In Memoriam: Richard Steckel

It was with great sadness that we learned recently that Richard Steckel, a 2007 Purpose Prize fellow and co-founder of the Milestones Project, died of cancer at the age of 72. Richard and his wife (and project co-founder) Shelli, horrified by genocidal violence and...

Entrepreneurship: Not Just for the Young

The Spring 2015 issue of LPN-Q, the quarterly journal of the Life Planning Network (LPN), is a trove of wisdom about older adult entrepreneurship. LPN defines itself as “a community of professionals from diverse disciplines dedicated to helping people navigate...

Back to the Future (Déjà Vu)

I’m generally a glass-half-full kind of guy, but the latest research on planning for an aging workforce has me scratching my head. Jennifer Schramm, the manager of Workplace Trends and Forecasting for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), wrote about the...