The System Is Pushing Out Your Best People. Here's Why Age Is the Hidden Culprit | Lucy Standing
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Lucy Standing discusses the structural ageism in organizations that drives experienced professionals out of the workforce.
Most organizations lose their most experienced people without ever understanding why. Not through dramatic exits or public conflicts. Through a quiet, cumulative process of being overlooked, underinvested in, and gradually made to feel that what they bring no longer fits. And by the time anyone notices, the knowledge, judgment, and institutional memory they carried has walked out the door with them. Lucy Standing has spent years studying exactly this. As founder of Brave Starts — one of the UK's leading communities for over-50 professionals navigating career transitions — and author of The Age Against the Machine, she makes a case that most organizations aren't ready to hear: ageism isn't a collection of individual biases. It's a structural system. And until we name the machine, we can't dismantle it. In this conversation with Ivan Palomino, Lucy breaks down the forces driving experienced professionals out of the workforce — from retirement policies designed for a world that no longer exists, to recruitment processes that structurally filter out anyone with grey hair — and what individuals and organizations can actually do about it. What this episode covers: The invisibility…
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