Gen Alpha: The In-Between Generation

Growing Up Inside Change

A major study on how Gen Alpha see the world and what it takes to connect.

Today’s 10–16-year-olds provide the most visible view into Gen Alpha right now, navigating a world where the systems that once set a clear path into adulthood are shifting in real-time.

Every generation reflects the world it grows up in. This one is coming into it at the start of a shift in how humans and technology interact, accelerated by AI and other forces converging at once. It is changing how they live, connect, learn and ultimately work.

This isn’t just an in-between age. It’s an in-between era.

They are working out who they are, what matters to them, and where they fit, without a stable reference point.

There is no room for outdated ways of thinking. While some universal markers remain, the realities they face and the outsized influence they already exert are raising the standard for all of us and for everything being designed, delivered and experienced around them.

This demands a reset — not just in how we show up, but in how we keep up and build alongside them.

What's Inside

This study explores what it means to grow up with everything moving at once, and how this shapes how 10–16s think, connect and navigate the world.

Built through qualitative exploration at scale, using digital-native methods and cultural analysis, it captures Gen Alpha’s lived experience beyond trends and what numbers alone can show.

From this, a forward-looking perspective emerges — turning into clear frameworks that make sense of how this generation is experiencing change, and into more proactive, strengths-led ways for organisations to respond.

It is structured in two parts.

Part One examines growing up inside change — how it’s experienced, where the generational gap is felt, and how identity and values are being forged in response, creating new ways to understand and act.

Part Two brings this into focus — mapping how culture is reorganising, and translating youth voice into clear roles for brands and organisations to shape programs, communication and policy.

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