Season 7, Episode 6: Creating a Well Dressed Mindset (with guest Avivah Wittenberg-Cox)

Dahlia is joined by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox to discuss what it means to create a 'Well Dressed Mindset'Avivah explains that as statistically people are living far longer we need to get clear on what our priorities look like for each quarter of our life and through this take control of what we want to achieve right now.The conservation centres on getting really clear on each person or family unit's priorities and worrying less about what you feel you 'should' do and more about what you choose to do and how you spend your time.The conversation includes insights from Avivah's studies on both gender and generations and includes practical tips on how to take control.Her view on well dressed: 'Dressing up is about the images, symbols and metaphors that define your life'.Avivah is CEO, writer, speaker, coach, consultant, change agent – depending on the call and the context. A global expert on 21st century leadership, gender and generational balance, longevity and the future of work and careers, she helps individuals and organisations manage the consequences and opportunities of the new gender and generational balance of workforces and consumers. Themes summarised in her graphic book Thriving to 100 – Through Life’s 4 Quarters and featured on her podcast 4-Quarter Lives and weekly substack, elderberries. Avivah is a Visiting Lecturer at OXFORD Said Business School, runs a Thriving To 100 programme for INSEAD alumni, and is co-Director of Catolica Lisbon’s Longevity Leadership executive education programme. She’s an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University in Chicago and has published several LINKED IN Learning courses, including Building Gender Balanced Businesses and 4 Phases of Women’s Careers. She’s the author of the bestselling books WHY and HOW Women Mean Business (Wiley) and the Founder and Honorary President of the Global Professional Women’s Network, GlobalPWN.An Ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity, and the Global Peter Drucker Forum, Avivah sits on the Boards of the National Innovation Centre on Ageing (NICA), the Chartered Management Institute’s ‘Everyone Economy’ Board and the Vedica Scholars MBA Programme for women in India. A Fellow of Harvard’s 2022 Advanced Leadership Program, in 2023, Avivah was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.Born in Canada of European parents, she is a bilingual tri-national (French, Swiss and Canadian), now based in London with her British husband after several decades in Paris, and has two very charming, gender-balanced children (a son and daughter) who occasionally visit from Dakar and New York city.