LifeLaunch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (5th Edition)

A LifeLaunch is the beginning of a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday's commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.

Pamela D McLean, CEO and co-founder of The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, a learning organization focused on transition and change, coaching education, and coaching services, is an educator, writer and lecturer.
McLean holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Graduate University and brings 30 years of experience as a licensed clinical and organizational psychologist, executive coach and leader in the filed of coaching. She is a speaker on topics Transitions, Coaching Excellence, and Women in Leadership. Her work is fueled by her passionate interest in how we develop and change as adults at work and at home. Her original research examined how women plan their lives, studying the lives of 500 women and analyzing the significance of intentionality at various states in life's journey.
She has been on the faculty of Antioch University and currently serves on the Harvard Women's Leadership Board, JFK School of Public Policy; she is a member of Women Presidents Organization, serves on the board of her regional Planned Parenthood affiliate, the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, Advisory Council member of Women's Center for Applied Leadership, a member of the American Psychological Association Division 13 of APA in consulting Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Frederic M Hudson co-founder, is a retired educator, writer and recognized expert in the field of adult development. He is widely respected for his contributions to the fields of adult development, career transition planning, human and organizational development, and coaching.
As a Rockfeller and Danforth Fellow, Hudson earned his doctorate at Columbia University in New York and taught at the Colby College and the University of San Francisco before moving to Santa Barbara in the early 1970's where he was the founding president of The Fielding Graduate Institute from 1974-1986. In 1987 he and McLean founded The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, an international learning organization focused on transition, change and renewal, coaching education and leadership coaching. The central theme of the organization is to teach adults to become masters of change in their lives at work and at home.