Coby Lerner

Coby Lerner is AJWS’s Associate Vice President of Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness. With a background in design thinking, strategic planning, and facilitation, Coby draws from a wealth of intellectual and practical resources to help organizations understand their most intractable challenges in new ways. Anchored in deep research, user-centric thinking, and co-creation, Coby’s practice ensures that institutions have realistic aspirations to increase the likelihood of adoption. In previous consulting roles, he worked alongside universities, technology companies, and cultural institutions, using an integrated approach to space, service, and strategy design. Transitioning from consulting to a staff position in 2020, Coby supported AJWS through the implementation of a strategic plan, sharpening both programmatic and operational objectives. He now oversees the development and implementation of organizational strategy as well as the learning, research, and evaluation functions at AJWS.