

When Alissa Carpenter worked in higher education, she became inundated with students confiding that their happy exterior was a façade. Troubled by this growing trend, she started a company aptly named Everything’s Not Ok and That’s Ok to specifically bridge communication gaps across generations, job functions, and geographies in various organizations. In this episode, Alissa describes how she supports companies with a multi-generational workforce in leading necessary changes in an organization’s structure
Special Guest: Alissa Carpenter, CEO of Everything’s Not OK and That’s OK
Location: Philadelphia, PA USA
Show Notes:
- Team Building, Employee Engagement, & Millennial Retention: Alissa’s Training Programs
- Humanize Your Workplace: Alissa’s book, to be released in 2020
- Google Alerts: an automated content detection tool to help keep you informed of industry trends and developments
- Strengths Finder Assessment: a talent assessment tool to identify what you naturally do best
- LinkedIn Learning: online courses offered by LinkedIn to advance your skills
- Alissa’s TEDx Talk: How to Humanize the Workplace One Conversation at a Time



Jeff Orr is an expert in leadership holding two masters degrees in Business and Leadership (MBA, MSL) from Grand Canyon University. He speaks to thousands in the private sector as well as on University campuses about leadership, discovering and leveraging purpose, and the critical importance for developing the next generation of leaders. Jeff’s passion for helping leaders grow comes through in his engaging and energizing keynotes using humor and story as a catalyst for professional and personal growth. His most recent TEDx keynote, Millennial Leadership: The Key to Your Organization’s Success, has challenged thousands of leaders nationwide to rethink how to engage and develop the Millennial leaders in their organizations.
Ryan Parker is extremely passionate about helping entrepreneurs and businesses prosper. His goal is to live with character by doing the right thing whether someone is watching or not.














