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Since Sep 2022
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You are likely to live longer than you think. Are you ready? Science has gifted us ever longer, 100-year lives. This impacts… everything! From couples and careers - to companies and countries. We’ll interview the experts who are exploring the consequences – and the individuals applying it to their own lives and choices. Generational and gender expert Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with people designing new ways of living, working and loving at all ages – across life’s 4 quarters.

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Dr Mileham Hayes - Not Decline, Redesign: Mileham Hayes on Building Resilience With Science and Data

Jun 04, 2026 43m

This week, on 4-Quarter Lives, we revisit the conversation between Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Dr Mileham Hayes, author of ‘Live Longer: Revealing Today’s Secrets of Longevity and Wellbeing’ and a…

Jennifer Petriglieri - The Couple at the Centre: Jennifer Petriglieri on the Unit of Analysis We've Been Missing

May 28, 2026 42m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Jennifer Petriglieri, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD Business School and author of Couples That Work, to…

Michael Fossat: After the Ladder: Schneider Electric Builds Career Architecture for the 21st Century

May 21, 2026 40m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, we republish Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s conversation with Michael Fossat, head of Schneider Electric’s Future Ready program and Director of HR at Schneider Electric…

Michael Fossat: After the Ladder: Schneider Electric Builds Career Architecture for the 21st Century

May 21, 2026 40m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, we republish Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s conversation with Michael Fossat, head of Schneider Electric’s Future Ready program and Director of HR at Schneider Electric…

Helen Tupper: The Squiggly Career: Amazing If on Reinvention, Retention and the Leap

May 14, 2026 48m

In this episode of 4-Quarter Lives, we re-visit a conversation between Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Helen Tupper, Chief Executive of Amazing If, a company redefining careers for individuals and…

Alistair McQueen: The Midlife MOT: How Aviva Made Purpose a Business Lever

May 07, 2026 43m

This week we revisit a conversation between Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alistair McQueen, Head of Savings and Retirement at Aviva, the UK’s largest general insurance company and a major life and…

Chip Conley: The Modern Elder: The Wisdom of Not Knowing Yet

Apr 30, 2026 40m

This week, we republish a conversation between Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Chip Conley, the Founder and CEO of the Modern Elder Academy. Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the…

Prof. Herminia Ibarra: Working Identity: How People Actually Change

Apr 23, 2026 43m

In this episode of the Four Quarter Lives podcast, we revisit a conversation between Avivah Wittenberg Cox and Professor Herminia Ibarra of the London Business School. As we navigate the realities of…

James Root: The Business Case is Already Made: Bain & Co on the Longevity Dividend

Apr 16, 2026 40m

This week on 4-Quarter Lives we re-publish a conversation between Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and James Root, Senior Partner at international consultancy Bain & Co and Chair of Bain Futures, which…

Morag Lynagh: Mapping the New Q3 - How Unilever Redesigned Work for Longer, More Flexible Lives

Apr 09, 2026 27m

This week, as part of our series on Mapping the New Q3, we are re-publishing Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s conversation from 2023 with Morag Lynagh, then Unilever’s Global Director of the Future of Work. …

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: A Pioneer in Spotlighting the Third Quarter

Apr 02, 2026 36m

In this episode of 4-Quarter Lives, the first of three on the topic of The New Q3, we are re-publishing Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s conversation with Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from 2022. A sociologist and…

How Companies Are Redesigning Work, Travel and Technology for Longer Lives

Mar 26, 2026 8m

Everyone talks about longevity. Very few organisations are redesigning anything for it. In this mini-series, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox speaks with three leaders across public health, global hospitality,…

Helen Bevan: Change From the Middle. Leadership, Age, and Influence Inside Big Systems

Mar 12, 2026 31m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Helen Bevan, one of the UK’s most respected thinkers on large-scale change inside complex systems.Drawing on more than 35 years…

Jean-Yves Minet: Democratising Longevity: How Novotel Is Bringing Everyday Wellbeing to the Mass Market

Mar 05, 2026 48m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Jean-Yves Minet, Global Brand President of major hospitality group Accor, to explore how longevity is moving beyond luxury…

The Experience Dividend: Demographics, AI And The Redesign Imperative

Feb 19, 2026 9m

As we move into 2026, I’m launching a series of focused mini-series conversations on my 4-Quarter Lives podcast — three or four episodes clustered around one big strategic theme. And this is our…

Dan Pontefract - From Age Debt to Experience Dividends. Why the Future of Work Is Grey

Feb 05, 2026 44m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Dan Pontefract to tackle one of the last big blind spots in corporate leadership. Age.Dan is a long-time culture and…

Rick Robinson - Agetech Goes Mainstream. From Innovation Theater to Real Impact

Jan 29, 2026 37m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Rick Robinson, who leads innovation at AARP and is the driving force behind the Agetech Collaborative.Rick shares how a career spent…

Anu Madgavkar: Demographics Meets AI

Jan 22, 2026 48m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Anu Madgavkar, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, to explore the collision of two defining forces shaping our…

Simon Chan & Kate Schaefers: Designing Age-Diverse Universities: A Longevity Roadmap

Dec 10, 2025 47m

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Simon Chan and Dr. Kate Schaefers, co-chairs of the Nexel Collaborative, a not-for-profit network of academic thought leaders…

Virginia Cha: Designing the 100-Year Life: Inside NUS’s New Midlife Program

Dec 03, 2025 42m

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties running programmes for individuals looking to change direction as they enter…

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