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Ashton Applewhite
Dismantle ageism and build inclusive workplaces with Ashton Applewhite, anti-ageism expert and diversity speaker. Ashton works with organizations to combat age discrimination, strengthen intergenerational collaboration, and advance workplace inclusion. TED speaker, UN Healthy Ageing 50 honoree, author of This Chair Rocks.
Ashton Applewhite is an author and activist who has reshaped public conversation about aging by exposing ageism as one of the last socially acceptable prejudices.
Her book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, established her as a leading figure in the anti-ageism movement. She has spoken on the TED mainstage, and the United Nations and World Health Organization named her to their inaugural Healthy Ageing 50, a list recognizing leaders working to transform the world into a better place to grow older.
Ashton connects ageism to broader systems of discrimination, showing how it intersects with sexism, ableism, and racism. Her work helps organizations, healthcare providers, and individuals recognize age-based bias in policies, language, and culture. By reframing longevity as a collective achievement rather than a crisis, she gives audiences practical tools to challenge stereotypes that limit people at every stage of life.
Audiences leave Ashton's sessions with a clearer understanding of how internalized ageism shapes their own fears about getting older, concrete language to identify and counter age discrimination in workplaces and communities, and a framework for building intergenerational solidarity that benefits all ages.
Book Ashton Applewhite to give your audience the clarity and courage to dismantle ageism where they live and work.
Ashton Applewhite brings rare authority on ageism's intersection with workplace equity, backed by UN and WHO recognition for transforming how organizations address age-based bias. Her frameworks help leadership teams identify discrimination embedded in policies and culture while building intergenerational cohesion that strengthens retention and innovation.
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Ashton Applewhite structures her sessions around reframing ageism as a systemic prejudice intersecting with sexism, ableism, and racism, drawing on the arguments developed in her book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. She equips audiences with concrete language to identify age-based bias in workplace policies and culture, and a framework for building intergenerational solidarity.
Ashton Applewhite speaks on ageism as systemic discrimination, the intersection of age bias with sexism, racism and ableism, and intergenerational solidarity. Her book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism established her as a leading voice in the anti-ageism movement, and she has spoken on the TED mainstage, with the United Nations and World Health Organization naming her to their inaugural Healthy Ageing 50.
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