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4-Quarter Lives

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox

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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48:11

Anu Madgavkar: Demographics Meets AI

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2026/01/22

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 future: global demographic decline and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.Anu has led two major McKinsey reports published in the same year, one on depopulation and shifting dependency ratios, and the other on AI, agents, robots and the future of work. In this conversation, she explains why these forces

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47:17

Simon Chan & Kate Schaefers: Designing Age-Diverse...

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2025/12/10

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 promoting college-based midlife transition programmes. As societies shift toward age-diverse populations and 60-year careers, they explore why higher education must evolve from a front-loaded, early-life model to one that supports adults through multiple transitions across the life course.Together, they

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42:18

Virginia Cha: Designing the 100-Year Life: Inside...

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2025/12/03

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 their 3rd Quarter of life. She discusses the origins and motivations for these programmes and how they fit into the evolving role of higher education. This week she speaks with Professor Virginia Cha, Academic Director of the new Distinguished Senior Fellows Program at the National University of Singapore

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32:33

Céline Abecassis-Moedas - Longevity Leadership in Lisbon

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2025/11/26

In Season 10 of 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties developing programmes for individuals looking to change direction in their 3rd Quarter of life. We explore the origins and motivations behind these programmes—and how they fit the evolving role of higher education in ageing societies.This week we are republishing Avivah’s conversation with Céline Abecassis-Moedas, Pro-Rector for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Universidade

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26:07

Amelia Peterson: Redesigning the MBA: How the London...

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2025/11/19

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Dr Amelia Peterson — founding faculty member of the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) — to explore how higher education can reinvent itself for an age of complexity, longevity, and accelerating change.Amelia shares the story behind LIS’s bold rethink of the traditional MBA — an interdisciplinary programme designed not around internal business functions, but around six defining global “shifts”: complexity, intelligence, energy,

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37:13

Hellmut Schutte: INSEAD’s Programme of New Beginnings...

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2025/11/12

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox explores how higher education is reinventing itself for ageing societies—helping experienced leaders and professionals navigate longer lives, extended careers, and purposeful transitions beyond their peak corporate years.In this episode, Avivah speaks with Hellmut Schütte, Emeritus Professor of International Management at INSEAD, about INSEAD’s groundbreaking new programme, AI Ventures - Empowering Your Life Transition. Launched in early 2024,

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46:44

Stewart McTavish & Alison Wood: How Cambridge is...

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2025/11/05

In Series 10 of the 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox continues her exploration of how universities around the world are redesigning themselves for longer lives and careers. In this episode, she talks with Stewart McTavish and Alison Wood from the University of Cambridge about the launch of Better Futures, a new programme supporting leaders in midlife transition.Together they reflect on why now is the moment for Cambridge to join this global movement and how the university’s distinctive

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56:20

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2025/10/31

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39:12

Sebastien Kernbach: Designing Your Future: Europe’s...

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2025/10/29

In Series 10 of 4 Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox continues her exploration of the world’s leading midlife transition programmes. This week she speaks with Sebastian Kernbach, founder of the University of St. Gallen’s Next – Design Your Future initiative — the first university-based midlife programme in continental Europe.They discuss how St. Gallen’s approach blends design thinking, positive psychology and behavioural economics to help accomplished professionals rethink their purpose,

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41:38

Marc Freedman - Yale’s Experienced Leaders Initiative...

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2025/10/23

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties developing programmes for individuals looking to change direction in their 3rd Quarter of life. We explore the origins and motivations behind these programmes—and how they fit the evolving role of higher education in ageing societies.In this episode she speaks with Marc Freedman — one of the world’s most influential thinkers on ageing, purpose, and intergenerational connection

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41:52

Lindsey Beagley: Lifelong University Engagement at...

