Avivah Wittenberg Cox
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox | |
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is an American academic and a professor at the DePaul University. She is known for her work on gender and age balance, looking at the future of jobs, the economy, and careers for older people. She was recognized by ELLE Magazine and received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Gender-Balanced Leadership from PWN Global. She is the CEO of 20-first, a global consulting firm.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Avivah grew up in Canada and studied Computer Science and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She moved to Paris and got an MBA from INSEAD.[3]
Avivah studied at Harvard in 2022 researching on how changing demographics affect countries, companies, careers, and couples.[4][5]
Career
[edit]Avivah serves on advisory boards for NICA and the Chartered Management Institute and is an ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity and the Global Peter Drucker Forum. In 2023, she joined the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.[6]
Avivah writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review, hosts the podcast "4-Quarter Lives," and writes the "Elderberries" newsletter. She teaches at Oxford, INSEAD, and Católica Lisbon. She has written books on gender-balanced leadership and longevity leadership.[7][8]
Contributions
[edit]Avivah's ideas have been featured in The New York Times, BBC, and the Financial Times.[9][10][11]
Her book Why Women Mean Business won the MANPOWER Best Book of the Year Prize.[12][13]
Selected works
[edit]- Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution (2008)
- How Women Mean Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Profiting from Gender-Balanced Business (2010)
- Seven Steps to Leading Gender-Balanced Businesses (2014)
- Late Love: Mating in Maturity
- 5 Steps to Longevity Leadership
- Thriving to 100: Through Life’s 4 Quarters
References
[edit]- ^ "Avivah Wittenberg-Cox". Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Have female CEOs coped better with Covid than men?". BBC. 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Freeman, Hilary. "'You deserve to find your soulmate'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Avivah Wittenberg-Cox | CU Denver Change Makers". www.ucdenver.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Avivah Wittenberg Cox Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Mistry, Priyansha (2024-01-10). "Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow". The HR Digest. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Trefts, Deborah (2020-07-14). "20-first CEO, Chautauqua favorite, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox to discuss career cycles in a changed world". The Chautauquan Daily. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ McCullough, D. G. (2014-06-04). "When will women achieve gender equality in leadership at work?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Caulkin, Simon (2022-04-21). "Will women leaders change the future of management?". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Diverse and decisive". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Treatment of Motherhood Illustrates Divides in European Union". The New York Times.
- ^ "Red Badger appoints gender balance experts to advisory board". www.consultancy.uk. 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Avivah Wittenberg-Cox". JUMP Promoting gender equality, advancing the economy. 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2024-09-23.