Finding Purpose Across Your Life

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  Marci Alboher

  Marci Alboher, one of the nation’s leading authorities on career issues and workplace trends, is a vice president at CoGenerate. Marci’s current focus is on the power of connecting, collaborating and innovating across the generations. A former blogger and columnist for The New York Times, her latest book is The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life. Marci is regularly called upon for commentary in media outlets around the world, and she has been interviewed by countless news organizations, including NBC’s Today and Nightly News, National Public Radio, and USA Today. She is a Senior Advisor to Girls Write Now, serves as a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project and is on the faculty of the Modern Elder Academy. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade practicing law. She lives in New York City with her husband Jay. 

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  Kendall Cotton Bronk, Ph.D.

  Kendall Cotton Bronk, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator for the Adolescent Moral Development Lab and a Professor of Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Claremont Graduate University. She is a developmental scientist interested in studying and promoting positive youth development and the moral growth of young people. Most commonly, she has investigated these topics through the lens of young people’s purposes in life.
  
  Her research has explored the relationship between purpose and healthy growth, the ways diverse groups of young people cultivate purpose, and the developmental trajectory of youth with strong commitments to various purposes in life. Her work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Templeton Religion Trust, and the Fulbright Foundation.

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  Jonathan Collie

  Jonathan Collie is a social entrepreneur and innovator. In 2014, he co-founded The Age of No Retirement CIC, the innovation agency which has done so much to reframe retirement and ageing. Much of his ground-breaking research paved the way for The Purpose Xchange which he co-founded in 2021. Jonathan is a former medical doctor and clinical transformation lead at EDS and Perot Systems. He has an MBA from Edinburgh University. He lives in London with his wife and two children. He enjoys cycling and oil painting and is a massive fan of cricket and rugby.

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  Chip Conley

  After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in the U.S., and then as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Chip Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018.
  
  Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a ‘modern elder’ at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary transformation from a fast-growing start-up to the world’s most valuable hospitality brand, MEA is the world's first ‘midlife wisdom school.’ A New York Times bestselling author, Conley's 7th book “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age” is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage.

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  Marc Freedman

  Marc Freedman, the founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate, is a renowned social entrepreneur, thought leader and writer. Under Marc’s leadership, CoGenerate has pioneered innovative programs and sparked a growing movement in the United States and beyond to tap the talent and experience of people past midlife as a human resource for solving our most vexing social problems.

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  Ladybird Morgan

  Ladybird is currently a private palliative care consultant with Mettlehealth where she co-facilitates discussions about the practical, emotional, spiritual and existential elements of chronic and terminal illness. She offers similar support as a staff member at Commonweal’s Cancer Care Help Program. Ladybird’s other primary interest is in supporting the work of psychedelics as tools for transformation. She is a co-investigator/study therapist with a University of Washington study of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and a Learning Facilitator for Synthesis LLC Psychedelic Practitioner Training. Ladybird has been working in end-of-life care as a registered nurse, social worker and educator for over 20 years with organizations including The Zen Hospice Project and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), guiding individuals, families, caregivers and medical practitioners to find their clearest voice as they step across significant thresholds in life and in preparing for death.

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  Eunice Lin Nichols

  Eunice Lin Nichols is Co-CEO of CoGenerate. She has spent more than two decades bringing older and younger generations together to bridge divides and solve problems, including leading CoGenerate’s innovation portfolio, serving as national campaign director for the Generation to Generation initiative, running The Purpose Prize (now a program of AARP), and scaling Experience Corps from one neighborhood school in San Francisco into a thriving Bay Area program helping thousands of kids read by third grade.
  
  Eunice has been recognized as a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging and is a graduate of the Billions Institute Fellowship for Large-Scale Change. She is also a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for advancing innovative and effective solutions to California’s most significant issues.

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  Julia Randell-Khan

  Julia co-founded The Purpose Xchange in 2021, a platform to help people discover their purposeful futures in work and life. A former attorney, Julia’s own transition is from 30+ years in international law to a career as a longevity entrepreneur and encore career advocate. Julia is a Senior Fellow with CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org), an organization which taps experienced talent for social change offering co-generational solutions to social problems from literacy to loneliness. Julia set up the Encore Fellowships program in the UK to promote the value that experienced workers at 50+ can offer to the social sector as part of an encore career and a purposeful “non”-retirement.
  
  Julia is a consulting fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, working on the “New Map of Life™” project and the transformative changes needed to address the challenges and opportunities presented by longer lives. Her research builds on her experience at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute – a mid-life career transition programme and her work as guest faculty with the Modern Elder Academy.

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  Victor Saad

  Victor Saad is the founder of Experience Institute (Ei), TED speaker, and a Forbes 30Under30 recipient in the field of education. In 2012, Victor launched Ei by designing his own Master’s through 12 work experiences in 12 months. Since then, he and his team have worked with thousands of individuals and teams to grow in their careers by combining relevant curriculum, caring community, and memorable experiences. He’s also the founder and director of Design Formation, a program at Stanford’s d.school — helping students build the bridge between the classroom and the broader world of design. When he’s not leading or facilitating, he’s on his bike or working on his next writing project.

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  Scott Shigeoka

  Scott Shigeoka is an internationally-recognized curiosity expert, speaker, and the author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life And Change The World. He is known for translating research into strategies that promote positive well-being and connected relationships around the globe, including at the UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and through his popular courses at the University of Texas at Austin. Scott has spread the gospel of curiosity to public officials, health care professionals, artists, activists, writers, media organizations, educators, community leaders and businesses. Originally from Hawai′i, Scott now lives in California.

Learners will be able to:

• Describe the meaning, value, and benefits of having a sense of purpose in life
• Follow a science-based process for exploring your purpose
• Identify techniques for tapping into your creativity, curiosity, and sense of possibility
• Discover tools for identifying your core values and goals in life
• Identify strategies for converting your aspirations into a concrete course of action