Designing Your Encore Career: A Practical Workbook

An encore career is most likely to succeed when designed with the same care as any other career move. This hands-on course gives you a workbook approach to that design, ending with a plan you can begin executing immediately. By the end of this course you will have a written self-assessment of skills, interests, and energy, a shortlist of encore opportunities, an offer-design document including services and pricing if relevant, a marketing and outreach plan, and a launch schedule. What you will learn: - How to translate decades of experience into transferable skills and offer ideas - How to identify the second-act forms that fit your energy and life setting - How to research opportunities through alumni networks, nonprofits, boards, and former colleagues - How to design a service offering with clear scope, pricing, and engagement model where relevant - How to build a simple personal brand including a brief bio, profile, and website - How to plan outreach that does not feel like cold sales - How to schedule the first six months including pilots, paid work, and learning loops The course is structured as a workbook. Each module covers one piece, provides templates, walks through a filled example, and guides you to complete your own version. This course is written for people within two years of retirement or in early retirement who want to launch encore work. By the end you will have replaced vague ideas of doing something meaningful with a concrete plan, and the first six months of your second act will be built on deliberate design rather than improvisation.