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2025/10/15

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties developing programmes for individuals looking to change direction in their 3rd Quarter of life. We explore the origins and motivations behind these programmes—and how they fit the evolving role of higher education in ageing societies.This week we republish a conversation Avivah had with Lindsey Beagley, Senior Director of Lifelong University Engagement at Arizona State

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42:57

Seth Green: Chicago’s Leadership & Society Initiative

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2025/10/08

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties developing programmes for individuals looking to change direction in their 3rd Quarter of life. We explore the origins and motivations behind these programmes—and how they fit the evolving role of higher education in ageing societies.This week she welcomes Seth Green, Dean of the University of Chicago’s Graham School, which is the home to the university’s Leadership & Society

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33:46

Sara Singer: Stanford Advanced Careers Conversations

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2025/10/01

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 in their 3rd Quarter of life. She discusses the origins and motivations for these programmes and how they fit into the evolving role of higher education.This week she welcomes Sara Singer, Faculty Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI), to discuss how midlife transition programmes are reshaping

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37:02

Brian Trelstad: Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative

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2025/09/24

In Series 10 of 4-Quarter Lives Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with the leaders of a growing number of university faculties developing programmes for individuals looking to change direction in their 3rd Quarter of life. She discusses the origins and motivations for these programmes and how they fit into the evolving role of higher education. In this episode, she talks with Brian Trelstad, faculty chair of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Amongst other topics they discuss* The origins of ALI

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9:59

Implementing the Longevity Future - Where the Rubber...

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2025/07/30

Welcome to 4-Quarter Lives, a podcast exploring the profound impact of longer, healthier and more engaged lives, not only for ourselves and our couples, but also for companies and countries. I’m Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, and today, I’m doing a summary of our 9th season of this podcast.Each season of 4-Quarter Lives feels like a tapestry—woven from voices, visions, and lived experiments in the age of longevity. Season 9 may be the most practical yet: full of builders, architects, and reimagineers of how

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39:13

Julianne Miles: The Power of Career Breaks

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2025/07/23

This week on 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox welcomes Julianne Miles, career psychologist and co-founder of Career Returners, to discuss her forthcoming book Return Journey: How to get back to work and thrive after a career break. A leading voice in the returner space, Julianne has spent over a decade supporting thousands of professionals - many in midlife - relaunch their careers after extended breaks.In this conversation, Julianne reveals her own return-to-work story and why writing Return

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38:06

Maria Clara Pinheiro: Social Entrepreneurship as a...

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2025/07/16

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with Maria Clara Pinheiro, Co-lead of Ashoka’s New Longevity Initiative. Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs, has identified longevity as a key emerging trend through a bottom-up approach, observing a growing number of its fellows tackling issues related to ageing populations. This led to a global mapping of 100 fellows’ work and the launch of Ashoka’s “New Longevity” initiative. Five key themes emerged: changing the

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40:58

Mileham Hayes: A Q4 Doctor on Longer Lives – Avoiding...

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2025/07/09

This week, on 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with Dr Mileham Hayes, author of ‘Live Longer: Revealing Today’s Secrets of Longevity and Wellbeing’ and a specialist in preventative medicine. As he says, "preventive medicine has never realized its promise or potential...until now". Mileham, who launched the world’s first longevity clinic and has spent nearly six decades in coronary care, shares how much of heart disease—still the world’s top killer - is preventable, yet persistently

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37:49

Saher Mehdi: Ageing & Gender at a Cellular Level

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2025/07/02

In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Dr. Saher Mehdi- molecular biologist, longevity researcher, and healthcare entrepreneur, to explore what it truly means to age well.Saher traces her journey “from molecules to meaning,” beginning with a childhood curiosity sparked by her grandmother’s ageing hands. That moment led to a lifelong inquiry into the biology of ageing, one that took her across continents and disciplines. With a PhD from Durham University and postdoctoral

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1:44

Are You Skilled At Transitions?

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2025/07/01

VIDEO No.1 was WAKE UP to the New #DemographicsVIDEO No.2 is WE GOTTA GET GOOD AT #TRANSITIONS WHY?Because longer lives and #careers, and the new #Q3 chapter of our #4QuarterLivesmeans we need to understand, anticipate and transition gracefully and skilfully from quarter to quarter.Are you ready? Get full access to Elderberries at elderberries.substack.com/subscribe

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