Over the past 30 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as North America's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, and workforce implications of the age wave. He is a psychologist, gerontologist, entrepreneur and best-selling author of fifteen books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind, Age Wave, Age Power, The Power Years, Workforce Crisis and his latest – a children's book Gideon's Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings. Ken Dychtwald's next book is entitled From Success to Significance. His article in The Harvard Business Review, "It's Time to Retire Retirement," was awarded the prestigious McKinsey Award, tying for first place with the legendary Peter Drucker. In March of 2007, he had his debut as a documentary filmmaker and host with the highly rated PBS special "The Boomer Century."
In 1986, in partnership with his wife, Maddy Dychtwald,Ken Dychtwald became the founding President and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide Fortune 500 companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults. In recent years, he has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and is the recipient of the distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership in the field of aging. American Demographics Magazine honored Ken Dychtwald as the single most influential marketer to baby boomers over the past quarter century.
Ken Dychtwald's explorations and innovative solutions have fertilized and catalyzed a broad spectrum of industry sectors—from vitamins and cookies to automotive design and retail merchandising to mutual funds and health insurance. A highly sought-after public speaker and consultant, he is consistently praised for his unique ability to blend cutting-edge social science and marketing wizardry with world-class presentation showmanship.
During his career, Ken Dychtwald has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, social service, and government groups, and his strikingly accurate predictions are regularly featured in leading print and electronic media worldwide, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Inc., U.S. News and World Report, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, PBS, NPR, BBC, and Yahoo.
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- Financial Wake-Up Call: The Future of Financial Services
No industry stands to gain more from understanding the wants and needs of boomers as they rise up into an age wave than financial services. This illuminating presentation will shed light on boomers and their retirement-related needs, worries, and aspirations. How will the emerging adult lifestage demands of careers, parenthood, eldercare, grandparenthood, singlehood, and rehirement affect retirement? What are the hopes and fears that motivate boomers in terms of investing financially in their future? What are boomers looking for from financial professionals? What does legacy mean to them? And what does retirement mean to them? This presentation includes an overview of the five stages of retirement: 1) imagination, 2) anticipation, 3) liberation, 4) reorientation, and 5) reconciliation. You'll learn what concerns people before, during, and after retirement and what role financial planning can play in assuring that retirement will be a dream and not a nightmare. Based on research findings from numerous highly acclaimed studies on retirement and financial services conducted by Age Wave, this presentation sheds light on how financial professionals can help boomers fulfill their personal "retirement dreams." - Four Generations Rethink Work, Money and Retirement: Preventing a Workforce Brain Drain
Millions of boomers are beginning to retire. At the same time, decades of declining birth rates will mean fewer younger workers. As a result, companies are about to experience a "brain drain," as competition for talent and worker loyalty mounts. What are the new rules for orchestrating the special contributions—and limits—of the new multigenerational workforce? What makes each of the four working generations tick – and perform? This presentation will explore these issues while showing how companies have the opportunity to retain valuable employees and beat the coming shortage of skills and talent through activities such as: creative use of flexible work arrangements, innovative learning and mentoring opportunities, sabbaticals, retraining, re-careering and creative compensation and benefits programs.. - Power Shift: How Women's Soaring Economic Power will Change the World
It's projected that by 2010, women will control 60% of the wealth in America. Yet while many of today’s women stand strong when wielding earning power, many still slump in their financial confidence, long-term financial decision-making skills, economic control and savvy, and investment power. The final frontier for women in the gender revolution will be gaining power and control over their money, including savvy purchasing in traditional male-dominated sectors such as financial services, banking and credit cards, electronics and technology. Based on groundbreaking findings from Age Wave's landmark research study "Women, Money, and Power," this presentation reveals important new insights on women and their relationship to money. It provides an illuminating and in-depth look at women's motivations, hopes, fears, and challenges around money, saving, and spending. In addition, we explore the five distinct financial personality styles of women and their money: 1) The Alpha Female, 2) The Perceptive Partner, 3) The Power Partner, 4) The Uncertain Searcher and 5) The Supportive Traditionalist.