Karena regularly presents to students and recent graduates on the rapidly changing nature of work – and it’s impact on their present day choices in education, skills, and career.
She speaks to employers, educators and parents about the specific challenges that the Future of Work presents for GenZ – the first truly digital native.
She is known for her thought provoking and insightful ideas. Conversations encompass the focus on EQ skills(Emotional Intelligence), using and playing with Time, and understanding the difference between short and longer term objectives.
She urges students, parents and GenZ influencers to:
- shift their mindset
- heighten their awareness
- be better prepared to impact their choices and decisions
Her more popular keynotes focus on ‘Creating a new relationship with ever present Change’; and ‘Twisting Time to your advantage’
Below are Karena’s series of presentations. Please contact us if you would like to engage her to speak with your group or organization.
FUTURE OF WORK [FoW] Series
This series addresses FoW and the changing ‘Nature of Work’ from the length and type of workday, to preparing for a career in the gig-economy or entrepreneurial workforce, to planning social safety nets. Karena focuses on changing the conversations from employment to engagement and shifting career management responsibility from corporate units and rules to one’s own self.
Audience: GenZ, Millennials, Parents, PTA & PIC, Educators, Employers
Available Presentations Include:
- Future-proofing your career
- Looking forward to 2030
- Understanding the skill economy
- STEM or STEAM?
- Discovering opportunities in ‘hot’ job sectors, e.g. AI & Robotics
- Finding opportunities in a new economy that is shaped by non-traditional paths
Great career and life advice and how to manage both.
GenZ IN THE WORKPLACE Series
Starting in 2018, the first of 61 million Generation Z (GenZ) are joining the traditional workforce in the US. This is presents a dramatic transition for employee and employer alike. Transitions create concern about the unknown or unexpected. In these presentations Karena discusses what transitions may entail – from school to the workplace; between jobs or careers – and the mindset and skills required to make that change successfully. New technologies require us to upskill and embrace Change. Needed skills for young adults may be related to deadlines, team dynamics, conflict management, and expectations.
Audience: Employers, GenZ, Millennials, Educators, Parents, PTA and PIC, Influencers.
Typical Topics Include:
- Embracing GenZ into a multi-generational workforce
- Embracing Change as your new Normal
- Who is a Digital Native and what they do differently
- For GenZ – Blending the best of tradition with innovation
- A new workforce – keeping the best of the old and new
- Workplace survival skills for GenZ
Your session with my team was quite phenomenal, and it provides us with the basis of ongoing dialogue.
STRATEGIES & REALITIES Series
GenZ students and young professionals seek to have more control over their lives, and that demands being in a position of power and influence in your own life.
Using story, analogies and real life examples, Karena discusses how to incorporate a longer planningview based on setting a direction rather than a destination. She talks about how to integrate life goals strategically into daily deliverables, how to manipulate time to your advantage, and how to be flexible in your strategy.
Audience: GenZ, young Millennials, Influencers, Educators, Guidance, Parents, PTA and PIC
Previous Topics Include:
- Understanding Time, Trends & Transitions
- Playing with Time
- Flexible Thinking
- Tilt the Future in your favour
- From Survive to Thrive
- Discover your ‘well’ within Overwhelm