Natasha Josefowitz

Natasha Josefowitz

Dr. Natasha Josefowitz was a professor of management for 30 years and is an internationally-known business consultant and keynote speaker. For ten years she had her own weekly program on public radio and a monthly television segment.

Dr. Josefowitz is the best-selling author and award-winning poet of 21 business and poetry books. Her articles and poems have been published in over a hundred newspapers, journals and magazines.

Natasha was inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015. She also received the Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center and was named as one of San Diego’s “Top Guns” by the San Diego Business Journal.

The Washington Post says:  “Natasha Josefowitz is helping her generation, and those that follow, find their way into a successful, meaningful and fun older age…her optimism about aging is inspiring.”

Her books, available on Amazon, are linked below:

*A Hundred Scoops of Ice Cream
*Been There, Done That, Doing It Better! A Witty Look at Growing Older by a Formerly Young Person
*Fitting In: How to Get a Good Start in Your New Job (coauthor: Herman Gadon)
*He Writes, She Writes—A Dialogue in Contrasting Views Written in Verse (with Irwin Zahn)
*If I Could Touch the Sky… and Other Poems in Children’s Voices
*If I Eat I feel Guilty, If I Don’t I’m Deprived… and Other Dilemmas of Daily Life
*In a Nutshell: Feminine Verse, Feminist Verse
*Is This Where I Was Going?
*Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without—Hope and Healing after Loss
*Managing Our Frantic Lives: A Humorous and Insightful Look at What Makes Our Lives So Hectic, with 10 Strategies for Coping
*Natasha’s Words for Families
*Natasha’s Words for Friends
*Natasha’s Words for Lovers
*Over the Hill and Loving the View: Poems to Celebrate Growing Older
*Paths to Power: A Woman’s Guide from First Job to Top Executive; Instructor’s Guide to Paths to Power
*People Management: How to Be an Effective Leader in the Workplace
*Retirement: Wise and Witty Advice for Making It the Next Great Adventure
*Sex and Power: Workplace Issues
*Sixteen New Ways for Women to Succeed at Work
*Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again: A Witty View of How to Stop Counting the Years and Start Living Them
*Women’s Secrets: Witty Insights into the Thoughts, Feelings, and Dreams of Women
*You’re the Boss: A Guide to Managing Diversity with Understanding and Effectiveness

Nature vs nurture’s impact on our lives

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A kindergarten—two little girls: one is sitting quietly by her teacher, not really wanting to engage in the other children’s activities. She is shy. The other little girl can hardly be contained. She has to be caught running out the door and totters dangerously on the highest rungs

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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education

We need to know the past, for it predicts the future

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Reading the paper and watching the news on television increases my stress hormones on a daily basis. Like many of us today, I am depressed. There are so many distressing things happening: the growing homeless population, the unsafe streets, the increased drug use, the humanitarian crises around

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Natasha Josefowitz, USA

Six stages of reaction to bad medical news

Receiving an upsetting diagnosis and the six sequential reactions that follow By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently I noticed that things were getting a bit blurry, so I went to the Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego to have it checked out. Guess what? Dr. William Freeman, Director of the Jacobs Retina Center,

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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Gender gap: others’ rights versus others’ needs

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — According to the Center for American Women and Politics, of the 535 seats in Congress, women occupy 104. Women represent a quarter of the state legislators, 12 percent of state governors, and 18.4 percent of mayors. Of the Standard and Poor Fortune 500 companies, women hold less

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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food