Events, Podcasts and More

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Being qualified for board service is only part of the equation. How you define your value, position your experience, identify the right board fit, and navigate an increasingly AI-driven selection environment can determine whether your candidacy gets noticed—or overlooked.

Each of the four complimentary sessions will begin with a focused presentation and then move into a facilitated conversation where participants can ask questions, share perspectives, and challenge assumptions about what it takes to compete for board opportunities today.

Tuesday, September 22 – How do I condense decades of experience into one compelling story?

• Board Capital: Positioning Yourself as a Strategic Board Asset (Your Documents)
  Why board candidacy is a value proposition, not a job search.

Thursday, September 24 – Is your positioning making you appear underqualified or invisible?

• Why Exceptional Leaders Get Overlooked

Pitfalls, traps, and tells, how to avoid sending signals that may influence candidate selection.

Tuesday, September 29 – How do I find my first board role or build a board portfolio career?

• Finding Your Board Fit: Where Experience Creates the Most Value

Explore six primary board types to identify where your experience, interests, and board capital may be the strongest fit.

Thursday, October 1 – Am I prepared to compete in an AI-driven selection environment?

• Competing in an AI World
  AI is changing how leaders are discovered, evaluated, and positioned. Strategies on remaining visible and credible.

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Guest Appearances

Too Old, Too Green, Too Much? Why Age Bias Hurts Us All, UnCeiling You by Dr. Natalie Luke, Natalie Luke, PhD, and Sheila Callaham discuss the critical issue of ageism in the workplace, emphasizing the importance of age equity within DEI strategies. They explore the hidden costs of ignoring age discrimination, the benefits of mixed-age workforces, and the concept of mutual mentoring. Sheila highlights the need for a longevity mindset to adapt to changing demographics and the evolving nature of work. The discussion also covers how individuals can navigate career gaps and how employers can create inclusive environments that value talent across all ages.

Learn the hidden costs to companies that ignore age bias and the benefits of mixed-age workforces; deepen your understanding of a longevity mindset and why it is essential to talent sustainability; and what employees and employers can do to address age bias across the age spectrum. 2 June 2025

Stop With The Age Labels : Shedding “OK Boomer” & “Entitled Millennial, Career Blast in a Half w/ Sheila Callaham, Executive Director, Age Equity Alliance (Podcast). We’ve created a system of fictional generational boxes that don’t exist in reality. “Boomer,” “Gen X,” “Millennial” – arbitrary labels with zero scientific basis. Yet we use them daily to dismiss, categorize, and stereotype people who were simply born during a random year span. The cost? 

• Innovation stifled. 
• Talent wasted. 
• Workplaces poisoned.

The coming demographic shift (longer lives, fewer births) will expose this charade. The winners will be those who see people, not labels. The question isn’t which generation you belong to. It’s whether you’ll perpetuate the myth or break it. 19 March 2025.

Fighting For Fairness, The Art 2 Aging w/ Sheila Callaham, Executive Director, Age Equity Alliance (Podcast). The urgent need for employers to recognize age equity in the workplace for their own benefit, how the elimination of DEI policies in the U.S. negatively impacts older workers, and how many of the policies of the Trump administration will lead to hardship, poverty, and homelessness for many who are currently over the age of 50. 7 March 2025.

Aging Matters, Age Equity in the Workplace w/ Sheila Callaham, Executive Director, Age Equity Alliance (Podcast). Many communities and state plans around aging only talk about caring. Don’t get me wrong, that is a high priority. But what these plans are missing is that when we think of longevity, we need to be holistic because older folks need support across ALL areas of life. Why? Because the majority of those in their 70s, 80s, and 90s are active and independent, but they are repeatedly discarded in our youth-focused society. Not dissing youth, they are the future. But seriously people. Let’s have some balance. 21 May 2024

Welcome to the Jungle, AI and ageism in the workplace, “AI has increased ageism in the workplace,” says Sheila Callaham, Executive Director at Age Equity Alliance, a company dedicated to expanding age equity in the workplace. “Most notably through the screening of candidates and ignoring applicants with more years of experience.” Read more! 28 Dec. 2023

Jeff Dewing, Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors Podcast, “Having the Courage to Change” A Panel Discussion on the Future of Work. Jeff Dewing is joined by Nicola Smith, Interim CEO at Timewise, an organisation championing flexible working and equality in the workplace. Simone Roche MBE is founder of Northern Power Women, a community spanning all sectors, genders and socio-economic groups that is dedicated to accelerating gender equality and social mobility. And Sheila Callaham, co-founder, Executive Director, and Board Chair for Age Equity Alliance, committed to helping businesses, organisations, and communities ensure Age Equity in the workplace through education, training, and process evaluation. 22 March 2023

Sheila Callaham speaking joins the ILC-UK for a discussion on the importance of age equity in the workplace in support of the #WorkforTomorrow initiative. 17 Sept. 2021

Why Age Equity in the Workplace Matters — A Workplace Justice Podcast. In this podcast, AEA Executive Director, Sheila Callaham talks to labor attorney Mahir Nisar and his associates about the underlying motivation of age discrimination in the workplace and how it impacts workers across the age spectrum. March 2021

Ageism in the Job Search. In this webinar, you’ll hear from 4 experts on overcoming ageism in the job search. January 2021

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