Executives Over 50 is a membership organization that helps individuals prepare for and navigate challenges in their professional and personal lives as they grow older.
We find innovative ways to convert these challenges into opportunities to continue or start new careers and businesses, remain relevant and have personal lives that are fulfilling and happy.
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Our community & programs
Every member of Executives Over 50 is part of a group of 10 to 12 like-minded souls. We carefully curate these groups to ensure the members derive as much value from the experience as possible and forge meaningful, long-term relationships.
Facilitated by a professional coach with members often geographically dispersed, groups meet online for 1 1/2 hours/every week. There are opportunities to meet face-to-face as well.
The members of your group will help you define your goals and hold you accountable for achieving them while challenging and supporting you.
Executives Over 50 offers additional programs and a large network of experts and specialists to help you with your career, business, health, wellness and personal financial situation.
The cost and benefits of membership
Cost:
$195/month,$585 payable at the beginning of a quarter (via credit card, Venmo or Zelle)
Benefits:
Become an active member of a group
Gain access to employment, freelance, volunteer, project work and otheropportunities to make an impact, earn money and stay relevant.
Additional assistance includes career counseling, health and wellness support, personal wealth management and otherspecialized services. Billed separately on an as-used basis.
“Ageism in the Workplace” (A LinkedIn Live event)
In April, 2023 John Furth talked with two HR experts about their careers and lives as 60-something year-olds. In this video clip they address the points:
Ageism is the one form of discrimination that affects everyone. It is most apparent at the beginning and the end of our careers. Beliefs about age are so insidious that we often don’t realize how much we internalize these associations and sabotage ourselves and our potential.
While age-related declines in physical, emotional and mental abilities may impact the options available to us, we need to be able to recognize and act on new and unexpected opportunities.
Older executives make better employees
Studies have found that older employees and executives:
Are more likely to engage in proactive behaviors at work, such as seeking out new challenges and opportunities for learning and development.
Tend to perform better than younger workers in jobs that require experience, problem-solving and social skills.
Are most focused and productive from the age of 50 to 80.
Is being an employee no longer an option?
Build a business of your own!
Recording of a LinkedIn Live event from May 12, 2022
Be your own hero!
As an employee, you strike a bargain with your employer. You’re paid, offered opportunities to grow personally and professionally and be part of something bigger than yourself. In exchange, you are expected to keep less-than-desirable character traits under wraps and become the person they want you to be.
When I went independent at the age of 54, I discovered I had unwittingly struck another bargain: While I was free to make my own decisions and run my business the way I wanted to, I also suffered through financial worries, doubts and, worse of all, the nagging feeling that I was failing and making poor choices.
I also had extended moments of the kind of loneliness that forces you to confront yourself, your weaknesses and your demons. I eventually (re-)learned and accepted who I was - warts and all. I now celebrate that person and his accomplishments every day.
And I’ve learned an important lesson that I try to pass on as much as possible: It’s not what you do that defines your life but it’s who you are being…and only you can make that happen!
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