Gena Cox

Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion, a best-selling and award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. She guides CEOs, leaders, and boards as they respond to evolving stakeholder expectations and transformation driven by societal change and organic and M&A growth. Gena is a warm and generous straight-shooter who offers leaders nuanced insights and recommendations from a lifetime of continuous multi-disciplinary learning.

Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes.

Gena co-chairs the Awards Committee of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and is a member of the Society’s 2022 Leading Edge Consortium Planning Committee. In addition, she is on the advisory boards of the University of South Florida Stavros Center and the University of Tampa TECO Energy Center for Leadership.

Gena’s work has been featured in national publications, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, Market Watch/Barrons, Business Journals, BBC Worklife, Readers Digest, and The Telegraph (UK).

Gena is a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology and a Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation).