Ageism, Wisdom, and the Workforce We Cannot Afford to Lose with Dan Pontefract

CONNECT WITH JESSI ON LINKEDIN >>> HERE!Older workers are often treated as expensive, outdated, or past their prime.Dan Pontefract thinks that is not only wrong, but dangerous.In this episode of At Work, Under Pressure, Jessi Beyer sits down with Dan Pontefract, author of The Future of Work Is Grey, to talk about ageism, older workers, institutional knowledge, multi-generational teams, technology, AI, retirement, and why organizations lose far more than salary expense when they push experienced employees out.Dan shares how being removed from a speaker bureau roster after turning 50 sparked his work on age inclusivity and why companies need to rethink the way they view workers he calls “Rubies,” or older workers with crystallized intelligence, intuition, wisdom, and experience.In this episode, Jessi and Dan discuss:Why older workers are often underestimated, overlooked, or pushed out of the workforceHow organizations lose tacit knowledge, wisdom, and crisis-readiness when they eliminate experienced employeesWhy NASA, Ford, Boeing, and utility companies offer cautionary lessons and wild success stories about age and institutional memoryHow older workers and AI can complement each other instead of competingWhy multi-age teams can outperform age-segregated teamsHow leaders can support aging workers in physical, frontline, and labor-intensive rolesWhy mental health and suicide prevention require leaders to go directly to the people closest to the crisisThis episode is for HR leaders, executives, talent professionals, managers, workforce strategists, and anyone responsible for building a workplace that can perform now without sacrificing the wisdom it will need later.Because the future of work is not just young, fast, and digital.The future of work is also grey.CONNECT WITH DANLinkedInWebsiteThe Future of Work is Grey