Megan Gerhardt - Gentelligence: The Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational Workforce

Megan Gerhardt, PhD, is a professor of management, director of leadership development, and Robert D. Johnson Co-Director of the Isaac and Oxley Center for Business Leadership at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. She is also the founder of the Gerhardt Group, LLC, a leadership consulting practice.

Megan has published widely on individual differences, motivation, leadership, and generational differences in the workplace, and her work on Gentelligence has been featured on Forbes.com, NBCNews.com, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Inc. Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, MarketWatch, Business Insider, and the Houston Chronicle, among others. In 2017, her TEDx talk Why I Love Millennials and You Should, Too was released, kicking off the Gentelligence movement.

Josephine Nachemson-Ekwall is an associate director of financial crime prevention policy at UBS, focusing on implementation and adherence to policies, local requirements, and global standards. Josephines work in leadership development focuses on strengths-based development, individual coaching, and the importance of personal mission and values in driving ones life and career. She most recently gave a presentation at the Clifton Strengths Summit on Why Strengths Work and published an article on generational conflict and tension in December 2019.

Brandon Fogel is a senior consultant at Ernst & Young LLC in the People Advisory Services practice, which specializes in organizational change and people management. Brandons work in leadership development focuses on strengths-based development, effective teaming strategies, and the value of goal setting.

Writing this book has been amazingly rewarding and phenomenally challenging, in equal measure. We want to thank Matt, Zach, and Madeline for their love, patience, and contributions over the hundreds of hours we spent writing this book. We collectively apologize for the many nights spent staring into our computer screens and typing loudly when you were trying to sleep.

Many thanks to our fierce agent, Jessica Faust, at BookEnds Literary for pushing us to create the book she knew we could write and for inspiring us to always ask each other, What would Jessica think of this? all the way to the finish line.

Endless gratitude to our thoughtful editor, Kathleen Veslany, for lending us her incredible talents for every chapter (sometimes more than once!), for cheering us on, and for pointing out that reverse mentoring was not a Gentelligent term at all.

Our heartfelt thanks to our senior editor, Suzanne Staszak-Silva, and the entire publishing team at Rowman & Littlefield for taking a chance and bringing our book out into the world.

Love and honor to Miami University, where our author team first met six years ago. To Billy Price and all of the teachers and students (past and present) who have shown us the power of Gentelligence, we are so grateful. We send a special thanks to Beth Bjorlo, our extraordinary marketing consultant, and to the brilliant Rebecca Luzadis and Josh Schwarz for the friendly reviews, nine chapters worth of insightful feedback, and endless support in all things.

And, finally, to our parentsMarlene and John, Sophie and Johan, Stephanie and Howiefor passing down the most important things between generations: love, support, and unwavering belief in our potential.

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