Maddy Dychtwald

Authority on Lifestyle, Marketing, and Age Wave Futurist

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

Now, more than ever, the role of women in defining and driving business is paramount. Women already control more than 50% of all consumer spending. They are being educated in higher numbers than men and are now, for the first time in history, employed in higher numbers than men. While many of today’s women stand strong when wielding earning power, many still slump in their financial confidence, long-term financial decision-making skills, economic control and investment power. The final frontier for women in the gender revolution will be gaining muscle and control over their money. Based on groundbreaking findings from Age Wave’s landmark research study “Women, Money, and Power,” this presentation reveals important new insights on women and their relationship to money. It provides an illuminating and in-depth look at women’s motivations, fears, and challenges around money, saving, and spending and shows how to most effectively target their needs and hopes.

The New Experiential Marketplace

At this moment in history – with so many fears and worries – there is a deepening appreciation for the immeasurable value of great times with friends and loved ones, the satisfaction of continued personal growth and lifelong learning and the excitement of encountering new people, places and cultures. In addition, fueled by the dual liberations of empty nesting and retirement, tens of millions of men and women are beginning to enjoy more free time than at any other point in their lives. These forces are causing a massive shift in interest from a desire to purchase “things” to an unquenchable appetite for new, exciting, stimulating and challenging “experiences.” Learn how this change will transform the consumer marketplace and give birth to a new assortment of travel, leisure, recreation, rejuvenation, entertainment, infotainment, housing, volunteering and lifelong learning industries.

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

This visionary presentation offers deep insights into the global population shifts that are occurring and what they mean for business and marketers. How might increasing longevity and declining fertility impact societies, economies, families and individual lives? Do people want to live traditional “linear” or more flexible “cyclic” lives and how does that alter brand loyalty? How will the “age wave” impact the consumer marketplace and which sectors and products will shrink and which will grow: from vitamins and nutraceuticals, cookies to lifetime income insurance and anti-aging healthcare, and from adventure travel to edutainment. Which industries – and countries - are hopeful about their “age wave” prospects and which are fearful? This presentation outlines how companies should orient their branding and marketing to best resonate with the new generation of “middlescent” adults. Dr. Ken Dychtwald will also provide a list of “key marketing lessons” from 35 years on the front lines - that can be applied by marketers across industries.

About Maddy Dychtwald

Maddy Dychtwald is a nationally recognized author, public speaker, marketing executive and entrepreneur. One of the nation’s leading authorities on the lifestyle, marketing, and retirement implications of the "age wave," she has spent more than twenty years deeply involved in exploring all aspects of this subject.

In 1986, together with her husband, Ken, she co-founded Age Wave, a firm created to guide Fortune 500 companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults. During her first decade at Age Wave, she helped grow the company from the ground up to a multi-million dollar enterprise with a reputation as the best in its field.

Ms. Dychtwald is the author of two books; a children's book on aging and lifetime reinvention entitled Gideon's Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings and Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy, which was the winner of the 2004 Book of the Year Award from the National Community Colleges Association. Presently, she is working on her new book, Power Shift: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Change the World, to be published in January 2010. She has been featured in numerous articles in leading newspapers and magazines nationwide, including Advertising Age, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, and US News and World Report, and has appeared on countless radio and television programs.

During her career, Ms. Dychtwald has addressed more than 275,000 business leaders worldwide including a diverse group of clients such as Allegiance Healthcare, A.C. Nielsen, Allstate Insurance, Blue Cross of California, Chevron, Direct Marketing Association, International Council of Shopping Centers, Fidelity Investments, International Foundation of Employer Benefit Plans, Lincoln Financial, National Association of Educators, and World Future Society. Her entertaining multi-media presentations combine provocative information with exciting imagery.

A graduate of New York University, Maddy, her husband, Ken, and their two children make their home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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