ABOUT DR. COLLEEN BATCHELDER
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I'm Not Just an Expert On Gen Z. I Work With Them Every Single Day.
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MY APPROACH THE STORY BEHIND THE STRATEGY
Most generational consultants study Gen Z from the outside. They read the research, build the frameworks, deliver the keynote, and catch their flight home. I do something different.
I run active job-search bootcamps and career-coaching programs for Gen Z professionals — right now, in real time. I’m on the calls with them. In the rejection spirals. In the offer negotiations and the first-week-on-the-job anxiety.
That real-time intelligence is what I bring to every Fortune 500 boardroom. Not last quarter’s data. The living, breathing, current reality of what this generation values, fears, and needs.
My Journey How I got here
My path to becoming the Gen Z Workplace Expert wasn’t linear — which probably explains why I’m actually good at understanding people who don’t fit a linear mold.
I started in theater and singing opera. Before the doctorate, before Forbes, before the Fortune 500 boardrooms — I was learning what it means to truly understand human behavior. To read a room. To translate emotion into something an audience can feel and act on. Those skills never left me. They became the invisible infrastructure of everything I do as a consultant and speaker.
Over the next 20+ years, I built a career as a Fortune 500 management consultant.
I worked with organizations across aerospace, finance, retail, non-profits, and higher education. And I watched the same pattern play out, company after company: hire talented young people, fail to understand them, lose them, wonder why, hire more.
I founded Indiviti to break that cycle — and to give Gen Z professionals the insider access that the hiring process tries to keep from them.
WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE DR. COLLEEN What Makes My Approach Different
A Doctorate
in Leadership
My consulting isn’t based on intuition or anecdote. It’s built on rigorous methodology, 20+ years of organizational research, and direct access to current Gen Z data that most researchers don’t have. This means every recommendation I make is defensible, tested, and built to last.
Real-Time Gen Z Intelligence
While other consultants are reviewing last quarter’s survey data, I’m actively coaching Gen Z professionals. I hear what they’re telling their friends about your company before it shows up in your Glassdoor reviews. That’s intelligence no survey can capture.
Both Sides of the Equation
I’m the only Gen Z consultant who also coaches Gen Z directly. That dual perspective means my recommendations aren’t theoretical — they’re tested in real hiring conversations, real onboarding experiences, and real workplace dynamics happening right now.
FORBES CONTRIBUTOR
My weekly Forbes column reaches thousands of managers and Gen Z professionals simultaneously. I’m constantly in dialogue with both audiences, and the questions they ask me shape the research and strategy I bring directly to my clients.