ABOUT KAREN VIERNEISEL

Karen, a Trained Retirement Coach, is an entertaining storyteller and speaker. She engages her audiences with her lively and candid style. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and her retirement coaching credentials from Retirement Options, the leader in retirement coach training.

Retired from the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) where she was the Deputy Director, Karen was surprised by the psychological adjustment this much awaited change wrought in her life. Her bewilderment prompted her to think about her purpose in life.

She realized teaching and learning were in her bones. Before starting her career in government, she was a college educator. While working in government, she used her teaching skills to mentor new employees and coordinate the employee training program. She decided she wanted to teach others what she had learned about the retirement transition.

So Karen read widely in the literature about retirement, trends in aging, the search for meaning in second adulthood, and change management. She took an assessment tool by Retirement Options called the “Retirement Success Profile” that perfectly pinpointed the area in which she was still struggling—work reorientation. She needed work more than she had realized. Work had structured her time, but more importantly, it had provided her with an identity and purpose.

That desire for purpose led her to launch LIFESTYLE TRANSITIONS, a small business devoted to sharing information about pre-retirement life planning.

Karen knows there are a growing number of on-line resources for retirement life planning. But she believes she offers something that sets her apart from these other ventures. Her program is steeped in real-life stories that make her seminars unique. She hopes LIFESTYLE TRANSITIONS will inspire those looking for information about retirement planning—individuals and corporate and government organizations—to use her services to illuminate the retirement equation: financial planning + life planning = a happy retirement.

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