ABOUT DR. COLLEEN BATCHELDER I'm Not Just an Expert On Gen Z. I Work With Them Every Single Day.
And that distinction is what makes everything I tell you, on both sides, actually work.
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.
I’m the founder and CEO of Indiviti, a Forbes and Inc. Magazine contributor, and host of The Gen Z Evolution podcast. I hold a doctorate in Leadership and Global Perspectives from George Fox University.
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 this work 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 — giving Gen Z professionals the insider access the hiring process tries to keep from them, and giving employers the real-time intelligence about this generation that no lagging survey data can offer.
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 one of the few experts who coaches Gen Z professionals AND advises the organizations trying to hire them. 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 & Inc. CONTRIBUTOR
My weekly Forbes column and Inc. column reaches thousands of Gen Z professionals and the leaders who hire them 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.