If you think generational gaps are just about age, think again, say our featured speakers and experts in intergenerational communication. Generation gaps derive from differences in how a generation is raised, experiences growing up, and the impact of technology, among other factors. Our presenters punctuate their theories with humor and examples from pop culture, as we learn the tendencies of each generation's values, beliefs, attitudes, and concerns, and how they inform professional, as well as interpersonal interactions.

Presented by the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.

Featured speakers: 

IVAN M. ROSENBERG, Ph.D. is President & CEO of Frontier Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm. For over 25 years he has supported organizations in achieving performance breakthroughs through innovative approaches to problem-solving, supporting people working effectively together, and coaching and training leaders and managers. His clients include Amgen,  Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Financial Planning Association, among many others. Dr. Rosenberg has been a research engineer with Foxboro Company, an assistant professor with Rochester Institute of Technology and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and was founder and CEO of the national software firm, Distinctive Solutions Corporation. He is a past president of the Los Angeles Venture Association and a local Boy Scout Council, and has served on the boards of the Institute of Management Consultants, the Association for Strategic Planning, Legacy Software, and CyberNet Communications.

MORLEY WINOGRAD is CEO of Morwin, Inc., a government reform consulting company. His clients have included the Mayor of Los Angeles, the CAO of the County of Los Angeles, the State Legislative Counsel, and several local government agencies as well as nonprofits in the Los Angeles area. He is the co-author with Michael Hais of Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America, to be published in the fall of 2011, and Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics, named by the New York Times as one of their ten favorite books of 2008. Morley is a fellow with NDN, a progressive think tank in Washington D.C., and the New Policy Institute. Winograd was the executive director of the Institute for Communication Technology Management at USC's Marshall School of Business from 2001 until 2009. He is also a senior fellow with USC's Annenberg School's Center for Communication Leadership and Policy. He served as senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government from 1998 through 2000. His international reform clients have included the governments of Argentina, Columbia, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, and Mexico.