Philip Berry

Philip Berry

Philip Berry

Helping leaders and their teams move from where they are now to a higher level of impact.

About Philip Berry

Philip Berry working in his office
About Philip

Being better than you believe

Philip works on excellence in the global workplace. His depth is in cross cultural talent development, diversity and inclusion, executive coaching and personal branding.

He built that depth in senior roles at Colgate Palmolive, the Clinton Foundation, Procter and Gamble, Digital Equipment Corporation and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, and has run organizational programmes in more than sixty countries.

  • MBA, Xavier UniversityBusiness administration
  • MS, Columbia UniversitySocial work
  • BA, Queens CollegeBachelor's degree
  • AA, Manhattan Community CollegeAssociate degree
  • Certified Coach, ICFAlso a certified minority supplier

By the numbers

The record

Reach and output

60

Countries

41

Client organizations

6

Published articles

1

Published book
What he does

Six areas of practice

Six connected ways of working with leaders and their organizations.

Executive coaching and personal branding

Be the architect of your own career. Leaders build a personal brand strategy, find their real strengths and drivers, and work through the habits that hold them back.

Global leadership and talent development

Programmes that keep high potential people, build succession plans with diversity in view, and line talent strategy up with where the business is going.

Diversity, inclusion and equity

An open culture strengthens the relationship between employer and employee, and lifts productivity and satisfaction. The work covers attracting and keeping a diverse workforce.

Unconscious bias and micro inequities

An interactive framework that raises awareness and turns it into behaviour people can actually use. It improves relationships and effectiveness across the organization.

Team transformation

Moving teams from conflict to collaboration, from stagnation to innovation, and from inefficiency to effectiveness. Differences become something the team uses.

Sustaining innovation excellence

Working with leadership to change patterns and engineer transformation across processes, products, customer interfaces and the way the organization thinks.

Purpose

“Enabling individuals, teams and organizations to transition from their present levels of effectiveness to higher levels of impact.”

Philip Berry Associates LLC

The work in practice

Philip Berry facilitating a leadership workshop
Workshops and facilitation
Philip Berry in a one to one coaching conversation
One to one coaching
Philip Berry working with a leadership team
Team transformation
Track record

Career, service and recognition

Senior corporate roles

  • Colgate Palmolive
  • Clinton Foundation
  • Procter and Gamble
  • Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority

Boards and public service

  • City University of New YorkVice Chairman, Board of Trustees
  • City of New York Construction FundActing Chairman
  • Global Commerce EducationBoard member
  • Asia Society Corporate Diversity CouncilFounder and advisor
  • New York City CenterAdvisory board

Recognition

  • Marquis Who's WhoListed, Spring 2024
  • Iconic Express MagazineTop 10 Influential Leaders of 2023
  • Crain's New YorkHonoured
  • The Feminist Press and Global HR NewsHonoured
  • Caribbean American Chamber of CommerceAnd National Hispanic Corporate Achievers
Cover of Being Better Than You Believe by Philip A. Berry

The book

Being Better Than You Believe

8 Steps to Ultimate Success

The practice Philip has spent his career refining, written for people who intend to be the architects of their own careers rather than passengers in them.

  • AuthorPhilip A. Berry
  • PublisherOutskirts Press
  • ISBN9781432756369
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In print and on air

Media

Talks and interviews

Cultural Quotient matters most in international business

Edwin Cohen, GLOBALTVtalkshow

Being Better Than You Believe

Philip Berry on the book

Better Than You Believe

Outskirts Press

Radio appearances

Close Up Radio welcomes back Philip Berry, part two

Close Up Radio, February 2026

Close Up Radio welcomes back Philip Berry, part one

Close Up Radio, January 2026

Close Up Radio spotlights Philip Berry Associates

Close Up Radio, October 2025

Published articles

The Diversity Officer's Role, its Relevance During the Recession, Recovery and the Obama Era

Bonnier Press, 2010

Breaking Through the Bamboo Ceiling

Diversity Executive Magazine, December 2010

Mastering Cultural Dexterity

Diversity Best Practices Journal, 2009

How to Re-Light the Fire in Yourself and Others in a Down Economy

Global HR News, March 2009

How Global Megatrends are Shaping Global Talent Management Strategies

Global HR News, December 2008

How Transformational Leadership Inspires Change

Global HR News

Clients

Speaking and facilitation

Work delivered in more than sixty countries

Selected engagements

The organizations
he has worked with

Global corporations, teaching hospitals, public authorities, cultural institutions and national associations. Programmes delivered across more than sixty countries.

41 Client organizations
on record
  • Google Corporate
  • Johnson and Johnson Health & science
  • Coca-Cola Corporate
  • Verizon Corporate
  • Pfizer Health & science
  • Comcast Corporate
  • Boeing Corporate
  • Progressive Corporate
  • UBS Financial Corporate
  • Colgate Palmolive Corporate
  • Norfolk Southern Corporate
  • Corning Corporate
  • Southwest Airlines Corporate
  • Ingersoll Rand Corporate
  • Broadridge Financial Corporate
  • McCormick Corporate
  • Rabobank Corporate
  • McGraw-Hill Corporate
  • Skanska Corporate
  • Covidien Health & science
  • Planned Parenthood Health & science
  • New York Public Library Public & cultural
  • Asia Society Public & cultural
  • The Frick Public & cultural
  • Schomburg Public & cultural
  • Beth Israel Hospital Health & science
  • Continuum Health Partners Health & science
  • American Association of Community College Trustees Public & cultural
  • Young and Rubicam Young and Rubicam Corporate
  • Biomet Biomet Health & science
  • HAVI HAVI Corporate
  • Right Management Right Management Corporate
  • True Blue True Blue Corporate
  • FIDI Global FIDI Global Association
  • DASNY New York State Dormitory Authority Public & cultural
  • Roosevelt & St. Luke's Roosevelt and St. Luke's Hospital Health & science
  • NAMS National Association of Minority Suppliers Association
  • NTL National Training Laboratories Association
  • NAAAHR National Association of African American Human Resource Executives Association
  • AAMC American Association of Management Consultants Association
  • Barrier Free Living Barrier Free Living Association

Listed as a record of engagements. All names and marks remain the property of their respective owners.

Philip Berry

Philip Berry

President, Philip Berry Associates LLC

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