REVIEW: ‘TRUE NORTH’ OFFERS LEADERSHIP LESSONS
Read Published Article Buy the Book on Amazon.com True North has a simple premise for leadership: understand your own life story. For example, Starbucks’ founder Howard Schultz was forever changed at the age of 7 when a broken ankle caused his father to lose his deliveryman job and consequently his family’s health insurance and economic […]
Planning a carer change? Here is your homework.
It’s fun to dream about what you really want to do with your work life. Maybe you’ve always wanted to run away with the circus or start a chocolate company. If you’re lucky—and industrious—you might just get to a midpoint in your life when you can act on that inner ambition. But to start making […]
FROM FOR-PROFIT TO NONPROFIT
Former corporate lawyer shares how to ditch the grind and find meaningful nonprofit work. READ ARTICLE Ever dream of ditching the ruthless money-making grind of the corporate world and digging into meaningful work at a nonprofit? Betsy Werley, who spent 26 years working first as a corporate lawyer and then leading business projects […]
SECOND-ACT CAREERS: FROM HEAD HONCHO TO HUMANITARIAN
Running companies was his thing. Volunteering was not. Until the tsunami Read Article as Published Picture yourself atop a ski slope in Telluride, Colo., with a day of perfect powder schussing before you. You pause, take it all in—and wish you were helping Hurricane Katrina flood victims dig out of rotting houses. It was […]
BOOMERS REDEFINE RETIREMENT WITH ‘ENCORE’ CAREERS
Many are using their retirement years to pursue a purpose, a passion, or a dream Read article To become a certified personal fitness instructor, you have to be at least 18 years old. New Yorker Liliane Kates had that nailed. When she took the exam in 2005, she was well past 65. Of course, the […]
BOOMERS REDEFINE RETIREMENT WITH ‘ENCORE’ CAREERS
Many are using their retirement years to pursue a purpose, a passion, or a dream Read article To become a certified personal fitness instructor, you have to be at least 18 years old. New Yorker Liliane Kates had that nailed. When she took the exam in 2005, she was well past 65. Of […]
FROM STRESSED TO STRESSBUSTER
SPIRITED. Lisa Eaves has found satisfaction in running her own acupuncture therapy practice. When Lisa Eaves meets new patients, they inevitably ask: “Do you have kids?” And when she says no, their knee-jerk response is: “Why are you doing this?” Little wonder. Eaves, 49, is a licensed acupuncture therapist in Washington, D.C., […]
THE BEST FIELDS FOR STARTING OVER
It’s fun to dream about what you really want to do with your work life. Maybe you’ve always wanted to run away with the circus or start a chocolate company. If you’re lucky—and industrious—you might just get to a midpoint in your life when you can act on that inner ambition.
PRIME TIME
From High Finance to Ravioli Read Published Article It’s a sunny Sunday in September, and Tim Sheerer is not on the golf course with his 12-year-old son, Johnny, playing in the annual father-son tournament. Instead, he’s spending the day preparing meals for roughly 350 customers at la Cappella, an Italian bistro, in a Pittsburgh suburb. […]
FROM THE LADDER TO THE PULPIT
Eschewing the corporate ascent for a spiritual one Read Published Article Diane Rhodes underwent a life-transforming experience in 1998-in more ways than one. First, she retired. At age 49, she snapped up an enticing early retirement package and withdrew from AT&T’s corporate cocoon, a world that had shaped her adult life.
