Maddy Dychtwald


Maddy Dychtwald is author, speaker, and an expert in the field of changing demographic trends that shape the marketplace and the workplace. She has written on the economic ascent of women, including how it will transform financial services, healthcare, and consumer marketing.
Maddy co-founded Age Wave, a firm that provides consulting services to business and non-profits worldwide on a broad range of issues relating to aging populations.
Dychtwald has given presentations across multiple industries, including health, energy, financial, marketing, non-profit, and education.
Dychtwald has been featured in various media outlets including: Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and TIME. She is an ongoing contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s Retirement Expert Panel where she authored the top wealth-management expert post for 2017 and 2018 based on reader traffic. She also regularly contributes to HuffPost, thirdAGE, and caring.com.
Together with her husband Dr. Ken Dychtwald, Dychtwald received the prestigious Esalen Prize in 2016 for outstanding contributions to advancing the human potential of aging men and women worldwide. She is also a founder of the nonprofit organization Women Against Alzheimer's and serves as a board member of the BrightFocus Foundation, which funds early stage research to eradicate diseases of the brain and eye.

Personal life

A graduate of New York University, Dychtwald has been a working mom living in the San Francisco Bay Area for much of her adult life.

Books