Margaret A. Cowen, Ph.D.

Margaret Cowen is Co-founder and Vice-president of the SYMLOG Consulting Group (SCG). She has a B.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University, professional credentials in secondary education, an M.B.A. from Boston University, and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from United States International University in 1998.

Dr. Cowen began her organizational career managing marketing services of the supply division of a large hotel chain. She has been active in the formation of several volunteer organizations and has worked both as an internal and external consultant to firms in the public and private sectors.

Dr. Cowen has trained numerous management development programs on six continents and concentrates her consulting efforts on value-based intervention strategies. Her research work focuses on the relationship between an individual’s behavior and the values they are perceived to show in behavior. She is the senior author of the Interaction Effectiveness Assessment™ (iea).

Dr. Cowen has been an integral part of the transition from use of SYMLOG in the laboratory to practical applications and is responsible for many of the foundation pieces that make up the SYMLOG system today. In addition, during the last thirty years she has personally trained over 1,000 Certified SYMLOG Consultants worldwide.