Show Notes
As experienced employees retire and fewer younger workers are available to step in to replace them, organizations risk losing critical knowledge faster than they can retain it. Our guest, Dan Pontefract, argues that leaders must be ready for this moment. In The Future of Work Is Grey, he shows how age confers unique strengths, such as deep expertise, steady reliability, and adaptive thinking—and why leaders who recognize and integrate those qualities will be the ones whose organizations stay resilient.
Dan is a leadership and corporate culture strategist with twenty years of experience in senior roles at SAP, TELUS, and Business Objects. He has since advised organizations like Salesforce, Virgin Media O2, and Nestlé. An award‑winning author of five leadership books, he also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review, teaches at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business, and has earned honors including the Thinkers50 Radar list and HR Weekly’s 100 Most Influential People in HR.
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