Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, a global consulting firm working with companies interested in capturing the competitive advantage of gender, nationality, and generational balance. Since 2005, she has worked around the globe with the CEOs, Executive Committees and top management teams of some of the world’s best-known companies to capture the business opportunities of more balanced, 21st century forms of leadership, customer connections and talent management.
Her thought leadership has featured in The New York Times, BBC, Le Monde, FT, Der Spiegel and is accessible through several seminal books and regular contributions to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. She is an acclaimed conference and corporate speaker with three TEDx talks. She was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2023. Recognised by ELLE Magazine as one of the Top 40 Women Leading Change, she was also celebrated by PWN Global with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Gender Balanced Leadership.
By nationality Canadian, French and Swiss, she is a 2022 Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, has an MBA from INSEAD and is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She lives in London with her sculptor husband and is occasionally visited by her two, globe-trotting, gender-balanced children, a son and daughter.
