Denise Archie and her son Marcus Archie are recognised as experts in their field of mother/son relationships, living, loving and laughing together and are a passionate 'cheer squad' for the people who join them on their learning journey. Together as entrepreneurs, educators, facilitators and coaches they have built and now run several businesses in Australia and the United States. They advocate for the empowerment of young people and provide the strategies and skills through their 'Art of Kitchen Table Conversations^TM'. They recognise and acknowledge that the 'Art of Kitchen Table Conversations^TM' is truly an art that is slowly dying. Never before in the history of the world of work has the younger generation been the teacher of the older generation. No longer does the 'master' and 'apprentice' model work either at home or in the workplace. Kids are leaving their parents behind. How do we as parents not only catch up how do we keep up with the changes in the family structure and the workplace. Technology is coming so fast and children are growing up so fast with exposure to concepts and new language that parents are really struggling.

Denise has a background in education as a classroom teacher for 15 years of both primary and high schools she was published in Certificate l in Work Education and her school to work transition model for 'kids at risk' operated successfully across three states for 9 years as was the forerunner to school based traineeships. Denise has worked with youth in her community for over 20 years voluntarily conducting leadership development programs at numerous youth camps in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.

Denise has founded and built several business including being one of the first in online learning and she is a recognised leader and one of Australia's experts in her field of learning and development in innovation. She has been a recipient of the 'Commitment to Training' award from the Construction Industry. This was for the concept of workplace trainers and assessors. Over the last 20 years Denise has worked successfully with over 30,000 people in workshops across Australia and New Zealand in many blue chip companies and as a professional coach creating powerful transformational results. Where people state they have the experience of 'Mapping my life for change!'
Denise holds a DipEd, Dip Teac, Post Grad in Education and Career Counselling, and her own learning journey took her on a discovery of NLP. She also holds a Master in NLP, timeline Therapy, DiSC and SDI accreditation and their own attitudinal profiling tool 'The Gen Cove Index^TM' which Marcus and Denise developed when building their first business together, The Gen Team.

Marcus Archie growing up in a family of entrepreneurs learned from a young age the fun of being in business. During his school years Marcus was active in his community as a youth leader, Mentor and sports coach. Marcus holds a Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts and has been a high school teacher in one of Sydney's top schools for over 5 years. Marcus has also enjoyed coaching soccer across a variety of levels and ages; from under 14s, to women's university teams, to open age men's. His highlight was coaching the 2005 Australian Women's Maccabiah Team

Over the last two years Denise and Marcus have officially joined forces and have developed two successful companies. One is Bringing Up Your Parents - A parent's guide to Living with and Loving Teenagers and the other is The Gen Team. The Gen Team focuses on the workplace. This is the age where never before has the younger generation been the teacher of the older generation. Denise and Marcus are now recognised as experts in the field of mother/son relationships and working with different generations. What works and what are still the 'areas for practise'.

Watch the video for an overview of the Bringing Up Your Parents Video learning Programs.

• Bringing Up Your Parents - A parent's guide to Teenagers: living with and loving them.
  This presentation explores the 5 key things that every parent must know to have a powerful and successful relationship with their teenagers

• Managing and Leading This Generation at work - The 5 key things that every Leader and Manager must know to manage and lead this generation at work

• Marketing and selling to each generation - the 5 key things that make a difference!