Your Retirement Quest: 10 Secrets for Creating and Living a Fulfilling Retirement

Since Your Retirement Quest was published in 2010, Keith Lawrence’s and Alan Spector’s retirement life planning concepts and tools have stood the test of time. The many thousands who have read the book and attended workshops conducted by the authors across the country have validated that life planning enables retirees to live the fulfilling retirement they have worked so hard to deserve.

Your Retirement Quest brings all the essential elements to living a fulfilling retirement together in one place. The book empowers both prospective and current retirees to envision their future, to develop a personal plan that is unique to their life circumstances, to stimulate provocative “crucial conversations” that ensure alignment of their vision and plan with those closest to them, to “practice retirement” for those still working, and to implement their plan and keep it fresh throughout their retirement years.

Your Retirement Quest does this by identifying and describing each of the “10 key elements of a fulfilling retirement,” by relating the real-life stories of retirees who have over 300 cumulative years of retirement experience, by sharing pertinent supporting research, by recognizing the importance of financial security but only in the context of the many other factors that make up a meaningful future, and by providing a practical approach to retirement life planning.

Keith Lawrence is President of Sustaining Success Solutions, a management consulting firm dedicated to unleashing potential and co-founder of LifeScape SolutionsTM. Keith has consulted with, among others, General Electric, Toyota, Staples, General Mills, and Bridgestone. Keith's prior experience includes 32 years at Procter & Gamble, where he was a Directory of Human Resources and had assignments across multiple global businesses and functions. He led worldwide efforts at P&G to define leadership, integrate new employees from several acquisitions (e.g., Gillette), and numerous startups and restructurings. Keith is a sought-after speaker at industry and academic events with engagements in 17 countries and for 15,000 people. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor s in Industrial Engineering and has completed his MBA. Prior to co-authoring Your Retirement Quest, Keith contributed to numerous books and articles.

Alan Spector retired from a 33-year career at Procter & Gamble as a Directory of Worldwide Quality Assurance, having also managed worldwide Product Supply and Research & Development organizations. In retirement, Alan has volunteered as a management and quality assurance consultant, bringing business practices to nonprofits and community initiatives. Prior to co-authoring Your Requirement Quest, Alan authored two books, Baseball: Never To Old to Play The Game and Hail Hail to U City High, as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He lectures at university and high school creative writing classes and has presented nonprofit business-oriented practices to conferences at the RAND Corporation, The Michigan Ross School of Business, and The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. Alan is co-founder of LifeScape SolutionsTM, a company that conducts life-planning seminars for prospective retirees while also helping their employers increase the engagement of their most experienced employees.