New & Customizable Presentations
Drawing from more than fifteen years of research and analysis, Maddy Dychtwald combines her engaging delivery with humor, anecdotes, examples and illustrative multi-media. She helps business executives, managers, sales groups and recognition groups understand the changing wants and needs of the new "cyclic" consumer and employee. Choose from a menu of presentations or request a customized program to meet the specific needs and interests of your group.
With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life
Success can be looked at from different perspectives at different points in our lives. As a child, it had a lot to do with pleasing our parents. In our teens, it may have been about academic achievement and popularity with our peers. As a working adult, success is often represented by the challenge of simultaneously creating a blossoming family and burgeoning career. But what about in the decades after life's initial goals have been pursued? Is it too late to have new dreams, go back to school, start a new and gratifying career, fall in love again, become a philanthropreneur, reinvent yourself, change the world? This powerful new presentation rethinks adulthood and retirement, explores the purpose of life's new third act and answers the question: what constitutes success then? Leisure or legacy?
Financial Wake-Up Call: The Future of Financial Services
No industry stands to gain more from understanding the wants and needs of boomers as they rise up into an age wave than financial services. This illuminating presentation will shed light on boomers and their retirement-related needs, worries, and aspirations. How will the emerging adult lifestage demands of careers, parenthood, eldercare, grandparenthood, singlehood, and rehirement affect retirement? What are the hopes and fears that motivate boomers in terms of investing financially in their future? What are boomers looking for from financial professionals? What does legacy mean to them? And what does retirement mean to them? This presentation includes an overview of the five stages of retirement: 1) imagination, 2) anticipation, 3) liberation, 4) reorientation, and 5) reconciliation. You'll learn what concerns people before, during, and after retirement and what role financial planning can play in assuring that retirement will be a dream and not a nightmare. Based on research findings from numerous highly acclaimed studies on retirement and financial services conducted by Age Wave, this presentation sheds light on how financial professionals can help boomers fulfill their personal "retirement dreams."
Reinventing Retirement
Based on pioneering Age Wave research in twenty countries worldwide, this presentation provides an overview of national and global trends toward an unprecedented retirement revolution. What is the past, present and future of retirement? Do people look forward to traditional retirement or is a new model emerging? Is maturity a time to retreat and wind down - or a chance for new beginnings? What personal, social and financial factors contribute to a successful and satisfying retirement? Meet the "Ageless Explorers," the "Comfortably Contents," the "Live for Todays" and the "Sick and Tireds." Learn how each group feels about their lives, their prospects for fulfilling their hopes and dreams and what role financial planning and/or government policies have played in getting them to where they are today.
Power Shift: How Women's Soaring Economic Power will Change the World
It’s projected that by 2010, women will control 60% of the wealth in America. Yet while many of today's women stand strong when wielding earning power, many still slump in their financial confidence, long-term financial decision-making skills, economic control and savvy, and investment power. The final frontier for women in the gender revolution will be gaining power and control over their money, including savvy purchasing in traditional male-dominated sectors such as financial services, banking and credit cards, electronics and technology. Based on groundbreaking findings from Age Wave's landmark research study "Women, Money, and Power," this presentation reveals important new insights on women and their relationship to money. It provides an illuminating and in-depth look at women's motivations, hopes, fears, and challenges around money, saving, and spending. In addition, we explore the five distinct financial personality styles of women and their money: 1) The Alpha Female, 2) The Perceptive Partner, 3) The Power Partner, 4) The Uncertain Searcher and 5) The Supportive Traditionalist.
The Global Age Wave
This visionary presentation offers deep insights into the global population shifts that are occurring and what they mean for business and society. How might continued health and longevity-related breakthroughs impact societies, economies, families and individual lives? Do people want to live traditional "linear" or more flexible "cyclic" lives? How will population aging impact the consumer marketplace? Which sectors and products will shrink and which will grow? How will work practices and policies need to change to prevent a "brain drain"? Which countries are hopeful about their aging prospects and which are fearful? Which have done the best job of preparing financially, socially, and politically for the age wave? And who will pay for the challenges facing hundreds of millions of long-lived men and women?
The Longevity Revolution: The Future of Health and Healthcare
This sweeping presentation provides a visionary glimpse into the future. How long might we live? Will our later years be a time of health and vitality or illness and disability? How far will we go in our pursuit of the "fountain of health"? What are the new frontiers of medicine - from genomics, anti-aging therapies, therapeutic cloning and virtual surgery to pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals - how might they be used to combat the diseases of aging? What role will consumer empowerment and self-care play in the new healthcare marketplace? A preview of how rising longevity, the aging of the population, and increasingly self-empowered consumers are converging to transform nearly every aspect of our healthcare system-from professional training to IT, to facility design to service delivery.
Four Generations Rethink Work, Money and Retirement: Preventing a Workforce Brain Drain
Millions of boomers are beginning to retire. At the same time, decades of declining birth rates will mean fewer younger workers. As a result, companies are about to experience a "brain drain," as competition for talent and worker loyalty mounts. What are the new rules for orchestrating the special contributions-and limits-of the new multigenerational workforce? What makes each of the four working generations tick - and perform? This presentation will explore these issues while showing how companies have the opportunity to retain valuable employees and beat the coming shortage of skills and talent through activities such as: creative use of flexible work arrangements, innovative learning and mentoring opportunities, sabbaticals, retraining, re-careering and creative compensation and benefits programs.
The New Experiential Marketplace
Fueled by the dual liberations of empty nesting and retirement, tens of millions of men and women are beginning to enjoy more free time than at any other point in their lives. In addition, at this new stage in their lives, there is a deepening appreciation for the immeasurable value of great times with friends and loved ones, the satisfaction of lifelong learning and the excitement of encountering new people, places and cultures. These forces are causing a massive shift in interest from a desire to purchase "things" to an unquenchable appetite for new, exciting, stimulating and challenging "experiences." Learn how this change will transform the consumer marketplace and give birth to a new assortment of travel, leisure, recreation, rejuvenation, entertainment, infotainment, housing, volunteering and learning industries.
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