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On March 15th 2023, I was invited to share my ideas at Disrupt HR in Sydney. This keynote talk helps HR leaders connect with the risks and issues with letting retirees leave without first handing down their 80,000 hours of experience.    

If you work in HR and want to find out more, email or call Nick to book in a time to talk. [email protected]  +612 8599 9376. 

Written by Nick Freedman, Founder of Retire on Purpose. 

Retirement 1.0 needs an upgrade

In so many areas of life we hear of transformation, disruption, growth mindset and evolution. It's hard to avoid this call for change in social media, technology upgrades and the news channels. And it's no different with retirement planning. The old model, which we'll call Retirement 1.0, was relatively simple. After your education finishes, you start employment, work hard for 40 years, then one day you re...

By Bronwyn Muir, Retired NFP Leader. 

When I first told friends that I was going to retire this year they all asked me the same questions:

•  What are you going to do?
•  Do you have a plan? You need a plan Bronwyn.

I knew what I wanted to do, spend more time with Mum, renovate the house, read lots and lots of books, perhaps volunteer somewhere - but that was as far as I had gotten. So, no plan - just a To Do list. I Googled retirement plans and primarily got financial planning information f...

By Daven Moldrich, retired Westpac banker, currently mentoring. 

Tell us about your career, Daven.

I started at the Bank of NSW, (which later became Westpac), in 1973. I then had nearly 40 years with Westpac in multiple areas of the Bank. The beauty of the size of Westpac is the wide range of diverse roles I was able to take on.  My roles ranged from being a Corporate Manger, Regional Commercial Manager, Head of HR in Corporate & Institutional, Private Bank Director and Head of Sales for Corp...

By Nick Freedman, CEO, Retire on Purpose.

Did you that 80,000 hours of experience walks out the door with each retiree? 

Consider for a moment how much a 60 year (who started work at 20), has invested in themselves. How many learning programs they have attended. How many challenges they have learned to tackle. And what level of resilience this has cultivated within them. They are a valuable asset within your business.  

Much this accumulated experience is what's called “tacit knowledge”. T...

Written by Nick Freedman, Founder of Retire on Purpose.

In the article about the Retirement 2.0 mindset, we suggest that retirement planning utilises a more holistic approach. Beyond simple wealth creation, there are several other factors which contribute towards a positive and happy retirement. 

In My Game Plan , you'll learn about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who explained that needs underpin all our human motivations and behaviours. A need is an 'essential,...

By David Fish, Strategic Coach.

I have been lucky to be trusted to coach some amazing human beings over the past 20 years. And every now and then I meet someone who makes me simply say wow! They have a unique approach to life and have charted their own pathway, which is exciting and true to who they are. When I first started coaching David Fish, it was 2018, and he was in a senior leadership position in the media sector. At the time he was questioning and exploring ideas about his next move. We...

We teach all our workshops using zoom. Some of our clients are not allowed to use the zoom application on their work computers and in this short video, we explain how you can get around this issue, by logging onto zoom using your web browser, or downloading the zoom app on your phone.