Who Are the Best Multigenerational Workforce Speakers?
Some of the most established multigenerational workforce speakers include Ryan Jenkins, Jason Dorsey, Lindsey Pollak, Lynne Lancaster, David Stillman, Cam Marston, and Karen McCullough.
Each brings a different approach to generations, leadership, and the changing workplace, so the best speaker for an event depends on the audience and the outcomes the organization wants to achieve.
But before choosing a generational speaker, there are a few things meeting planners should consider.
Explore leading multigenerational workforce speakers who help organizations better understand Gen Z and other generations, strengthen cross-generational collaboration, and prepare leaders and teams for the future of work.
What Should You Look for in a Multigenerational Speaker?
Generational differences can be fascinating. They can also be easily oversimplified.
A great generational speaker shouldn't use the topic to encourage finger-pointing or reinforce stereotypes. The goal should be to create greater understanding of the experiences and environments that have shaped different generations.
Three things are especially important:
1. Research and expertise. Look for speakers who have conducted research, written books, developed frameworks, or spent significant time studying generations and workplace behavior.
2. No generational shaming. Be cautious of presentations built around blaming Boomers, mocking Millennials, criticizing Gen Z, or declaring one generation superior to another.
3. Generations should be clues, not absolutes. Someone's generation can provide useful context for understanding behavior, but it never tells you everything about an individual.
The best presentations help every generation better understand one another and recognize the strengths each brings to the workplace.
Multigenerational Workforce Speakers to Consider
Ryan Jenkins is a Wall Street Journal bestselling generational author of books including The Millennial Manual and The Generation Z Guide. He focuses on generations, team connection, leadership, and the future of work. His approach helps audiences understand how generational differences provide clues about where work is heading and how organizations may need to adapt leadership, communication, collaboration, marketing, and selling. Ryan’s work emphasizes the strengths every generation brings to the table, helping people navigate generational differences without stereotypes, finger-pointing, or generational shaming.
Jason Dorsey is a generational and behavioral researcher and President of The Center for Generational Kinetics. His work is heavily research-driven, including more than 200 studies, and covers generational differences, workforce trends, Gen Z, consumers, and the human side of AI.
Lindsey Pollak is a multigenerational workplace expert and author of The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace. Her programs address topics including leading across generations, early-career talent, communication, and helping generations thrive in an AI-enabled workplace.
Lynne Lancaster is a generational expert and co-author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor. Her speaking topics include leading, communicating, recruiting, retaining, marketing, and selling across generations.
David Stillman has spent decades studying generations and co-authored When Generations Collide and The M-Factor with Lynne Lancaster. His work has also explored Gen Z and how emerging generations are changing the workplace.
Cam Marston speaks and consults on generational dynamics in the workplace and marketplace, with an emphasis on how demographic and generational changes influence leadership, sales, communication, and business.
Karen McCullough focuses on turning generational differences into greater understanding, collaboration, and connection. Her current generational program specifically addresses moving beyond stereotypes and recognizing the strengths different generations bring to work.
Why Does Generational Expertise Matter?
Today's workplace includes multiple generations working side by side, and that complexity isn't going away.
Ryan believes generations can provide a particularly useful window into the future of work. Emerging generations enter the workforce shaped by newer technologies, parenting approaches, economic conditions, cultural norms, and communication habits. Understanding what's changing can help organizations anticipate how leadership, communication, employee experience, marketing, and selling may need to evolve.
And as the pace of change accelerates, Ryan believes the traditional spans separating generations may become less useful over time. The workplace of the future could require organizations to understand increasingly nuanced age cohorts rather than relying solely on four or five broad generational labels.
That's why the objective shouldn't be to decide which generation is right.
It's to better understand what's different, appreciate what each generation brings to the table, and equip people to work better together.
Looking for a Multigenerational Workforce Speaker?
Ryan Jenkins helps organizations understand generational differences without stereotypes or finger-pointing, then equips audiences with practical strategies to lead, communicate, and build stronger connections across generations.
If you're planning an event around generations, Gen Z, leadership, or the changing workforce, tell Ryan's team about your audience and what you want them to walk away with.
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