IDEAS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTERSpeaking
Pretirement completes a trilogy on professional careers that began with my bestsellers The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers and The Leap. Together, the three books follow the full arc of a leadership career, from the first role to the life that comes after it.
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Finishing Strong: Making the Most of Your Final Decade as a Leader
Leaders in the last ten to fifteen years of their careers are worth more than at any earlier point. Most of them still run the playbook that got them there. In this keynote, Rick Smith shows senior leaders how to reverse the habits that built their success so they can turn peak experience into lasting impact. The talk gives audiences practical moves to start now, from asking better questions to building leaders and systems that outlast them.
Ideal for: leadership meetings and offsites, executive and CEO forums, and HR and talent conferences.
Pretirement: The Great Inversion and the Life After the Title
Stepping away from a senior role is one of the hardest transitions a leader will face. The title goes, the calendar empties, and an identity built over thirty years has to be rebuilt. Drawing on his new book, Rick Smith walks audiences through the challenges of this transition and the Great Inversion that follows it, where the rules for accumulating success turn into rules for deploying it. Audiences leave with a practical playbook for the fifteen to twenty years ahead.
Ideal for: client events hosted by wealth management, private banking and financial services firms, along with executive alumni networks and other forums for senior leaders who have stepped away.
