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“Work is changing. Wealth is shifting. Generations are colliding. I help businesses respond.”
Keynote Briefings for leaders navigating Generational Change
Dr Eliza Filby is an historian, author and generational strategist who helps organisations understand the long-term forces reshaping work, wealth and society.
In an era defined by artificial intelligence, demographic change and the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history, leaders need more than trend commentary. They need a clear framework for understanding how economic and social change will affect their workforce, customers and institutions.
Through keynote briefings and leadership events, Eliza helps organisations step back from the short-term news cycle and see the bigger picture: how generational change is transforming the workplace, the economy and the structure of opportunity itself.
Eliza speaks regularly to global organisations, investor conferences, leadership teams and policy audiences about the future of work, generational economics and the long-term forces shaping the next twenty years.
Themes
The Future of Work: AI, Generations and the Collapse of the Career Ladder
Artificial intelligence is transforming professional work just as generational expectations around careers, authority and ambition are shifting.
In this keynote, Eliza explores how these forces are reshaping the modern workplace. As AI disrupts traditional career ladders and organisations struggle to retain younger talent, leaders must rethink how they develop skills, build leadership pipelines and manage ambition across generations.
The result is a clear framework for understanding how technological disruption and generational change are redefining the future of work.
The Great Wealth Transfer: Next-Generation Wealth and the Rise of the Inheritocracy
The twenty-first century will witness the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history, as trillions pass from Baby Boomers to younger generations.
This keynote explores how that transfer is reshaping the global wealth landscape. From the rise of next-generation wealth holders and the growing economic influence of women, to the changing priorities of UHNW families, the Great Wealth Transfer is transforming how wealth is managed, invested and inherited.
At the same time, the increasing role of family wealth in shaping life chances is creating what Eliza has labelled the “inheritocracy” that is a world in which inheritance, not income, increasingly determines opportunity. This talk examines what these shifts mean for investors, family offices, financial institutions and the future of social mobility.
Horizon Scanning: The Future Lifecycle
The traditional lifecycle is being reimagined, but not how we imagine just by simply tagging on years at the end. In this keynote, Eliza explores how longer lives are delaying adulthood, extending careers and redefining retirement. Drawing on demographic data and generational analysis, she examines the profound implications for workforce participation, housing, finance and consumer markets for the next twenty years.
Leaders gain a strategic perspective on how longer, more complex life journeys will reshape organisations and societies over the coming decades.
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“Eliza’s was a simply exceptional contribution to our recent conference. Insightful, inspiring, surprising, and occasionally (appropriately!) provocative – her analysis of Generational change, and what it means for a function like ours thinking about engaging our audiences, was just brilliant. My people were blown away, and are still talking about elements of what they learnt, and its application in their work, weeks after.”
- Stephen Doherty, Chief Brand & Corporate Affairs Officer, Aviva
“Eliza did a fantastic session at our relationship manager offsite – talking about the different views, attitudes and opinions of multiple generations. Eliza is an expert and highly engaging speaker and her subject matter is vital for all businesses to grapple with if we’re to adapt to ever more complex times.”
-David Durlacher, CEO, Julius Baer International Ltd
“Eliza has engaged our key leaders at all levels and in all sizes of groups; from one or two to six or seven hundred. She naturally takes people with her, makes them think again and come away talking and acting. At our AGM she was able to hold the attention of 700 people in the last session of the day. At a time when other presenters would have lost their audience figuratively and physically, Eliza engaged, entertained and educated.”
- Alastair MaCrow, CEO McDonalds UK
“Eliza presented to our London partners on navigating a multi-generational workforce. The talk was incredibly engaging with content clear, concise and informative. The feedback from the partners was uniformly positive with a number remarking that it was the best presentation that they had attended in years. I can’t recommend Eliza highly enough”
- Jason Glover, London Managing Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
CONTACT
Eliza regularly delivers keynote briefings for:
global leadership teams
investor and financial conferences
professional services firms
technology companies
government and policy organisations
To enquire about keynote, briefings or leadership events, please get in contact with Katy.
If you are interested in Eliza’s Generational Blueprint programme for workforces, you can find out more here and send your enquiries to Alex.