It came to me finally this weekend. I have not been able to more completely describe my encore career to those who ask. While listening to a TED Talk, I realized that friends and colleagues want an answer about what I will be doing, as in what will my job be. But, I have seen…
I started Diverse and Resilient as a program in 1995 and as a separate non-profit organization seven years later. The time I spent in health care administration and medical education was rewarding in that it provided me daily opportunities to achieve good and useful things. I honed several skills in an excellent organization that had…
When I was in my 50’s I told friends that I felt like I could just snap my fingers and start a new program, project, or plan. Having done just that in a large, vertically integrated health care system, a great family planning organization, and a successful national effort to create legislative policy changes, my…
Encore.org has taken to the masses the idea of contributing to the welfare of others after age 50. The organization uses social marketing to foster the important notion that a generation is headed toward retirement at the very time when society needs their efforts, thinking, and passion most. I have personally benefited from my association…
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