Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (GOLD medal 2009 Axiom Award as the year's best retirement book)

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Planning is not the strongest indicator of a successful retirement. The research conducted by Dr. Bill Roiter for Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully found that the strongest indicator is confidence in your ability to retire successfully. Planning is, of course, an important contributing factor of confidence, as is knowledge. The more you know, the more confident you can feel. Beyond Work looks at what happens as accomplished people move beyond work and enter their years as a new adult. People have made major transitions before; entering the workforce, getting married, raising a family or changing careers are some of the transitions we have navigated. The transition from a work/career-focused life to the meaning-focused life after retirement relies on the same skills we have used during our other life transitions. Beyond Work is filled with retirement stories from people who are considering retirement and those who have retired. Interviews with experts in the fields of finance, medicine, social living and personality provide insights that will increase your knowledge and confidence as you move beyond work. A no-cost, on-line Retirement Confidence Index is available at the beyondwork.net website to help you understand your confidence in each of retirement s four major domains. Bill Roiter (Boston, MA) is a psychologist, executive coach, businessperson and author. Many of his executive clients are now looking to Bill for guidance on how to prepare for, and enjoy, their retirement. Bill is also the co-author of Corporate MVPs (978-0-470-83353-7), from Wiley.

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Like most career-focused people Dr. Bill Roiter had not really thought much about retirement until something happened: many of his clients began to ask him his ideas on the subject. Over the past 30 years Bill, a psychologist, has used his knowledge of human behavior to consult to organizations and to coach their executives. Many of the people Bill has known and worked with over the years are retiring or are contemplating it. Many have asked Bill what they should know and think about as they move beyond their work-focused lives. Then four years ago Bill s wife retired from her corporate job and focused Bill s attention on the personal, as well as the professional, aspects of this dynamic part of life. This book is the result of Bill s work with these accomplished people. Bill maintains his own executive coaching practice in the Boston area. In 2004, he coauthored a book with Margaret Butteriss that identified and described Corporate MVPs (Wiley, 2004). He has also owned and sold two businesses, been a vice president for sales and marketing of a publicly traded company, and helped found a venture capital-backed electronic communications company. For the past 12 years Bill has focused his work on coaching executives as they transition to their next challenge. Bill's professional training includes a bachelor s, master s and doctoral degree from Boston University and post-doctoral training and teaching at Harvard University. Bill also teaches executive coaching to professionals looking to develop this expertise.