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Name: Challenge Factory
Address: 1235 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, CA
Telephone: +14162170777
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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/

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

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

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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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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https://challengefactory.ca/internalcareercentreplaybook/

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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06/03/2026

What happens when organizations stop investing in entry-level talent? 🔎

A lot of the conversation right now is focused on uncertainty — are entry-level roles declining? Should we still hire co-op students? What changes with AI in the mix?

But the bigger question is about leadership: where will future leaders actually learn how to lead?

Entry-level work is where people build judgment, confidence, adaptability, and real-world problem solving. When organizations stop creating space for that, they're quietly weakening the leadership pipeline they'll need later. 💡

💬 Questions worth asking:

Are students getting real work or leftover tasks?

Are early-career roles part of your leadership pipeline?

If future leadership is on your agenda, entry-level talent needs to be there, too.

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05/27/2026

Worried about keeping your best people?

Here’s something worth your attention:

When employees can’t see opportunity inside your organization, they start to assume it doesn’t exist for them.

And that’s when they think about leaving.

Invisible career paths → people exit.

In this radio interview excerpt, Lisa Taylor shares why making opportunities visible inside your organization should be a leadership priority.

Because when people can see where they can go next:

Internal mobility increases
Engagement strengthens
And top talent stays

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📘 Want to go deeper?

Lisa co-authored a new playbook with CERIC (with CACEE as a partner):
Career Development as Strategy: A Practical Guide to Internal Career Centres

It explores how organizations can make internal pathways clearer, more connected, and easier to navigate. Check it out (link below).

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https://challengefactory.ca/internalcareercentreplaybook/

05/22/2026

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

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+14162170777

Website

http://www.challengefactory.ca/

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