Ken Dychtwald

Futurist, Psychologist, Gerontologist and Best-selling Author

For over 30 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as the nation’s foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the “age wave.” He guides organizations in product/service development for baby boomers and mature adults, and his extensive client list includes nearly half of the Fortune 500. He is a psychologist, gerontologist, entrepreneur and best-selling author of fifteen books, including Demography Is De$tiny, The Power Years, Bodymind, Age Wave: The Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging Society, and Age Power. Dychtwald’s latest book, With Purpose: Going From Success to Significant in Work and Life, will be available in the spring of 2009.

Dychtwald’s strikingly accurate predictions have been featured in the national media, including 60 Minutes, CNN, PBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, Time, Newsweek Business Week, Inc., and U.S. News & World Report. In 2007, he debuted as a filmmaker and host with the PBS special, The Boomer Century.

Dychtwald is the recipient of the distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership in the field of aging. American Demographics Magazine honoured him as the single most influential marketer to baby boomers over the past quarter century. Dychtwald is consistently praised for his unique ability to blend cutting-edge social science and marketing wizardry with world-class presentation showmanship. He has addressed audiences of nearly two million people worldwide.

Topics:

With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Life’s Third Act
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
This illuminating presentation will shed light on boomers and their retirement-related needs, worries, and aspirations.
Power Shift: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power will Change the World
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.
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.
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. Learn how each group in society 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.�
The Longevity Revolution: The Future of Health and Healthcare
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?

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"Ken Dychtwald is a show stopper. He is one of the few speakers that can educate, entertain, and have you laughing and crying all at the same time."� Johnson & Johnson Company

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