Davia Temin

Davia B. Temin is a writer, speaker, and management consultant based in New York. She is president and CEO of Temin and Company Incorporated, an international reputation, risk and crisis management, strategic marketing and media, and executive coaching firm that specializes in cybersecurity crisis management, preparation, and recovery. She is also the author of the “Reputation Matters” column of Forbes.com, and pieces for Huffington Post and American Banker.

Prior to founding Temin and Company in 1997, Temin ran marketing, strategy, external affairs and crisis management for: General Electric Capital; Schroders in the US; Wertheim Schroder; Scudder, Stevens and Clark; Citicorp Investment Bank; and Columbia Business School, where she founded their magazine, Hermes. She also served on the executive staff of the Governor of Massachusetts.

From 2005 to 2014, Temin served as the first vice chair of the board of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America and chair of its Fund Development Committee. She spearheaded the largest campaign for girls in history when she announced their $1 Billion Campaign for Girls, for the Girl Scouts’ 100th Anniversary. Currently, she is the chair of the board of Video Volunteers, the India-based nonprofit that trains community investigative reporters to videotape the stories and injustices that surround them, and then show those videos on television, the Internet and in their town squares, in order to promote social justice.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Temin is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College, where she is a member of the board of managers and has served as chair of the College’s Long Range Planning Committee on Visibility and Leadership in Higher Education. She attended Columbia University for her graduate degree. She was a founding board member of The White House Project, and currently serves as a trustee or advisory board member of the Committee for Economic Development, ProPublica, Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board, and Columbia Journalism School’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Journalism. She is also an advisory board member and Thought Leadership Commissioner of WomenCorporateDirectors.

Awards/Honors

In 2015, Temin received the Girl Scouts of New York's highest honor, the Pinnacle Award for Leadership, honoring her work as a business leader and role model for girls and women both within Girl Scouting and the greater community.Temin was chosen as a delegate of the U.S. State Department to the Global Entrepreneurship Program to Greece in 2014. In 2013, 2014, and 2015 Temin was named to the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America – for “an extensive and positive contribution to building trust in business.”In 2012 she was named one of “30 Outstanding Women” helping girls and women around the world by the National Council of Research on Women. She has also been honored by the Girl Scouts of New York as their “Woman of Distinction.”

Personal life

Temin is married to Walter Kicinski, a former municipal banker, former chief financial and administrative officer of the New York State Power Authority, and former deputy chief of staff to the Governor of New York. She is featured in several books, including Wall Street Women by Anne Fisher (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement by Lee E. Miller and Jessica Miller (McGraw-Hill, 2002), The Board Game: How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors by Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire (Angel City Press, 2013) and Stiletto Network by Pamela Ryckman (AMACOM, 2013). Temin has also written “Rebuilding Trust in the Financial Markets,” a chapter in Trust, Inc. by Barbara Brooks Kimmel (Next Decade, 2013) and is currently writing a book on crisis management.