Challenge Factory

Challenge Factory Shaping workplaces where people thrive. Backed by research, driven by purpose, designed for action.

Challenge Factory is a trusted Canadian research and advisory services firm that helps organizations achieve productivity gains and impact that lasts. Grounded in best practices from the international field of career development, and guided by our conviction that the Future of Work is human, we bring an interdisciplinary lens to designing workplaces where people thrive and organizations meet today’s toughest workforce challenges with clarity and confidence. Our work focuses on four core areas:

🔹 Research & Foresight: Workforce studies, thought leadership, and labour market insights.

🔹 Talent & Leadership Advisory: Succession planning, leadership development, and workforce strategy.

🔹 Career Development: Tools and programs that support meaningful career paths and lifelong growth.

🔹 Workplace Culture: Building inclusive, values-driven, and future-ready organizations. As a proud B Corporation, we focus on purpose-driven strategies that unlock hidden workforce potential and drive change not only within organizations, but across the sectors and communities they influence. Our clients, from corporations to governments to higher ed institutions, turn to us for innovative solutions that challenge assumptions, simplify complexity, and deliver measurable outcomes.

➡️ Learn more: https://challengefactory.ca/

09/16/2026

When planes first flew, pilots followed the roads and rivers below. Most companies are adopting AI the same way. Here’s a shift from Lisa Taylor worth 3 minutes of your time. 🎥



Real change needs traction. 🌎 At Challenge Factory, we help organizations turn big workforce questions into practical st...
07/27/2026

Real change needs traction. 🌎

At Challenge Factory, we help organizations turn big workforce questions into practical steps forward.

Our work creates space for honest conversations, helps leaders understand the challenges inside their systems, and turns those insights into action.

Words like these reflect the impact we work toward every day: helping people rethink work, talent, and what comes next. 💡

— Quote from a Business Owner, Strategic Consultancy

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06/24/2026

Nobody actually wants career tips and tricks. We want work that means something. 🌱

Lisa Taylor, CEO of Challenge Factory, has spent 15+ years helping organizations build career infrastructure that actually works—for every generation, at every stage.

Because fixing how we work can’t happen in isolation. Just like we invest in our finances and our health, we need to start investing in the systems that make meaningful work possible for everyone. 💛

That’s the movement. And it’s just getting started.

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Campus career leaders, this one is for you. Employer partnerships matter more than ever, and strong relationships need m...
06/22/2026

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...
06/22/2026

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 d...
06/19/2026

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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06/17/2026

Longevity is having a moment...but the workplace hasn’t gotten the memo yet. ⏳

We’re told to plan to live longer, save smarter, and stay healthier. But when it comes to actually working through that longer life? The support drops fast, and older workers are left to figure it out alone.💡

Ageism and labour shortages are happening at the same time. That’s not a coincidence. That's a design flaw.

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Earlier this week, our CEO Lisa Taylor delivered the opening keynote presentation at AMC UNITE, a convention and trade s...
06/13/2026

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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06/12/2026

Career conversations are supposed to help people grow and move forward.

But often these conversations stay at surface-level.

People hold back.
Managers aren’t sure how to respond.
And what really matters goes unsaid.

Over time, that silence slows everything down.
In this recent radio interview, Lisa Taylor shares why psychological safety matters more than we think when it comes to career growth.

Because when people feel safe to be honest, internal mobility expands, and so does organizational capability.

💬 How safe does it feel to talk about career goals in your organization?

Want to take action on this? Check out our newly released playbook, Career Development as Strategy: A Practical Guide to Internal Career Centres, co-authored by Lisa Taylor and published by CERIC with CACEE as a partner (link below).

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06/10/2026

What if students could directly contribute to your business from day one? 👀

Today is the first day of the job for our next group of co-op students, and they are already doing real work.

Videos are being produced.
Content is being created.
Ideas are being turned into materials our team can use. 🔎

That does not happen by accident.

It happens when organizations are ready to bring students into meaningful work from the start, with the right support and structure around them.

Students bring energy, perspective, and developing talent. When they get the chance to contribute early, they build confidence faster and see how their work connects to the bigger picture. 🌱

Intergenerational teams work best when everyone has a role in moving the work forward.

What would change if more organizations gave students real work from day one?

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