About
www.icohere.com
iCohere offers state-of-the-art collaboration solutions for associations, nonprofits, and government agencies. These include communities of practice with social networking; virtual conferences and events; eLearning courses; and organizational change initiatives. iCohere serves over 200 organizations worldwide -- Associations, Nonprofits, Government and Commercial.
Our clients use iCohere for multi-day online conferences, eLearning, online communities, Communities of Practice, collaborative workgroups, accreditation management, organizational change and much more.
About iCohere CEO/Co-Founder Pascal Kaplan, Ph.D.
Pascal blends a background in education and organizational development with skills as a software designer. Pascal works with the leadership of international and national associations, Fortune 500 companies and corporations, and nonprofit and governmental agencies as they seek to create and maintain learning communities and collaborative action networks that integrate the principles of collaboration with the newest online technologies.
Pascal's special expertise is in helping groups learn how to match the right innovative technology to their needs; and in facilitating the development and integration of attitudes, skills and capabilities needed to support organizational and cultural change. In addition to online and face-to-face presentations and training events, Pascal has most recently co-authored the manual, Online Engagement: A Strategic Guide, to accompany his series of educational seminars with America’s Promise Alliance on how to launch, grow, and support online communities and a chapter for The Children of 2020, entitled “The Learning Communities of 2020.”
- Status
- Private Company
- Founded
- 1995
Company History
iCohere began as The Kaplan Consulting Group (KCG) in 1988. Founded by Pascal Kaplan, Ph.D., former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at John F. Kennedy University, KCG started by developing custom, enterprise-wide applications for a variety of small and large organizations including SBC Communications, Bank of America and the State of California.
In 2000, Pascal teamed up with his son Soren Kaplan, then Manager of Hewlett-Packard's Internal Strategy and Organizational Development Consulting Group, to explore ways to bridge KCG's online application work with Soren's organizational development work. The two Kaplans envisioned professional online communities where people could come together to share ideas, knowledge and strategies to build and learn from each other.
Drawing on their backgrounds in education, technology and organizational development, Pascal and Soren set out to build a secure and flexible online community platform with a set of features designed to promote engaged online activity that would be inherently beneficial to users.
Beyond the platform, they saw an opportunity to create an approach closely tied to their experiences in education, group dynamics and knowledge management. They envisioned a company that was about more than simply selling software. They saw a company that works hand-in-hand with its clients to discover innovative ways to use online communities to meet educational goals and to provide benefit to members, stakeholders and staff. With those principles in mind, iCohere was launched in 2001.
Since then, iCohere has built hundreds of online communities for large and small organizations including associations, government agencies, non-profits and corporations. Most importantly, we are still committed to our founding principles.