An executive operating partner for founders, CEOs, boards, and leadership teams navigating growth, transformation, fundraising, modernization, and organizational change.
For four decades, Team Impakt has helped companies navigate the messy middle where new technology collides with old workflows, leadership structures, and very human organizational behavior.
Different technologies. Same recurring challenge: turning change into execution before complexity turns into paralysis.
Team Impakt is my operating practice for organizations facing growth pressure, transformation, leadership gaps, or systems that no longer match reality.
Sometimes the issue is technology. More often it’s workflow. Communication. Accountability. Decision-making. Teams optimizing for different outcomes while pretending otherwise in status meetings.
Technology usually just exposes the problem faster.
Building companies before they look like companies.
For founders who need an operator in the room — not another advisor on the cap table. From sketch to investable company.
Scaling without breaking.
When revenue outruns systems, hiring, and the org chart, we rebuild the operation underneath the growth.
Leading mission-critical change.
Modernization, platform replacement, restructuring — the change that fails quietly unless someone owns execution.
An embedded member of your leadership team.
Interim COO, CIO, CMO, CPO, or Chief of Staff — stepping in to run the thing while the seat is empty or overloaded.
I’ve spent most of my career inside moments where industries were reorganizing themselves.
Political campaigns adapting to the internet, where messaging cycles collapsed from days to minutes and communication became infrastructure instead of just media buying.
Media companies learning streaming. Retailers becoming ecommerce businesses. Asia shifting to mobile-first economies. Public companies modernizing operations. Governments navigating sovereignty and digital infrastructure. Healthcare organizations rebuilding around interoperability and compliance. AI reshaping how organizations communicate, operate, and make decisions.
The pattern repeats more often than people think.
New technology arrives. Organizations underestimate the operational change required. Complexity accumulates. Teams compensate manually. Meetings multiply. Momentum slows.
Then somebody finally admits the issue is no longer the software. That’s usually when Team Impakt gets the call.
Not strategy. Not presentations. Organizations.
Most organizations do not fail because people are unintelligent. They fail because smart people build systems nobody can navigate anymore.
Priorities drift. Teams optimize for different outcomes. Reporting structures calcify. Meetings multiply. Decision-making slows to the speed of committee survival. Technology usually just exposes the problem faster.
Technology changes systems. Communication changes behavior. Organizations usually need both.
Team Impakt doesn’t maintain a bench of junior consultants. We assemble experienced operators who’ve actually built products, raised capital, led transformations, scaled companies, and navigated complex change.
Every engagement is led personally by Brent Cohen and supported by specialists chosen for the specific challenge — relationships built over forty years of actually doing the work.
You stop collecting contacts and start collecting people you trust under pressure.
I’ve built my career where media, technology, and leadership collide — places where the stakes are high, the rules are unclear, and the outcome matters.
I’m a four-time founder who takes ideas from sketch to scale. At Realtor.com, I helped turn a rough prototype into one of the internet’s most-visited destinations and took it public. In Beijing, I built Lycos’ Asia-Pacific business into a $120M operation across seven countries. I led the turnaround of ReachLocal’s SaaS platform before its sale. At B1, I’m building an AI-native platform helping governments modernize secure communication with sovereignty at the center.
Before all of that, I spent a decade in political strategy — hundreds of campaigns, 600+ television ads — during the shift from broadcast to the early internet. Along the way I’ve worked for three U.S. Presidents and a Pope. Just the one Pope.
I’m an operator at heart. I rebuild teams, tighten roadmaps, cut time-to-market, and deliver growth — in environments where execution determines survival.
My approach is simple: define what winning looks like, build the system, deliver.
“Brent Cohen is an outstanding worker. His immense knowledge and experience make him a valuable asset to any team. He gives his all to the projects he works on and you can tell he loves the work he does. I have had the fortune to work with him in the scrappy setting of a startup and you can tell you are working with a real pro when Brent is on your team.”
“I went to Brent looking for help to refine my marketing message and funding pitch. Instead of feeding me, he taught me how to fish through multiple iterative sessions of brainstorming, coaching, and hypothesis testing. At the end of the engagement, I acquired the skills to think critically outside my engineer mindset from a customer point of view.”
“Brent has the knowledge, experience, and energy of an entire marketing team and a product team. Our work together revealed not only his big-picture thinking, but his ability to tell a story within which even highly technical details fit naturally and clearly.”
No discovery sprint. No homework assignment. No innovation theater.
Just a candid discussion about the organization, the pressure points, the constraints, and whether having experienced operators in the room would materially help.
Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is "you don't need consultants, you need fewer meetings." Both outcomes are useful.
