Evan Rosen is an American author, speaker, business strategist, and journalist. He is executive director of The Culture of Collaboration InstituteBloomberg BusinessWeek columnists and Chief Strategist of Impact Video Communication, Inc., which he co-founded.
Rosen is the author of The Culture of Collaboration series of books. The series includes The Culture of Collaboration (), a Gold Medal Winner in the Axiom Business Book Awards.Announcing the Results of the First Annual Axiom Business Book Awards. Independentpublisher.com Companies used as case studies in the book include Boeing, Toyota, Dow Chemical Company, Procter & Gamble, BMW, Mayo Clinic, Myelin Repair Foundation, Industrial Light & Magic and DreamWorks Animation.“Columnists” Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150312124830/http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/authors/1041-evan-rosen The other book in the series is The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration ().Mihlrad, Leigh (June 1, 2013). "Review of The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration." Library Journal. The Bounty Effect includes a back-cover endorsement from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.The Culture of Collaboration: Deserializing Time, Talent and Tools to Create Value in the Local and Global Economy,” Google Books The expanded and updated edition of The Culture of Collaboration (ISBN 978-0-9774617-9-0) was released in September 2024.The Culture of Collaboration (expanded and updated edition). Library of Congress Catalog, web site of the Library of Congress, retrieved April 9, 2025. The subtitle of the new edition is Deserializing Time, Talent and Tools to Create Value in the Local and Global Economy. The expanded and updated edition adds collaborative diversity as an additional cultural element to the Ten Cultural Elements of Collaboration Rosen identifies in the first edition so that there are now Eleven Cultural Elements of Collaboration.“Index” The Culture of Collaboration-expanded and updated edition, The Culture of Collaboration web site, retrieved April 22, 2026.
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The Culture of Collaboration shows how collaboration creates business value and demonstrates how collaborative culture is changing business models and the nature of work. Terms Rosen coins in the book include mirror zones, which are time zones that are opposite or nearly opposite, and the Ten Cultural Elements of Collaboration.Rud, Olivia Parr (April 27, 2009). Business Intelligence Success Factors. John Wiley & Sons, p. 67 According to a review by the Axiom Business Book Awards, “Whether it is dealing with the changing trends of business or the basic cultural elements that enable collaboration, Rosen is able to offer insight on every situation.”Review of The Culture of Collaboration According to a profile of Rosen in the MIT Technology Review, “American society, says Rosen, encourages individualism and a star system, which inhibits the very collaboration that he maintains can make companies more effective.”
In the expanded and updated edition of The Culture of Collaboration, published in 2024, Rosen shows how to reimagine business models “by collapsing outmoded sequential approaches and replacing them with spontaneous, real-time processes. He goes back inside collaborative organizations profiled in the first edition including Toyota, Mayo Clinic, Boeing, and Industrial Light & Magic. The book explores why some organizations win at collaboration while others fail and shows how any organization or team can instill collaborative culture.“Alumni News: Evan Rosen’s Updated Edition of The Culture of Collaboration” (February 19, 2025), web site of Horace Mann School. The expanded and updated edition includes new chapters on “Collaborating with Robots and Intelligent Agents” and “The Brave New World of Trust and Security.” “Contents,” The Culture of Collaboration - expanded and updated edition, web site of The Culture of Collaboration, retrieved April 4, 2025.
The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration provides a framework for replacing obsolete Industrial Age organizational structures based on command-and-control with collaborative organizational structures designed for the Information Age.Review of The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration (May 20, 2013). Publishers Weekly. The book gets its name from the mutiny that occurred on the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789. Rosen uses the mutiny to illustrate how exigent circumstances compel companies, governments and organizations to change their structures from command-and-control to collaborative.Srodes, James (November 19, 2013). "Review of The Bounty Effect." The Washington Times According to a review in Publishers Weekly: “In his book, Rosen, an internationally recognized collaboration and communication strategist, presents seven steps to establishing a collaborative culture within an organization, moving away from the Industrial Age mentality to one better suited for the Information Age.”
Rosen is also the author of Personal Videoconferencing (Manning/Prentice Hall, 1996, ), the first book on PC-based videoconferencing. In the book, he coined the word collabicate, which means to collaborate and communicate.Barlow, Janelle et al (October 2, 2002). Smart Videoconferencing: New Habits for Virtual Meetings. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, p. 152.
