What if the biggest challenge facing your organization right now is not strategy, not technology, and not the economy, but the fact that 38 percent of your Gen Z employees have taken a mental health day after receiving feedback? This week, Jon Goehring and Coach Jim Johnson welcome Dr. Andrea Mata, known as Dr. Dre, clinical psychologist, speaker, high school football coach, adjunct professor, and author of a parenting book, for one of the most direct, practical, and genuinely eye opening conversations the Lounge has ever had.

Dr. Dre opens with a reframe that every leader working with younger employees needs to hear: Gen Z is not broken. They are under equipped. She traces the root of the problem back two decades to a well-intentioned but consequential shift in parenting philosophy, explains how those patterns then carried into schools, an ...