Ilana Kukoff
Founder and CEO at Cognition Builders
Founder and CEO at Cognition Builders
Cognition Builders
Since February 2012
- Ilana Kukoff is the Founder and CEO of Cognition Builders Corporation. The global company designs unique methods and curricula to help family members change how they behave and speak to one another in the comfort of their homes. Cognition Builders receives referrals from all mental health experts and stakeholders who work with families in conflict on a wide variety of family-system-based issues.
- Kukoff’s team of Family Architects pulls curricula from more than 2,000 programs to help them oversee and evaluate progress to improve the way families think, speak, and act toward one another in the following areas of the human condition:
- Behavioral.
- Family systems.
- Intellectual.
- Social.
- Kukoff and the team at Cognition Builders construct a family program proposal to help the family understand the process prior to beginning. After that, the family begins the work of learning more effective ways to respond to each other. All of this takes place at the family’s home.
- Ilana Kukoff’s Publications
- Ilana Kukoff and Cognition Builders’ Chief Learning Officer Jessica Huddy teamed up to publish the book “Say This, Not That to Your Teenage Daughter: The Pocket Guide to Everyday Conversation.” Published in April 2018, the book is available in paperback and Kindle format on Amazon. The co-authors cover common topics relevant to teenage girls and their parents, such as stress, excessive phone use, and heartbreak from failed relationships.
- Cognition Builders Has Grown Under Her Leadership
- As families around the world have become aware of the unique approach taken by the team at Cognition Builders, demand for the company’s services continues to grow. Thanks to Kukoff’s leadership, the company grew by 300 percent in five years.
Credentials and Professional Experiences - Ilana Kukoff holds a degree from Columbia University. Prior to founding Cognition Builders, Kukoff briefly served as a guest lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles Bruin Woods Family Camp in Lake Arrowhead. She has appeared as a guest commentator on Access Hollywood and was a guest on a local affiliate for National Public Radio. Kukoff also has several corporate partnerships and universities, including with Stetson.
- Kukoff lives in New York and has raised two children. Her son is 26 and works as a venture capitalist. Her daughter is 22 and about to start graduate school at Columbia University.
