Job title
CEO
Company
20-first
Bio and keynote/speaker topic/further reading
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, a leading international gender-balance consultancy. She works with top management at some of the world’s best-known companies to identify the business opportunities of gender balance and how to achieve it. She has written a number of key reference books in the field: One Key to Gender Balance, Four Phases to Women’s Careers, Seven Steps to Leading Gender-Balanced Businesses (HBR 2014), How Women Mean Business (Wiley 2010), and Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution (Wiley 2008), which won the Manpower Business Book of the Year award. Avivah speaks on leadership, marketing and talent management across the globe, writes a blog for Harvard Business Review and was the first female columnist for Der Spiegel’s Manager Magazine. She is Founder and Honorary President of the European Professional Women’s Network. Canadian, French and Swiss, she has been recognised by ELLE Magazine as one of the TOP 40 Women Leading Change.
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox