The Gen Z Shift: Why Today's Leaders Keep Acting on the Wrong Signals

Young talent leaves faster, loyalty looks different, authority is questioned, and many rules that once made perfect sense no longer seem to work. The general explanation is that Gen Z is entitled, fragile, impatient, and difficult to manage.

But what if Gen Z is not the problem? What if the way we read them is?

Gen Z did not create the cracks in our organisations. They are simply the first generation making those cracks impossible to ignore. The question is how leaders choose to read the signals.

The Gen Z Shift isn't a playbook for managing Gen Z. It's a way to understand what this generation is revealing about your organisation.

Through real workplace stories and original concepts such as the Nanny Trap and the Friction Tax, The Gen Z Shift helps you recognise the signals you may be misreading, challenge assumptions that no longer work, and turn that understanding into meaningful change.

Benoit Vancauwenberghe is an international keynote speaker and generational strategist who has spent twenty years working with younger generations, leaders, and organisations across Europe, including LVMH, Heineken Group, and American Tourister, in industries ranging from luxury and consumer goods to travel and sports.

Whether you lead people, build brands, hire talent, shape culture, or simply want to understand what is changing in society and the world of work, The Gen Z Shift gives you a new way to read the generation reshaping work, leadership, and business.

Because the real question is not whether Gen Z can adapt to the world we built. It is whether the world we built is ready for what comes next.

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Lydbog: 24. september 2026