Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist and executive coach who believes any organization can be a haven for great employee experiences. She demystifies the leadership actions that can build inclusive workplaces and coaches individuals to optimize their career strategies so they can thrive proactively. Gena’s clients report enhanced employee engagement, attraction, retention, and inclusion and diversity outcomes. Her advice is evidence-based, with multi-disciplinary lessons from organizational psychology, history, and the law. However, Gena’s experiences as a Black woman, immigrant, and mother, add seasoning to the nuanced insights that are her hallmark. Clients hire Gena for her insights but stay for her warm and supportive style. Gena’s views about organizational life were forged through a decades-long career as a corporate leader, advisor, and executive coach to leaders in multiple global companies and multiple industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. Additionally, Gena works well cross-culturally, having lived and worked in the US, England, and the Caribbean. She is the author of the award-winning book, Leading Inclusion. Gena has shared her leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), employee experience, and career optimization expertise with several media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, BBC, Newsweek, MarketWatch, and the Business Journals. Gena’s professional speaker clients include Zscaler, DTCC, Mitre, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), Perceptyx, WiSQ, Cengage, and Keywords Studios. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
