Mark Finke is an enthusiastic and experienced public speaker. His motivation for writing So You Think You Are Ready To Retire was to help as many people as possible properly prepare for their retirement transition. His speaking engagements give him even more of an opportunity to educate people about retirement.
Barry LaValley is President, Retirement Lifestyle Center and has studied the retirement transition in North America, Australia and Great Britain for the past twenty years. His company is a research, education and advocacy organization focused on the non-financial aspects of the transition into retirement for aging boomers. Barry’s approach is to look
at the psychological and emotional aspects of aging; he then uses the research available from around the globe to help people understand their passage to this next phase of life.
Barry conducts his work around the globe and speaks and writes extensively on retirement issues. In addition, he has worked with several major financial institutions in both Canada and the US to help build client-facing programs on retirement. Barry and his wife Melissa live in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
