Events

2020

May 15. Encore Transition at the University of Minnesota. Talk will be on Finding Meaning, Money, and Happiness in the Second Half of Life. (Morning session). https://ccaps.umn.edu/encore-transitions

May 11. Talk at SALT–Seniors Learning Together–from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. at the Church of the Risen Savior, 1501 County Road 42, Burnsville

March 14-15 Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/

2019

November 7. Living and Leading with Purpose. An event from 9:00 am to noon at The Westin Edina Galleria. https://www.edinachamber.com/events/details/living-leading-with-purpose-435036

Oct. 5. TPT from 10 am to 11:30 am. Talk on the importance of estate planning and panel discussion.

Oct. 4 Minnesota Bankruptcy Institute panel discussion on: “The Growing Crisis of Seniors in Bankruptcy: How We Got Here and Some Hope for the Future.”

September 26. The 6th season of Conversations on the Creative Economy begins a panel of four Native American entrepreneurs. “Entrepreneurship and Identity: Building a Native Owned Business” will be held at the Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji, Minnesota https://www.mprnews.org/business/creative-economy-conversations

September 20. Visit to Notre Dame to meet with its Inspired Leadership Initiative fellows, along with Marc Freedman, founder and head of Encore.org https://ili.nd.edu/

September 18. Recruiting & Hiring Older Minnesota Candidates. Panel luncheon discussion at Fairview Masonic Hospital in Minneapolis http://business.mnrsa.org/events/details/recruiting-and-hiring-older-candidates-739

July 29. Interviewed during lunch hour by Jessica Moes of Best Buy for their Think Blue program in an auditorium at corporate campus. Among the topics we covered were: Career transitions in later life; innovation and entrepreneurship in the second half of life; inclusion and discrimination of aging employees; and the economics of aging and what current society looks like for our colleagues, customers and friends.  

July 16. AARP regional state presidents met in St. Paul, Minnesota and I joined them for lunch to talk about Purpose and a Paycheck.

June 3. Moderated panel discussion on “What Does it Take to Build a Better Retirement System?” held at the Mayflower Hotel. Panelists were Deborah Lucas, professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Greg Mennis, director of Public Sector Retirement Systems research for Pew Charitable Trusts; and Kurt Winkelmann, senior fellow of pension policy at the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

Friday, May 31. University of Minnesota Encore Transitions on the St. Paul campus. Talk on Launching Your Future | Finding Meaning, Money, and Happiness in the Second Half of Life.

May 24. Morning talk at Brooklyn Park CareerForce in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota on Purpose and a Paycheck and finding work in the second  half of life.

May 13. Moderated panel discussion on “What Does it Take to Build a Better Retirement System?” held at the New York Yacht Club. Panelists were Deborah Lucas, professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Greg Mennis, director of Public Sector Retirement Systems research for Pew Charitable Trusts; and Kurt Winkelmann, senior fellow of pension policy at the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

May 10. University of Minnesota Encore Transitions on the St. Paul campus. Talk on Financial Planning for Retirement | UnRetirement  

May 7. Conversations on the Creative Economy: Medical Entrereneurs. Held in Rochester, Minnesota. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/05/29/chris-farrells-conversation-on-the-creative-economy-medical-entrepreneurs

April 23. Moderated panel discussion on “What Does it Take to Build a Better Retirement System?” held in the main auditorium at the Humphrey Institute. Panelists included Kurt Winkelmann, senior fellow of pension policy at the University of Minnesota; Greg Mennis, director of Public Sector Retirement Systems at the Pew Charitable Trusts; and Jeff Bailey, lecturer at the Carlson School of Management and former senior director of benefits for Target Corp.

April 22. Conversations on the Creative Economy: Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford. At the UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/04/25/conversations-on-the-creative-economy-land-olakes-ceo-beth-ford

April 18. 2019 Boomer Sunnit at the Hyatt Regency, New Orleans. Moderated panel on LESSONS FROM THE C-SUITE. Panelists were: Ted Fischer, Founder and CEO, Ageless Innovation; Sharon Emek, Founder, CEO and President, WAHVE; and Sherwin Sheik, President and CEO, Carelinx.

April 15. Aging in America conference in New Orleans. Participated in panel discussion on “Why Everything You Think You Know About Aging and Happiness Is Wrong: Life Gets Better After 50 .” Panelists were: Richard Eisenberg, Managing Editor & Senior Web Editor, Money & Security and Work & Purpose Channel, Next Avenue; Kerry Hannon, Author/Columnist/Expert, The New York Times, PBS Next Avenue, AARP; Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Panel Aging in America; and me.