Why this offering?
This microcredential certification program provides a much needed reframe and roadmap for thinking about gender in the workplace. This isn’t only about sexism, DEI and the latest identity. Instead, it’s about how women make up much of the market and most of the talent pool and how others are reacting or adapting to this new reality. Reaching a more gender-balanced consumer and stakeholder base and developing more gender-balanced talent are essential for sustainable economic growth.
Studies show that better gender balance in business means better bottom-line results and greater resistance to economic crises. This program takes the business arguments for change and provides an operationalized action plan through auditing, awareness, alignment, and sustaining for organizations to utilize gender balance for their thriving and their stakeholders’ thriving.
What is the offering?
The full program consists of six modules. It is highly interactive, and builds on a carefully articulated combination of research, videos and games. Everything is based on facts and data sourced from reputable studies. We’ve integrated two decades of working with management teams across sectors and around the world, to develop a complete guide to building gender balance skills for managers.
Who is the program for?
This program is for anyone interested in a fresh take on an old topic: how to effectively and sustainably cultivate gender balanced talent and better connect with a gender balanced marketplace.
Who are the facilitators?
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is a consultant, coach, writer and speaker specializing in generational and gender balance, the future of work, the longevity economy and the impact of 60-year careers. As CEO of 20-first, Avivah has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and coach helping companies adapt to major 21st century shifts.
She has advised global CEOs, leadership teams and executive committees across more than 40 countries on gender, longevity and culture across a wide range of sectors — from FMCG and financial services to the pharmaceutical and tech sectors.
Avivah is an advisory board member of The Intelligent Leader Hub, and a board member of the Beyond Incredible Group. A regular contributor to Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, Avivah is host of the longevity focused podcast 4-Quarter Lives, and substack Elderberries. She has lectured at INSEAD and HEC and has spoken at events ranging from Ted, to The Economist Conferences, The Drucker Forum, WIN and The Women’s Forum.
Avivah’s books range from those focused on strategic leadership issues, including
Why Women Mean Business and
Seven Steps to Leading Gender Balanced Businesses, to a graphic series for managers. With a strong belief that the personal informs the professional (and vice versa), in 2022 Avivah completed a year at Harvard as an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow, researching and writing about the longevity opportunity and navigating longer lives — at work and at home.
Andrea Kayne
Throughout her career, Andrea Kayne has grappled with a critical question: How can we realize our own internal power both personally and professionally, no matter the constraints in the external world?
Andrea has pursued this and other questions as Director of the Leadership Program at DePaul University College of Education where she has taught for the last twenty years. Andrea has taught, written, spoken, and consulted on topics of empowered leadership, balanced leadership, emotionally intelligent leadership, constructive culture and conflict resolution, DEI, and the area she has developed — Internally Referenced Leadership. She has given several successful talks on this topic at national conferences and for large companies like Expedia, Slack, Dell, and others; she has also written a book about Internally Referenced Leadership published by University of Iowa Press in 2021.
Andrea grew up in California and then received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College, her Masters of Education degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
What is the cost?
The cost for Microcredential Certification is a total of $2,000.
For more information, contact us via email at
innovate@depaul.edu
To enroll in the course:
Please note: Registration requires participant's full name, email address, phone number and date of birth. This information will be required as part of the two-factor authentication your new DePaul University account will utilize.