SPOTLIGHT: Ushering in a Postgenerational Workplace With Mauro Guillen

Author and professor Mauro Guillén joins the Talent Angle to
explain how generational labels, such as “baby boomers” or
“millennials,” can be counterproductive in the workplace. Guillén
offers an alternative vision of a postgenerational society and
advocates for a workplace in which individuals are not confined
by their age. He urges HR leaders to instill a “perennial”
mindset in their organizations to foster intergenerational
collaboration and engage diverse talent pools. Mauro F. Guillén
is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where
he is a professor of management and vice dean for the MBA for
Executives Program. He combines his training as a sociologist at
Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to
methodically identify and quantify the most promising
opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic and
technological developments. He has received Fulbright and
Guggenheim fellowships, was honored with the Aspen Institute’s
Faculty Pioneer Award, and was elected to the Macro
Organizational Behavior Society and the Sociological Research
Association. Peter Aykens is chief of research in Gartner’s human
resources practice. He is responsible for defining research
coverage within the practice and building and leading research
teams that address clients’ key initiatives. In prior roles at
the firm, he spent over 25 years leading research teams focused
on banking and financial services strategy, producing numerous
studies that addressed business strategy, channels, marketing,
customer experience and product issues in financial services. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Olaf
College; a master’s degree in international politics from the
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now known as
Aberystwyth University); and a master’s degree and a doctorate in
political science from Brown University.