan Cox is a CEO-Top Team-Board advisor. His work supports CEOs serving as catalysts for trust and candor between their top teams and boards. His process uncovers sensitive issues and generates superior options for action.

Allan began his career in executive search and executive assessment, serving on the management committee of Spencer Stuart & Associates—then the largest search firm in the world. In 1969, he founded the practice that bears his name. During the past 30+ years, Allan has provided invaluable support and development to corporate leaders throughout the United States. His work focuses on corporate alignment: (1) counseling CEOs and direct reports, (2) facilitating top management/board retreats, and (3) helping articulate corporate purpose, uniqueness and method.

Allan is the author of seven books ranging from the pioneering Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter in 1973 to Redefining Corporate Soul: Linking Purpose & People in 1996. He has written a series for the New York Times Sunday business section and Field Newspaper syndicate; articles for Chief Executive, Across the Board, Industry Week, Training & Development Journal, Success, Advertising Age and various airline magazines. From 1986 to 1988 he wrote a weekly column for Los Angeles Times Syndicate entitled “The Achiever.” His 1990 book on teamwork—Straight Talk for Monday Morning—led to a four-part video series produced by the Bureau of Business Practice—Straight Talk on Teams.

Allan Cox’s Service on Boards, Committees, Workshops

Board Chairman of Chicago’s Center for Ethics & Corporate Policy—5 years

Chairman of Amateur Baseball Incorporated—a not-for-profit—directing all-star tournament activities for nearly 60% of American youth playing organized baseball—6 years

Adjunct staff at the Center for Creative Leadership

Leader of career development workshops for the graduate business schools at Wharton,
University of Chicago and Northwestern

Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Divinity School—from 1996 to 2005

Lecturer to classes at University of California San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Member of The Corporate Directors Forum, National Association of Corporate Directors

Board Member of three private companies

 

Allan Cox on a business panel at the October 2006 Forum 2000 in Prague
with Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell.