Paul Magill
Counsel. Teaching. Writing.
Paul Magill
Paul Magill is a former Fortune 50 corporate executive and partner at top-tier consulting firms. He currently runs his consulting firm Cohesive and teaches as an adjunct professor of Strategy at UConn. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of Cambridge.
Experience
IBM
Member of IBM's Senior Management Team. Head of Marketing and Strategy for IBM's Services division and led corporate Marketing/Brand Strategy at IBM HQ.
Abbott Laboratories
Senior Vice President,
Chief Marketing Officer.
President, Abbott Fund.
McKinsey and Monitor
McKinsey Partner. McKinsey Senior Advisor. Faculty for McKinsey Partner University. Monitor Senior Partner.
Counsel
Through Cohesive LLC, Paul helps corporate leaders integrate across functional, unit, geographic, time-horizon and knowledge-domain boundaries. Cohesive Counsel provides direct strategic advisory, Cohesive College develops and teaches methodologies for cross-boundary integration. Both help firms build collective leadership intelligence and create coherent organizational action.
Teaching
Paul teaches executives, consultants, MBAs and undergraduates about Strategy and Governance, Marketing and Growth, Organization and Corporate Center Design, Corporate Identity and Brand, and other topics important to superior performance in the face of digital, geopolitical and AI disruption.
Writing
Paul has published in Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, California Management Review, Deloitte Insights, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Ad Week, and other outlets. Recent writing includes companies' strategic responses to tariff volatility, and S&P 100 firms' governance and oversight mechanisms for AI transformation.
Contact
Independent review, assessment, counsel, education and advisory support for critical initiatives.
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