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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife - Paperback

by Marc Freedman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marc FreedmanTheme:Generational Orientation/Elderly/AgedPublish date:3/20/2012Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610390996ISBN-10:1610390997UPC:9781610390996Book Category:Business & Economics, Self-Help, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Careers, Aging, Life StagesBook Topic:Later YearsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCR8849ZZ2

Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are searching for answers to the question "What's next?" and are navigating their way to an entirely new stage of life and work, one that could last as long as midlife. Shifting to a much longer lifespan isn't as easy as it may seem. Unlike the transition from adolescence to adulthood, managing this process for many is a do-it-yourself project. Drawing on powerful personal stories, The Big Shift provides not only direction but a vision of what it would take to help millions find their footing in a new map of life.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610390996ISBN-10:1610390997UPC:9781610390996Book Category:Business & Economics, Self-Help, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Careers, Aging, Life StagesBook Topic:Later YearsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCR8849ZZ2
Marc Freedman is CEO and president of Encore.org, an organization he founded in 1998. Freedman is a member of the Wall Street Journal's "Experts" group, a frequent commentator in the national media, and the author of four previous books.

Originator of the encore career idea linking second acts to the greater good, Freedman cofounded Experience Corps to mobilize people over fifty to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in twenty-two US cities. He also spearheaded the creation of the Encore Fellowships program, a one-year fellowship helping individuals translate their midlife skills into second acts focused on social impact, and the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life. (AARP now runs both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize.)

Freedman was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation, was recognized as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs by Fast Company magazine three years in a row, and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and King's College, University of London. Freedman serves or has served on the boards and advisory councils of numerous groups, including the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, and the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program.

A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College, with an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Freedman lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Leslie Gray, and their three sons.

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