I’m Howie Cohen. I write about work, leadership, transition, purpose, and the human condition through personal stories, practical frameworks, and honest questions.
You want tools, not opinions—->>maps, not just directions. This blog moves between job-search guidance, layoffs, interviews, career transitions, workplace and leadership observations, communication, personal reflection, and questions about how to live and work with more intention.
Why Cohenovate?
Because advice is not enough when work or life becomes uncertain. People need a way to think, decide, act, and stay connected. The writing here is sometimes practical and sometimes uncomfortable, but it is always grounded in lived questions rather than polished certainty.
What makes this different?
- Practical and personal: Frameworks, questions, templates, and experiments connected to real situations—finding work, preparing for an interview, navigating a transition, deciding what you want, or figuring out what to do next.
- Candid and human: Direct writing about leadership, integrity, grief, service, relationships, distraction, being heard, technology, and the gap between what organizations say and what people experience—without pretending to have every answer.
- Forward motion: This is not only a place to describe what is wrong. It asks what to do next—prepare, make a choice, repair something, set a boundary, listen better, leave, begin again, or stay long enough to learn.
New posts continue to explore work, meaning, connection, and the choices that shape a life.
Read widely, question the assumptions, take what helps, and bring your own experience to the conversation.
