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Five Generations at Work

How we win together, for good

  • 23 July 2024

A fresh, evidence based and solutions focused approach to leveraging intergenerational diversity.

 

Bypassing the current divisive negative and stereotype-fueled discourse and drawing upon six years of research and case studies from leading businesses and other types of organisation, to produce a definitive playbook for empowering intergenerational collaboration, innovation and productivity at work.

Background information

Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good explores how to maximise the dynamics of our generational diversity to create more collaborative and competitive organisations.

 

This book is an energising and pragmatic read, which unpacks six years of research and work with organisations and individuals who are taking progressive action to lead from lenses versus labels, evidencing the value of generational diversity.

 

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work.

In the context of a world in flux and polycrisis, our diversity is a powerful force multiplier for good, if we debunk the stereotypes and know how to unlock it.

 

The book includes case studies and conversations written through the voices of five generations and four continents across global corporates, family businesses, education and foundations, including:

  • Ahlström
  • The EY Foundation
  • The Financial Times
  • Hoffmann-La Roche
  • Imaginable Futures
  • LVMH
  • Liberty Global
  • MARS
  • Mission 44
  • The Oxford Character Project
  • St Gallen Symposium
  • The UNDP
  • Samsung
  • and more …!

 

This book is a transformative read for all business leaders, people leaders and CEOs. Importantly, it stands out because it was written for every generation – for students, first career movers, founders, managers, leaders and board members.

 

Above all, this book is a call to action to us all.

When humanity is being challenged by the forces upon us, from climate, to geopolitics, to technology, we need to draw on the strengths of every generation for sustainable and systemic change for good.

More about our guests

Patrick Dunne

Chair and board member

Author of award winning Boards book

Rebecca Robins

Global brand & leadership advisor

Trustee & intergenerational expert

Milton Nkosi II

Journalist and media thought-leader

Former BBC News Africa Bureaux Chief

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Patrick Dunne OBE

Experienced Chair, Serial social entrepreneur, VC and PE Investor.

Confronting Conflict, smart materials business D3O and was the founder of Warwick in Africa.

 

Experienced Chair, Serial social entrepreneur, VC and PE Investor. Chair of board consultancy Boardelta and the charities Royal Voluntary Service and ESSA- Education Sub Saharan Africa.

 

Patrick’s executive experience was with Air Products and with FTSE 100 private equity 3i Group plc where during a 26 year career as an investor and leader he was Communications Director, a member of its Operating committee and Chair of its Operational Risk forum.

 

He has supported Chairs across a wide range of sectors in Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East and North America in transforming the effectiveness of their boards through Boardelta. A member of the Higgs review and author of the award winning “Boards” he has also helped to establish many successful courses on board skills including for the BVCA, Invest Europe and the Financial Times. He is the co-author of Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, For Good

Patrick has a passion for education and is a former member of the General Council of the University of Warwick, a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management, an Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School and a member of Founders4Schools. He is also a former Chair of the Oversight Board for the Chartered Management Consultant and trustee of the Chartered Management Institute.

 

He was also the founding Chair of the EY Foundation, Chaired Leap

Patrick was awarded an OBE in the King’s 2023 Birthday Honours list for services to charity and philanthropy in Africa and the UK.

Rebecca Robins

Founder and CEO, Advisor & Best-selling business author

Rebecca Robins is Founder and CEO of a consultancy at the intersection of brand, culture and leadership, working with owners, founders and leaders across the world. She is known for her changemaking across organisations and for her transformative energy working with individuals and teams. 

 

Having established and led a global centre of excellence in professional leadership, she also lectures and teaches on leadership programmes at leading Business Schools and Universities. With a 20-year career in brand and business consultancy, most recently as Global Director and Chief Learning and Culture Officer at Interbrand, the leading brand agency, Rebecca’s work spans all sectors, working with leading brands (from LEGO to LVMH) and organisations. 

 

Rebecca’s advisory work focuses on companies dedicated to being part of collaborative solutions in their respective field. An advocate of how we invest in people and culture, she is also an Advisory Board Member at the Chartered Management Institute. Giving back to education is at the beating heart of her purpose, including serving as Board Trustee and Committee Chair at the EY Foundation. 

 

A linguist and philosopher by background, Rebecca holds a First Class degree, and a Masters in Philosophy from Cambridge University. A best-selling author of leading business books on brands and cultures of excellence, including Meta-luxury, Rebecca’s third book (and the most important yet) is launching in September: Five Generations at Work: how we win together, for good

Milton Nkosi

Milton Nkosi is a former BBC News Africa Bureaux Chief and South Asia Bureaux Editor.

 

He is an award-winning journalist and media thought-leader. He joined the BBC in the late 80s just before the release of Nelson Mandela, covering all the township wars and the subsequent political negotiations, major stories across the continent and beyond. 

 

He has covered major stories in Angola, the then Zaire which is present-day DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and many more others. 

He has interviewed Walter Sisulu, Harry Belafonte, former US President Bill Clinton, Former UK Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, F.W. De Klerk, Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President Jacob Zuma, President Thabo Mbeki, President Kgalema Motlanthe, President Cyril Ramaphosa, Winnie Mandela and many other leaders. 

 

He studied journalism at the BBC Academy’s College of Journalism in London and management and leadership at Ashridge College in Hertfordshire. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues.

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