Davia Temin
New York
Davia Temin is CEO of Temin and Company, a boutique management consultancy that helps corporations and other institutions create, enhance and save their reputations with a focus on crisis and risk management, corporate governance, and leadership coaching at the CEO and board levels. Temin and Company works with clients to create socially responsible, brand-distinguishing thought leadership and best practices in governance and corporate leadership, as well as to promote women’s leadership, provide ethically based marketing, media and social media strategy and execution, and create cultures supportive of gender equity. Davia serves as a spokesman for organizations during crises, strategist, and leadership and communications coach at the board, CEO and executive committee levels. Davia attended Columbia University for her Masters Degree and is an Honors graduate of Swarthmore College. Davia serves as Chair of the Board of global NGO Video Volunteers, an international media and human rights NGO founded in 2003 that promotes community media to enable citizen participation in marginalized and poor communities around the world. Previously, Davia served for 9 years as the First Vice Chair of the Board of Girl Scouts of the USA and Chair of their National Fund Development Committee, and for 10 years as board member, and head of the committee on Visibility and Leadership in Higher Education of Swarthmore College. In addition to Columbia’s Women Creating Change Leadership Council, Davia also serves on the boards or advisory boards of Girl Scouts of Greater New York, The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program of Columbia Journalism School, Harvard Women’s Leadership Board, and ProPublica, among others. Davia writes the “Reputation Matters” column for Forbes.com and recently penned “Chaos Leadership: When Does Global Crisis Turn Into Chaos and How Do We Survive It?.”