the details
The Economics of Diversity Series presents: “Gen Z & Intergenerational Dynamics”
This intensive one-day workshop explores the evolving dynamics between generations in the workplace through an economic lens, exploring how generational differences shape labour market participation, management practices, and mental health in the workplace. Discover data-driven insights to better understand the economic impact of intergenerational teams and how to harness their full potential.
Date: Monday, 16 March 2026
Venue: Cohen Quad, University of Oxford
Time: 09:30 – 18:00
Fee: £100*
* Alumni of the Economics for Business Leaders programme get a special discount.
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Key Themes
Unique Challenges for Gen Z in the Labour Market:
- How structural shifts in the economy are reshaping career opportunities for Gen Z
Managing a multigeneration workforce:
- Navigating contrasting leadership and communication styles across generations to drive collaboration and productivity.
Understanding Mental Health Crisis:
- Exploring the economic and social factors driving the mental health crisis faced by Gen Z.
- Examining how organisations can respond effectively, creating supportive environments, inclusive policies, and sustainable wellbeing strategies that meet the needs of younger employees.
Speakers & Panellists
Grace Lordan
Dr Grace Lordan is a LSE professor, global public speaker and thought leader. She is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and the creator of the MSc in Behavioural Science at the LSE. Grace is an expert on labour market skills, building productive organisations, inclusive leadership, women’s progress in the workplace, the future of work and individual success.
Grace served as an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board. She currently leads the £2 million ESRC funded diversity and productivity from education to work (DAPEW) project. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals and she has written for the Financial Times, Fortune, Fast Company, MIT Sloan Management Review , Reuters and Harvard Business Review. Grace is a regular speaker, educator and advisor to blue chip finance and technology firms.
Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future you Want, is her first book.
mATHIAS jENSEN
Mathias is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. His research agenda centres on inequalities in the labour market.
Currently, Mathias studies labour market inequalities from three distinct perspectives. First, in the roles of gender and family dynamics in the labour market. Second, he explores the economic effects of parental death on children. Third, Mathias studies the outcomes of children of immigrants relative to the children of locals.
With these research projects, Mathias aims to contribute to a nuanced understanding of labour market dynamics, earnings disparities, familial influences, and the socio-economic trajectories of diverse populations.
Paul Johnson CBE
Paul is the Provost of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 2011 to 2025, leading it to become the UK’s most trusted voice on public finance. A former senior economist at HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority, he is the author of Follow the Money, a columnist for the Times and a regular commentator across UK media.
Rebecca Robins
Rebecca is a world-recognised practitioner in leadership development and organisational transformation, and an expert in high-performing cultures.
With over 20 years’ experience as a brand management consultant across Europe, the US and Asia, she has advised hundreds of clients across industries and sectors. Rebecca works with a range of clients, including large corporates, business schools, family businesses and social enterprises, with clients including AstraZeneca, British Airways, Hugo Boss, JLR, LEGO, LVMH, Microsoft, RELX, Reuters.
She leads and teaches on world-leading Executive Education programmes, including Cambridge University, Oxford University, Emeritus and The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, working with rising and senior leaders.
Her advisory work includes Quilt.Ai and the Chartered Management Institute. Education and social mobility are at the beating heart of her purpose – she is an experienced NED, including serving as Trustee at the EY Foundation.
Rebecca is the author of three books, including the award-nominated “Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good” and “Meta-luxury: Brands and the Culture of Excellence” , and is a regular contributor to leading academic research. Recognised as a leading practitioner on understanding and maximising the intergenerational workplace, she keynotes at conferences across the world and comments for media including The BBC, The Business of Fashion, The FT and The New York Times.
Rebecca holds a First Class degree and an M.Phil from Cambridge University.
kate tojeiro
Kate Tojeiro is an Executive Coach, Board Advisor, media contributor and author (fiction and non-fiction), with over 15 years working at C level with FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and Nasdaq listed companies across the world. She co-hosts the Lifestream podcast with her daughter Tabi Tojeiro, an actor, their guests are from all walks of life talking about what inspires them and how they get through the difficult days.
In her coaching practice, both one-one-one and in groups, she mixes conventional and unconventional approaches underpinned by the latest in neuroscience. It is her mission to help the leaders of today, and tomorrow, be successful individually and collectively by embracing their fullest human potential and overcoming fear.
A regular fixture on BBC radio and a respected voice across the media, Kate works with leaders, teams, and the next generation of rising stars.
She is an advocate for those that have grown up in the shadows of addiction and an ambassador for Child Of, a Community Interest Company that tackles social issues through the power of art supporting those touched by addiction or in recovery.
She is also an associate faculty member of the Cambridge University Judge Business School and a Fellow of the RSA.
the history
The history of OUBEP is in many ways the history of changing social attitudes towards business in Britain over the past 70 years.
OUBEP was founded by a group of business leaders during the period following the Second World War – a time of immense political, economic and societal change – “…to bring the ‘leaders of tomorrow’ from the public and private sectors together, to better understand modern economic thinking, and therefore the bigger picture in which they would one day operate.”
Over the last 70 years, OUBEP has evolved and adapted to meet the requirements of the modern world. However, to this day it maintains its foundational intent to bring together a gathering of bright minds to better understand and discuss the impact of the global economy, and to ultimately benefit business and society.