Biography Rosen's “Collaboration” columns have appeared on Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com. His work has been featured in media outlets including the Washington Post,Russell, Joyce E.A. “Career Coach: Collaboration Among Competitors Can Be Useful” (October 28, 2012) Washington Post. Wall Street Journal,Rosen, Evan. “Spontaneous Collaboration,” (August 11, 2007) Wall Street Journal. MIT Technology Review,Gomes, Lee. “Collaborating Takes More than Technology” (March 11, 2011) MIT Technology Review. Forbes,Hedges, Kristi. “Competition at Work: Positive or Positively Awful” (July 8, 2015) Forbes. Washington Times, CT Insider,Ryan, JoAnn “From the Chamber: Collaboration is Critical” (January 6, 2023) CT Insider (Hearst Connecticut Media Group) IndustryWeek,Rosen, Evan “Collaborative Manufacturing Creates Value” (May 15, 2014) IndustryWeek. Investor’s Business Daily,Bonasia, J. “Learning to Create Better Collaboration Hubs” (September 11, 2009) Investor’s Business Daily. NetworkWorld,Rosen, Evan. “Real-time Collaboration Gets Real” (January 4, 2007), NetworkWorld Communication World,Hanson, Kim A. “The Keys to a Collaborative Culture” (May–June, 2008) Communication World. and Leader to Leader“Collaboration Risks and Rewards” (Summer, 2010) Leader to Leader. among others. He has also appeared on CNN, CBS News, and CNBC including CNBC’s “Collaboration Now” primetime special.Video clip of CNBC’s primetime special, retrieved April 22, 2026Goldman, Beth “CNBC Presents Collaboration Now", a Five-Part Primetime Global Series (October 14, 2008) CNBC news release
On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rosen delivered a keynote speech to the United States Intelligence Community at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).Rosen, Evan. (June 3, 2013). The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration, p. 9Srodes, James “Business in Books, the Good and Not so” (April 27, 2008) Washington Times. The speech focused on how to adopt cross-agency collaborative culture and processes. Rosen has also delivered keynote speeches globally at corporate and government events including the National conference on Clinical Research in Gothenburg, Sweden“Keynote Presentations for the National Conference on Clinical Research 2015” web site of the Gothia Forum on Clinical Research, retrieved April 22, 2026. and the Tagetik User Conference in Lucca, Italy.“Tagetik Introduces the CPM Evolution: 400 Participants Across the World Attended the Company's 2010 User Conference” (September 28, 2010), PR Newswire He has also lectured at the Brookings Institution and the Stanford University Center for Professional development.“About Evan Rosen” web site of The Culture of Collaboration, retrieved April 22, 2026.
Rosen spent his early career reporting on Silicon Valley and the automobile industry for television stations.“Electric Vehicles Have Come a Long Way,” news story reported by Evan Rosen, WTOL-TV, Toledo, September 13, 1991, YouTube video posted by WTOL-TV. He has held news positions at KICU-TV in San Jose, WTOL-TV in Toledo, WABC-TV in New York, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, KODE-TV in Joplin, Missouri, and WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor.Biography of Evan Rosen, Marquis Who’s Who in America (2009), 63rd edition.
He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan -Ann Arbor where he was news director and a member of the board of directors of the Campus Broadcasting Network. He is also a graduate of Horace Mann School in New York City” where he was executive editor of The Record.
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External links "Q&A with Collaboration Guru Evan Rosen" by Eric Lai in Avaya Innovations Magazine MIT Technology Review’s profile of Evan Rosen by Lee Gomes Talent Management magazine. "Can Collaboration Be Forced?" by Kellye Whitney. Federal News Radio. "How to Bust Silos and Foster Collaboration." by Dorothy Ramienski. Collaborata Blog. “How Collaborative Culture is Changing Business,” June 2, 2016 CNBC interview with Evan Rosen by Donny Deutsch on “Collaboration Now” primetime special Boston Scientific Co-Founder John Abele’s Kingbridge Collaboration Blog. “Are You a Knowledge Worker?” "Skills Sharpener: Collaboration" by Julie Wilson, Phoenix Focus, June 6, 2016 Ryan, JoAnn (July 21, 2017). “From the Chamber: Collaboration is Critical,” The Register Citizen. Communication World. “The Keys to a Collaborative Culture.” Review of The Culture of Collaboration by Kim A. Hanson. IndustryWeek. “Collaborative Manufacturing Creates Value.” I nterview with Evan Rosen in Ernst & Young Performance magazine Forbes Interview with Evan Rosen by Bennett Voyles, “Alternatives to the Annual Performance Review” March 16, 2016. Personal Videoconferencing (1996) ISBN 0-13-268327-X The Bounty Effect (2013) The Culture of Collaboration(2007)