KEN DYCHTWALD
WITH PURPOSE
GOING FROM SUCCESS TO SIGNIFICANCE IN WORK AND LIFE (MARCH 2009)
by Ken Dychtwald
How long might you live? Will the years ahead be a time of engagement and contribution or retreat and withdrawal? What will you do with your “longevity bonus?” Is it too late to have new dreams, go back to school, start a gratifying new “encore” career, fall in love again, become a philanthropreneur, reinvent yourself, change the world?
Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., is the renowned psychologist, gerontologist, and bestselling author—who decades ago accurately predicted the full impact of the global “age wave.” In WITH PURPOSE: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life (written with award-winning journalist Daniel J. Kadlec—Collins; March 2009; $25.99) he rethinks success, work, relationships, adulthood and retirement and explores the new purpose of life’s second half. Called “today’s most innovative and original thinker” on aging by President Jimmy Carter and “the perfect spokesman” for the boomer age wave by Fortune magazine, Dychtwald has emerged as the foremost visionary regarding the personal, social, economic and political implications of rising longevity and a wide range of age-related issues.
Dr. Dychtwald has given speeches to more than 2 million people worldwide and is the author of fifteen previous books including The Power Years, (also with Kadlec), Bodymind, Gideon’s Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will be Ruled by the New Old and Age Wave. Last year, he made his debut as a documentary filmmaker on PBS as producer/host of the highly acclaimed “The Boomer Century.” His new PBS special “With Purpose” will be airing nationwide in late February/early March 2009.
An inspiring and thought-provoking communicator, Ken Dychtwald would enjoy discussing:
· Are You Caught Between the Dow and The Tao? – Rather than measuring your life in dollar signs, perhaps it’s time to be reminded of what really matters in life – rich experiences with the people you care about and the chance to give back your knowledge, passion, and life lessons.
· It’s Time to “Retire” Retirement – Due to today’s economic “reckoning,” and also to new aspirations regarding the potentials of maturity, instead of a multi-decade period of leisure, you can think of retirement as a pit stop and then charge off to do what you’d really love to do in a satisfying “encore” career.
· Philanthropreneuring – An exciting new blend of entrepreneurialism and philanthropy is emerging that begins at the grassroots level as people start small and make big things happen, by: investing time in someone else’s future, taking a volunteer vacation, mentoring a distressed teen, supporting a third world entrepreneur with a micro-loan, or starting a school and more.
· The New Gospel of Wealth – The era of “he who dies with the most toys wins” is over. So is a half century of self-focused ambitions. In its place, a new paradigm of civic engagement/ activism, intergenerational equity and social interdependence is emerging.
· Me or We? Leisure or Legacy? Will the boomers relax their obsession with being “forever young” and grow up in time to repair the myriad of serious problems that they have helped create?
Ken Dychtwald believes that to live the coming decades of our lives with purpose is a choice. And the choice is ours.