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74% of employers say Gen Z is difficult.

Ignoring them won’t make them easier to work with.

A talent development agency on a mission to elevate multi-generational workplaces and young leaders through company-wide, data-driven culture solutions, 1:1 and cohort advisory engagements, results-getting and results-getting workshops.

Keri Mesropov presenting to a group of young people in a conference room

How can we steward emerging leaders to meet the challenges of today and benefit us, our business?

We are in a time of radical evolution and transformation. We face issues of scale and scope that at times seem insurmountable.

On to this scene comes Gen Z. Born in 1997 and after, they are entering adulthood amid uncertainty and turmoil.

They are creative, passionate and entrepreneurial. They value justice and equity. They are different, and they want a different world.

But for these emerging careerists to drive transformative change, they need confidence, emotional intelligence and advanced social workplace savvy well beyond their years and pre-career learnings. And Leaders, with over 30% of the workforce now a Gen Zer (and growing), we are the ones who must attend to these gaps.

Spring exists to launch Gen Z leaders into the professional world, unlocking and accelerating them to keep pace in the companies they are part of. We also work with entire organizations who want to benefit from developing the young talent on their team. It is these young leaders who will have the greatest long-term impact on our clients’ success.

With a focus on data-driven discovery, proven talent growth services, plus individual and team coaching, Spring equips both the full organization and its next generation of leaders to tackle the challenges facing the work world today.

The success of our young people is a two-way street: they must level up their skills, and we must foster their ability to do so.

Work with Spring to empower your organization to leverage the generational diversity of your team.

Client Accolades

  • I have no doubt that my leadership growth has been hyper-fueled by Keri’s thought-partnership. Leadership can be solitary, and Keri has become my accountability buddy. With her bespoke and candid recommendations, I have become a more impactful leader because of her guidance.

    Bryan Woo, Managing Director, British Columbia Non Profit Housing Association

  • Throughout our time together, I’ve seen not only Keri's incredible collaborative skills but also her thoughtful leadership abilities. She has a way of fostering community and motivating a team to deliver high-quality work in an inclusive, exciting environment.

    Katelyn Anderson, Media Planner, Carmichael Lynch

  • I met Keri while I was midcareer and a bit lost in a large organization. She quickly reminded me that solutions were just at my fingertips, and within my mindset. Keri instilled in me a sense of confidence and leadership, and a mindset that I have the power to change attitudes, which in turn changes culture. This stays with me to this day.

    Jaspreet Sandhu, Director of Public Affairs, Communications and Research, Ontario Arts Council.

  • I worked with Keri early in my career and now that I am a manager myself I can look back on the time we worked together and appreciate her even more. At the time, she oversaw me along with several young team members. We had a lot of responsibility, even though we were just starting out. She trusted us and never made us feel like we weren’t capable of what was asked. And if we needed help she was always there to provide guidance and advice without judgment. She’s the type of leader I aspire to be— and I see her work at Spring being such a natural progression of what she has built her career doing — empowering young workers to do great things.

    Heidi Schroeder Aulakh, Director, Client Service, SG Creative

  • Working with Keri was a breath of fresh air. From our first conversation to today, she has been an incredible resource as she has guided us through a strategic planning process. She is insightful, kind, thought-provoking, and knowledgeable, and SHE MADE IT FUN! Strategic Planning can be a process that so many organizations dread, but with Keri, it was inspiring and invigorating. I can speak on behalf of our organization when I share that we left our session excited and empowered. Best of all, we feel organized and able to achieve our goals!

    Grant Golson, Executive Director, First Act Theatre Arts

  • Keri grounds me in my most intentional self. We have done the absolutely essential work of naming values, owning strengths, and building a future vision that fuels me individually and informs company-wide decisions. I look to Keri for both tactical and big picture guidance, and her words are centering for me, and for my team. I appreciate that the work we do is truly a mix of getting things done and catapulting possibilities, and Keri is a figure that my senior staff and board can and do look to as a partner in our shared success and growth. Keri sees me as a furnace, and I believe her and burn brighter because of her reflections.

    Katie Hallman, Executive Director, Theatre Cedar Rapids

  • Keri made me feel seen and then she helped me see myself better. As a coach and strategy partner, she helped me explore the personal and professional aspects of myself that I would need to tap into to take the next steps in my career. She pushed me to dig deeper, articulate my views more precisely, and ask more interesting questions of myself and others, and that practice has had a profound impact on my life. Thank you Keri!

    Mara Koss, Business Intelligence Analyst, Situation

  • Keri sends my mind into productive circles and I so appreciate her observant conversation. It's amazing to me how someone you don't know well can see and hear you so quickly. I feel like Keri sees me and hears me and is pondering alongside me.

    Laurie Zom Hofe, Professor of English, Concordia University

  • I worked with Keri at an integral time in my professional development: when I found myself crossing over from an individual contributor to a role in leadership. Working with Keri provided me with valuable lessons in navigating complex business and peer challenges, storytelling and the art of selling ideas. She was an incredible role model and entered every conversation open and active. She is not only a lovely person, but a true partner in every sense of the word.

    Melissa Marano, VP Experience Strategy, RAPP (Omnicom Agency)

  • Running a business has many needs. Since bringing Keri on to join the team,  I know I have a competent, ambitious person to lead our charge in attracting, developing and retaining the type of people we want to build our company with. She’s instinctive, smart and emotionally intelligent. I don't want to imagine where we would be without her.

    Jason Ganahl, Founder, GQue BBQ

Photo: Adam Kissick/APAP

About Keri

I’m nervous about our future. With Spring, I’m positively channeling that fear into action.

My passion has always been to steward people and their talents, and I am activated when people bloom professionally. With more than 30+ years in executive leadership and talent development, I have an accumulation of real and wide experience that has informed the tools, frameworks, offerings and values Spring brings to each engagement.

For the last several years, I have studied, worked with and been an embedded observer of Gen Z in their many settings. I’ve researched their persuasions, ignitors, inhibitors, habits and interests. I’ve also witnessed the interactions between generations in the workplace. There are organizations who see the potential and many who fail to, allowing the refrain of ‘these damn kids’ or ‘okay, Boomers’ to impede progress and results. It’s these environments that galvanize Spring to help them cultivate their collective, multi-generational strengths, so that all can thrive.

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