You have mastered the “easy” part of retirement—the money—but may still be unclear about how you will spend the 50,000+ hours that come after you leave full‑time work. Hiring a professional retirement coach helps you turn that uncertainty into a clear, compelling blueprint for how you want to live, contribute, and thrive in your next chapter.
Through the RETIRE WELL™ coaching program, you gain a structured, supportive space to define what “living your best life” really means and to begin practicing it now. Next Decision Coaching and Expanded Horizons developed RETIRE WELL™ based on extensive research and conversations with countless retired and soon-to-be-retired professionals. It combines the best of academic and practical knowledge to help you quickly design your retirement.
A retirement coach focuses on the human side of retirement—identity, purpose, relationships, and lifestyle—so your financial plan supports a life you actually want to live. Instead of telling you what you should do, your coach guides you through self‑reflection and field work that bring clarity to what is important to you and how those values can show up in retirement.
Through coaching sessions, individually or as a couple, your coach uses assessments, powerful questions, and practical experiments to help you discover what would you do if you could do anything. The result is a personalized blueprint for RETIRE WELL™—retirement defined on your terms, not by someone else’s expectations.
Successful leaders often enter retirement with a solid financial plan and a long list of things they know they do not want—but far less clarity about what comes next. Years of driving results and leading others can make it hard to imagine a life that is not organized around work, leaving big unknowns that feel risky to tackle alone.
RETIRE WELL™ coaching gives leaders a structured way to redefine success for this new season. By moving through the three phases—Define What’s Important, Build a Vision, Experiment and Reinvent—you repurpose your skills, wisdom, and energy into roles and activities that feel meaningful, rather than simply “keeping busy.”
With a retirement coach, you move from vague ideas to a concrete plan you can see and act on. After RETIRE WELL™, you will have a personalized blueprint that paints a clear picture of the life you want to build, guided by the values and priorities you already hold.
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When you work with Eric Grorud and Next Decision Coaching, you can expect a collaborative, practical process anchored in the RETIRE WELL™ framework. Together, you will: define what is most important to you, build a compelling vision for your future, and then experiment with real-world changes that move you toward that vision.
Each session blends reflection with action—conversations, exercises, and field work between meetings—so you are not just talking about retirement, you are actively designing and testing it. By the end of the engagement, you will know what you want, why it matters, and exactly how to begin living your best life and retiring with purpose.