Challenge Factory

Campus career leaders, this one is for you.

Employer partnerships matter more than ever, and strong relationships need more than one-off connections.

Join Challenge Factory + CACEE for our upcoming webinar:

Why Your Employer Partnerships Are Carrying More Weight Than Ever

📅 Thursday, June 25, 2026
⏰ 12:00 to 1:00 pm ET
👥 For campus career leaders

Save your spot. Register now.
Link below 🔗

https://www.cacee.com/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=1701

Early talent needs more than an offer. They need the right infrastructure after day one.

Clear pathways. Manager support. Development systems. Career growth people understand and trust.

Join Challenge Factory and CACEE for our upcoming webinar:

How to Build an Early Talent Pipeline That Stays

📅 Tuesday, June 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 to 1:00 pm ET
👥 For HR, talent, and business leaders

Save your spot. Register now.
Link below 🔗

https://www.cacee.com/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=1700

Scenes from Stockholm 🇸🇪

This week, our Founder and CEO, Lisa Taylor, attended Future Talent Summit ( ) as an official delegate.

Considered one of the world’s most influential events shaping the global agenda on the future of work and education, the summit brought together leaders from around the world to explore how work, talent, and careers must evolve for today — and tomorrow.

Across two days of conversations, sessions, and shared ideas, one theme stood out:

Workforce challenges are strategic business challenges, and no strategy or ambition can be accomplished without people.

Today’s economic and technological realities require new thinking about mobility, careers, learning, and contribution at every stage of life.

Lisa shared a longer reflection from her time at the summit in the comments below.

Stay tuned. We have lots more to share from in the coming weeks!

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Earlier this week, our CEO Lisa Taylor delivered the opening keynote presentation at AMC UNITE, a convention and trade show that brought together Canada’s agricultural manufacturing community and their supply chains. 🔍

During her session entitled, ‘Talent, Tech, and Trust’ Lisa gave delegates a clear look at the forces reshaping the future of work — from shifting expectations to technology adoption — and she introduced Challenge Factory’s Broken Talent Escalator® framework, a powerful tool for understanding where career mobility is breaking down inside organizations today.

As AMC’s team described it: “Her message is clear: workforce complexity is real, but with the right systems, it becomes a strategic advantage.”

Thank you AMC for having us at this year’s convention. After the event, Lisa was also treated to the best of Sask hospitality. Here we’ve shared a few photos of her visit to a ranch too.

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Most organizations measure workforce success by what they spend on people.

Few measure whether those investments are working together to deliver impact.

That’s the gap CERIC set out to address.

And the national initiative they spearheaded, brought to life by Challenge Factory, changed how career development is understood across Canada.

Here’s what that work produced:

🔍 𝟲𝟮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that can now be referenced in policy forums across the country.

🔍 𝟭𝟯 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀, making the invisible infrastructure of career development visible for the first time.

🔍 𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 equipped with practical tools through the bilingual Retain and Gain playbook series.

What emerged wasn’t just data. It was a blueprint.

And the insight that connects all of it?

Career development isn’t a program. It’s the infrastructure that determines whether your workforce investments compound or evaporate.

This is exactly why CERIC hosted a webinar recently, with Lisa Taylor and Carli Fink, where they discussed: 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. Designed for HR and career development professionals, the question it answers matters at every level of leadership.

Link below to watch the replay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uJdf_vkwg