RECORDING COMING SOON:
In this roundtable, senior leaders from Deloitte, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlassian, The Fosway Group, 8Levers, and Sponge, discuss the findings from the whitepaper, 'Mobilising Generation Numb'.
Mobilising Generation Numb.
A radical rethink of people enablement in an era of uncertainty.
Workforces everywhere are showing the same signals: exhaustion, detachment, cynicism, and a loss of connection. This is Generation Numb. A workforce shaped not by age, but by shared experience: sustained uncertainty, digital saturation, and relentless change. The new Sponge whitepaper, Mobilising Generation Numb, outlines both the malady and the remedy.
In this roundtable, host Myles Runham (Senior Analyst at The Fosway Group) is joined by Josh Cardoz, (CCLO at Sponge), Lori Niles-Hofmann (Founder and Tech-Strategist at 8Levers), Melissa Marts (Senior Director, Enterprise Capability at The Coca-Cola Company), Marshall Walker Lee (Director, Head of Customer Education at Atlassian), and Jeffrey Fedak, (Director at Deloitte). Together, they unpack the whitepaper’s findings and explore practical ways to turn resistance into momentum.
You'll learn how to:
- Build trust when employees are hardened against corporate promises.
- Restore connection in a workforce that's hyperconnected yet isolated.
- Break through numbness to reignite belief in the mission.
- Convert inertia into the energy that drives real transformation.
Now's the time for radical listening. Leaders who take this seriously will unlock the strategic muscle that separates thriving organisations from the rest.
Meet our speakers:
Myles Runham, Senior Analyst, The Fosway Group.
Jeffrey Fedak, Director, Global Consulting Services Learning Leader, Deloitte. (Audience: ~250,000 employees).
Melissa Marts, Senior Director, Enterprise Capability, The Coca-Cola Company. (Audience: ~70,000 employees)
Marshall Walker Lee, Director of Customer Education, Atlassian. (Audience: ~300,000 customer companies)
Lori Niles Hofmann, Founder and Tech Strategist, 8Levers.
Josh Cardoz, Chief Creative and Learning Officer, Sponge.
What is
Generation Numb?
Generation Numb represents a collective response to prolonged uncertainty and digital overload.
The numbers behind
Generation Numb.
When we surveyed employees across enterprise organisations, the data confirmed what leaders already sense: the workforce has fundamentally changed.
50% of employees say they feel numb, indifferent, or ‘nothing’ at all, when companies announce change. 63% report feeling disconnected from colleagues. And when asked to describe work in one word, responses like "autopilot," "meh," and "I'm here to get paid" dominated.
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