Maddy Dychtwald

Maddy Dychtwald

Speaker: Maddy Dychtwald

Senior Vice-President and Co-Founder, Age Wave; Award-winning Author, Cycles: How We Will Live, Work and Buy

Topics:

  • The New Experiential Marketplace
  • The Longevity Revolution: The Future of Health and Healthcare
  • How the Age Wave Will Transform the Marketplace – and Our Lives
  • Power Shift: How Women’s Rising Power will Change the World
  • Retirement Wake-Up Call: The Future of Financial Services
  • Four Generations Rethink Work, Retirement and Success
  • Living with Purpose: Rethinking Success
  • Retirement at the Tipping Point: New Funding, New Timing, New Purpose

Author, speaker and Age Wave co-founder Maddy Dychtwald is a leading expert on the changing demographic trends—both generation- and gender-related—shaping the marketplace, the workplace and our lives.

Maddy has spent more than 25 years investigating and forecasting lifestyle and market trends of older adults and the 79 million baby boomers. Building on this knowledge, she has recently emerged as a renowned authority on the rising economic influence of women and their impact on industries, ranging from financial services and healthcare to consumer marketing.

A high impact speaker, she has addressed more than 300,000 business and social service leaders worldwide for organizations such as Blue Cross of California, Chevron, Direct Marketing Association, Fidelity Investments, Lincoln Financial, LPL Financial, Global Women Leadership Network, Mastercard, National Association of Educators, Network of Executive Women and the World Future Society. Maddy has been regularly featured in prominent media worldwide, including: Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, TIME, U.S. News & World Report, Fox Business News, CNBC and NPR. She is also a popular contributor to The Huffington Post and ThirdAge.com.

Her newest book, INFLUENCE: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better (2010) explores how women are the major change agent of the decade to come. Maddy also wrote Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy (2004), the winner of the 2004 Book of the Year Award from the National Community Colleges Association, and co-authored an illustrated children’s book on personal reinvention entitled Gideon’s Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings (2008).

Maddy co-founded Age Wave, the nation’s foremost thought-leader on population aging trends and their profound business, lifestyle and cultural implications. The company provides breakthrough research, award-winning communications, and results-driven marketing and consulting initiatives to more than half of the Fortune 500.

The New Experiential Marketplace

The Longevity Revolution: The Future of Health and Healthcare

How the Age Wave Will Transform the Marketplace – and Our Lives

Power Shift: How Women’s Rising Power will Change the World

Retirement Wake-Up Call: The Future of Financial Services

Four Generations Rethink Work, Retirement and Success

Living with Purpose: Rethinking Success

Retirement at the Tipping Point: New Funding, New Timing, New Purpose



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