Intergenerational Relationships & Work
Ages & Stages: How Women Work & Lead Across Seasons of Life
Workplace conversations across generations often fall into stereotypes. These caricatures erode trust and hinder growth. Yet God invites us to work across generations with mutual respect and curiosity. Seasoned leaders and newer workers can run together in tandem. In this session, we will explore:
How can you move past generational stereotypes to build real collaboration and mentorship?
How can seasoned leaders honor their hard-won experience while making room for fresh ideas?
How can emerging workers share new insights while gaining long-term perspective from older colleagues?
What practices help you lay down the need to "know the answer" so you can learn from others?
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Director of Programs and Operations, Faith Co-Op
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Mel Pipkin brings nearly a decade of experience spanning nonprofit and technology organizations, with a background in marketing, operations, events, and strategic growth. A graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Public Relations, she loves connecting people, creating meaningful experiences, and helping ideas come to life. At Faith Co-Op, she is passionate about equipping working professionals to see their daily work as a place to encounter God and serve others. Whether she's planning events, telling stories, or building systems behind the scenes, Mel is energized by bringing joy, excellence, and hospitality to everything she does.
Generational Leadership Expert & Keynote Speaker
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Shawn Johnson believes God often does His best work through meaningful conversations. As a speaker, leadership consultant, and Generational Bridge Builder™, she equips women to build meaningful relationships across differences in age, experience, life stage and perspective through curiosity, understanding, and practical conversation skills. Known for her warm, engaging style, Shawn encourages women to replace assumptions with curiosity, ask thoughtful questions, and discover how conversations can become bridges that strengthen trust, deepen connection, and inspire growth. Participants will leave encouraged, equipped with practical tools, and inspired to cultivate relationships that flourish across every season of life.
Marketing & Communications Coordinator, Denver Institute for Faith & Work
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Grace serves as our Marketing and Communications Coordinator at Denver Institute. Originally from Chapel Hill, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Tar Heels!) before moving to Colorado for a professional and spiritual development fellows program. During that time, she joined Denver Institute part-time before coming on full-time staff in 2025. Grace's weekend updates typically include volleyball in the park, skiing anywhere there's snow, or pulling friends up fourteeners.
Advisory Board Director for Growth Companies and Start-ups
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Dr. Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne is a senior product executive with over twenty years of leadership experience at companies including Meta, Amazon, Yahoo, Roku, McAfee, and Intel. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where she was a pioneer and the first Cameroonian woman to earn the degree. Today she leads a portfolio career that blends fractional product leadership, board advisory work, and speaking and writing on faith, purpose, and leadership. She is the author of the award-winning memoir "For Such a Time as This: From Humble Roots in Africa to Silicon Valley Leadership" and the children's picture book "The Girl Who Dreamed Beyond the Ocean".
Marie-Ange also created the PURPOSE™ leadership framework, which she teaches to audiences around the world, and she serves on advisory boards for Bay Area Center for Faith Tech and Work, Faithful Ventures, and Seven International University. She is married to her wonderful husband Marc, and together they are raising two young children. Marie-Ange is deeply passionate about faith and work integration, and believes in walking out one's calling with faith and courage, in every season and every room.
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Diver Deeper
Across the Table
Shawn Johnson, who was featured on this webinar, has done extensive work on intergenerational relationships at work. Download this free resource to learn more about how conversations across generations help women become more confident, resilient, connected, and equipped to make wise choices.
Busting Myths about Mentoring with Laura Flanders
What comes to mind when you read the word "mentor"? Sometimes we can limit our learning opportunities by clinging to a rigid definition or misinterpretation of what it looks like to be a mentor or a mentee. In this episode of the Faith and Work Podcast, Joanna Meyer dives into the topic of mentorship with Laura Flanders, a certified executive coach and the founder of Taproot Innovations.
A Liturgy for Those
Fearing
Failure
Seeking a humble confidence in a sea of imposter syndrome? Download this liturgy, courtesy of Every Moment Holy, to read in times where imposter syndrome creeps in.
The success of your endeavors is not yours to judge. / He works in ways that you cannot comprehend. / And in his economy, there will be no waste. / Even what you judge as failure, / God will tool to greater purpose.
(COPYRIGHT © 2017 DOUGLAS MCKELVEY)
ABOUT THE SERIES
Ages & Stages
HOW WOMEN WORK & LEAD ACROSS SEASONS OF LIFE
Many of us know the pressure of balancing professional ambitions with personal calling. Yet standard workplace advice often misses the real tensions Christian women encounter across different life stages.
Whether you are navigating unpaid labor, leading solo, managing a dual front of family care, or bridging generational divides at work, your calling is a whole-life response to God.
Join Women, Work, & Calling as we host Season 2 of Ages & Stages—a four-part webinar series exploring the challenges and opportunities unique to distinct life seasons. Each webinar features the experiences of women who are living and leading through these seasons.
