Recently retired and discovering that freedom alone does not provide direction.
Private Coaching
You built a successful career. What will make the next chapter worth living?
A six-month private coaching engagement for recently retired executives who have earned the freedom to choose—and want to build a next chapter with purpose, vitality, contribution, and genuine direction.
Who this is for
A specific kind of person at a specific kind of moment.
This work is for successful executives who are recently retired, approaching retirement, or have stepped away from a primary career and discovered that freedom alone does not answer the deeper questions.
You may be asking: Who am I without the role? What will make the next decade meaningful? How do I use my experience, relationships, health, resources, and freedom well? What kind of contribution do I still want to make?
You are capable, thoughtful, and still ambitious. You are not looking for someone to hand you generic answers. You want a trusted thought partner who will help you examine the right questions, challenge your assumptions, and turn clarity into deliberate action.
This may also be right for you if…
Brett also works with a limited number of founders, entrepreneurs, senior leaders considering an exit, and executives at a major transition point who are asking similarly consequential questions about identity, direction, and what comes next.
The moments that bring people to Brett
Approaching retirement and wanting to think clearly about what comes next before the transition happens.
Leaving a senior role, selling a company, or stepping away from a primary career.
Redefining success after realizing that achievement alone is no longer a sufficient measure.
Building or scaling a business while confronting consequential strategic and personal decisions.
Recovering from an unexpected career disruption without allowing the disruption to define what comes next.
What this is not
This is not financial planning, therapy, or a job-search service. Those resources can be valuable. This work is different: a private coaching relationship for thinking clearly about identity, meaning, contribution, and how you want to live after a successful first career.
What the work explores
The questions successful people rarely get to sit with seriously.
The coaching does not follow a fixed curriculum. It follows you—your situation, your history, your questions, and the decisions that actually matter at this point in your life.
Across six months, the work may explore leadership, strategic decisions, professional identity, ambition, relationships, energy, contribution, and the way you want to live. The precise agenda follows your situation. The common objective is greater clarity about what matters, more honest choices, and meaningful movement on the decisions that have remained unresolved.
These are not soft questions. For accomplished people, they are among the most challenging and most important work available to them.
Brett’s approach
I do not tell clients what to want. I create the conditions in which serious people can think clearly.
My approach draws on doctoral research in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 25 years of international corporate leadership, extensive executive-coaching experience, and my own experience of building and selling a business, navigating profound loss, and reinventing my work and life more than once.
I am direct. I will challenge you when you are settling or avoiding. I will also listen carefully enough to hear what you are not yet saying. The goal is not to make you feel good about the questions. The goal is to help you answer them.
The engagement
Private, focused, and built for depth.
One to onePrivate coaching only
Six monthsBi-weekly sessions
LimitedSmall number of clients
Brett works with a small number of clients at any given time. This is intentional. The work requires genuine attention, and genuine attention requires limits.
What changes
What you can expect from six months of serious work.
By the end of our work, you will not have a generic retirement plan. You will have greater clarity about who you are without the title, what deserves your energy now, and the decisions and commitments that will make the next chapter feel chosen rather than accidental.
Identity beyond the role
A clearer understanding of who you are when the title is no longer the center of your life.
A deliberate direction
A personal vision for contribution, work, relationships, health, vitality, and the way you want to live.
Better decisions
Greater confidence about what to pursue, what to decline, and what no longer deserves your attention.
Meaningful movement
Specific commitments and accountability that turn reflection into an active, purposeful next chapter.
What clients say
Ambition and a fuller life can belong in the same conversation.
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Brett has been my executive coach for almost four years. His superpower is his ability to help formulate ambitious strategic goals and then develop concrete action plans to achieve them. He is simultaneously coach, mentor, and sherpa. His unwavering positivity is infectious.
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Over my 25 plus years in a Fortune 100 company, I have worked with several executive coaches. Brett is a class above others. He helps me see the larger picture and holds me accountable to move the needle.
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Brett's coaching has constantly unlocked new areas of growth and success in revenue, net income, and my personal life.
Frequently asked questions
Questions worth answering before we begin.
I've been successful throughout my career, so why do I feel so lost now?
Your career gave you more than income. It provided identity, structure, relationships, challenge, and a sense of contribution. When that chapter changes or ends, feeling disoriented is not a failure—it is a signal that your old definition of success no longer provides enough direction.
Should I begin coaching before I retire or sell my business, or wait until afterward?
You do not need to wait until the transition is complete. Beginning beforehand gives you space to consider what you are moving toward, not merely what you are leaving. Coaching can also help after an exit, especially when the reality of life without the role feels different from what you expected.
What does executive transition coaching actually help me accomplish?
The work helps you clarify what matters now, examine the choices in front of you, and turn that clarity into deliberate action. Depending on your situation, that may involve identity, meaning, contribution, relationships, or deciding what deserves your energy in the next chapter.
How is working with you different from working with a traditional executive coach?
Traditional executive coaching often concentrates on performing more effectively in your current or next professional role. My work can include leadership and business decisions, but it also makes room for deeper questions about identity, ambition, meaning, and the life you want your success to support.
How is coaching different from therapy?
Therapy commonly addresses mental-health symptoms, past wounds, or clinical concerns. Coaching is future-focused work for people ready to examine decisions, challenge assumptions, and take deliberate action. Coaching is not a substitute for mental-health treatment when clinical care is needed.
Do I need to know what I want from my next chapter before we begin?
No. Many clients begin precisely because they do not yet know what they want. You only need a willingness to think honestly, question familiar assumptions, and explore possibilities without rushing toward a convenient answer.
Can you help if I'm deciding between retirement, another leadership role, board work, or starting something new?
Yes. I will not choose the answer for you or push you toward a predetermined version of retirement. We will examine what each possibility offers, what it asks of you, and whether it fits the person and life you are becoming.
Is this coaching only for retired executives?
No. While the primary focus is recently retired executives and those approaching retirement, I also work with founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and accomplished leaders facing consequential decisions or transitions—anyone asking seriously about identity, direction, and what comes next.
What happens during a typical coaching session?
Each private session follows the decisions and questions that matter most in your life at that moment. I listen carefully, challenge assumptions and avoidance, help you see the larger picture, and work with you to translate insight into concrete decisions and action.
How long does the coaching engagement last?
The initial engagement lasts six months and includes private, biweekly sessions. That duration gives us enough time to move beyond a quick decision and do the deeper work of creating clarity, testing choices, and building meaningful momentum.
How much does private coaching cost?
Private coaching is a six-month commitment, offered to a limited number of clients at a time. Brett discusses the investment personally after an initial conversation, once both of you understand whether the work is the right fit.
What results should I realistically expect from six months of coaching?
Clients typically finish with greater clarity about what matters, a more deliberate direction, and concrete decisions and actions that move their leadership, business, or life forward. Coaching cannot manufacture certainty or make choices for you; it creates the structure, challenge, and accountability needed to do that work seriously.
The first step
Begin with one honest conversation.
Tell Brett a little about where you are and what you are thinking about. He will respond personally and, if the fit seems right, invite you to a private 30-minute conversation. If he does not believe the work is the right fit, he will say so honestly.
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