DisruptHR Vancouver: Interview With Angie Coates

Angie Coates is a creative entrepreneur living in Vancouver, Canada. She’s also a designer, writer and talent consultant. Her passion is helping individuals lead more positive lives, create engaging communities, and build better work environments. Her approach is innovative; it combines over a decade of experience in business and management together with design and creativity. […]

Shake Up Your View Of Leadership

Some New Ground Rules For The Millennial Generation Since starting NextGenLeaders eight years ago, we’ve had the privilege of working extensively with Millennials. At the onset, my assumption was that great leadership is great leadership, and that most of my favorite principles and models would have as much currency for Millennials as they do for […]

3 Fs for a Healthier Workforce

The World Health organization makes it clear that there are significant benefits from an improvement in workforce health. Whilst investments in workforce health might instinctively seem to benefit employees the most, in fact the benefits are split between the employees and the organization. Having established that increasing workforce health is a mutually beneficial outcome, how […]

Millennials: You Can’t Fight Demographics

I was born in 1956, right in the middle of the Baby Boom, on the cusp between the Vietnam Generation and the Me Generation. Like many of my colleagues embracing our ‘Third Act’, our focus has shifted to helping clients with issues of succession and the development and coaching of the next generation. You can’t […]

Millennials and Volunteerism

A recent study[1] found that 92% of millennials are interested in making the world a better place.  That got me thinking:  Are millennials active as volunteers?  How can charitable organizations tap into their potential? Volunteering Trends The most recent data from Statistics Canada[2] paints an interesting picture. Volunteer participation is highest for the 15 to […]