Event Description

Different perspectives can strengthen a team. Generational labels can get in the way.

For CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals, leading across age groups means navigating different approaches to communication, technology, career development, and client service. How do you turn those differences into better collaboration?

Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, for a practical program that challenges assumptions and focuses on understanding individuals. Explore how career stage, life stage, tenure, and technology exposure shape expectations—and why communication style alone reveals little about someone’s commitment or work ethic.

Discover ways to adapt communication and development practices, use reverse mentoring, and exchange institutional knowledge and fresh perspectives. Gain tools to strengthen collaboration, support succession, and help professionals of every age contribute their expertise.

Lead beyond the labels—and put your team’s full range of talent to work.

Objectives

Participants will learn to:
•  Separate legitimate differences in experience from unsupported generational assumptions.
•  Explore how career stage, life stage, tenure, and technology exposure affect expectations.
•  Create communication and development practices that work across age groups.
•  Use reverse mentoring and reciprocal knowledge transfer effectively.
•  Prevent differences in style from becoming judgments about work ethic or commitment.