Jacoba Langerak

Cobie Langerak is President of Triaxia Partners, a consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. A regular Moderator at Trinity Forum events in Europe, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Trinity Forum in 2005.

Ms. Langerak was born in the Netherlands and raised in the United States. Her achievements and leadership have been recognized through numerous private and public awards and Who’s Who recognitions. She has more than twenty years experience in various global industries and presently focuses on Triaxia Partners’ Leadership Practice, specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, and succession management.

Before joining Triaxia Partners (formerly Team Resources), she worked most recently at the Amsterdam headquarters of Philips International B.V., where she was Senior Vice President for Leadership and Organizational Development worldwide. Previous to that, she was with Baxter Healthcare, a highly benchmarked, best practices company in talent management. She also has more than ten years experience as a professor of psychology at various U.S. universities. She has published several professional journal articles on compensation, employment law, performance, and teamwork and designed numerous educational tools and materials. She formerly had her own call-in radio program and has been quoted in such business publications as Wall Street Journal Europe and the European Herald Tribune. She has successfully negotiated more than sixteen labor union contracts and brought three labor strikes to settlement.

A sought-after speaker, Ms. Langerak has been a guest lecturer at multiple international training functions, including ASTD, Linkage, IQPC, Global Forum and Human Resource Forum Europe. She has served on the Boards of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research and Rotterdam School of Management’s Executive Education Program and as volunteer consultant to African Leadership. She holds an M.A. from Michigan State University.