We are all used to hearing people complain about other generations of people: its’s not uncommon to hear middle age adults and young parents complain about millennials being snobbish, entitled, or know-it-alls. Or, millennials complain about older generations being narrow minded, boring, or being bad with computers.
Crystal Kadakia saw the tension between generation gaps and realized she could make a business out of helping companies connect employees of different ages. Her consulting business, called Invati Consulting, has the motto “We Design the Organization of the Future. Inspired by millennials, built for generations to come.”
Kadakia, after working in training programs for a Fortune 100 companies for 6 years, seems to communicate that her business opportunity lied in this realization, “Instead of focusing on generational differences and relatively meaningless comparison charts, I would focus on competencies we need in those moments of generation collaboration.”
Starting a consulting business may not seem like the most exciting venture, but Kadakia has no doubt hit on something big: she is trying to help organizations in this new approach on focusing on good things that can from age gaps in employees. Kadakia does speaking events, and it would no doubt be very interesting to hear her thoughts on how Millennials and Baby-Boomers, for example, have come together in various to do great things in the business worlds.
To learn more about Kadakia’s story, check out this Huffington Post Article.
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Connecting employees of different ages? Very very very unique. i am very interested to see how this turns out. I would be very intrigued to learn more about it. Great post!