Speaking - Building Gender Balanced Business

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of the consultancy 20-first.

20-first works with progressive companies interested in diversifying their leadership teams and optimising both halves of the talent pool and both halves of the market – the female and male halves. 20-first works with CEOs, executive committees and managers to build gender ‘bilingual’ organisations. The firm’s renowned Building Gender Balanced Businesses programmes and suite of online tools help companies harness the talent and market opportunities of the 21st century.

Avivah is author of the best selling:

• HOW Women Mean Business, A Step by Step Guide to Profiting from Gender Balanced Business, Wiley 2010
• WHY Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, Wiley 2008 (co-authored with Alison Maitland)

More at: www.WHYandHOWWomenMeanBusiness.com

She has spoken on leadership, marketing and talent management issues across the globe and lectures at both INSEAD and HEC business schools. She blogs for Harvard Business Review as well as Diversity Executive and is the first female columnist of Der Spiegel’s Manager Magazin. She is the Founder and Honorary President of the European Professional Women’s Network (www.EuropeanPWN.net). Canadian, French and Swiss, she has been recognised by ELLE Magazine as one of the TOP 40 Women Leading Change. Her first book was awarded the prestigious MANPOWER Best Book of the Year prize and was selected as a business book of the year by the Conference Board Review.
More at: www.AvivahWittenbergCox.com
Twitter: @A_WittenbergCox
Blog: www.20-firstblog.com

• “21st Century Leadership – Why CEOs Need to Get Serious about Sex”
  A C-level perspective on WHY gender matters to 21st century business, and HOW to implement effective balance

• “Bilingual Sales & Marketing – Connecting with both halves of the Consumer Market”
  An in-depth look at HOW better gender understanding can open new market spaces and increase customer satisfaction

• “‘Bilingual’ Talent Management – Recruiting, Retaining, Promoting Both Halves of the Talent Pool”
  A pragmatic guide to HOW companies can implement sustainable solutions to improve gender balance in management and leadership (and what hasn’t worked in the past)

• “WHY & HOW Women Mean Business – A Walk around Womenomics”
  A wake-up call on why ‘women’ is a business issue, not a women’s issue

• For Women: “The Time is NOW”
  Powerful and inspiring leadership training and empowerment
  Pragmatic strategies for promoting real progress in your organisation

• The Economist Conference on Human Potential, NEW YORK
• 10th World Knowledge Forum, SEOUL
• Deutschebank Women in Business Conference, LONDON
• Peter Drucker Global Forum, VIENNA
• Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Conference, MUMBAI
• Euro Finance Week, FRANKFURT
• Opportunity NOW, LONDON
• INSEAD Executive EMBA and CEDEP Guest Lecturer, FONTAINEBLEAU
• EU Commission, BRUSSELS
• Keynote Speaker on HOW Women Mean Business, INSEAD. SINGAPORE
• Keynote Speaker at event hosted by UBS, TOKYO
• HEC Business School, Visions of Leadership week, PARIS
• Women on Board Forum, VANCOUVER
• Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society, DEAUVILLE
• Happy Capitalism, COPENHAGEN