David Corbett

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David D. Corbett is a nationally recognized authority on creating meaningful alternatives to retirement, in particular, how individuals and society must come to grips with the 20- to 25-year bonus of active, healthy years their future may hold.

Dave Corbett is the founder of New Directions, Inc, based in Boston, MA, which guides executives and professionals in creating new career and post-career opportunities that help them achieve their life goals. In the mid 1990's, he launched the Life Portfolio Program™ to help individuals step away from grueling full-time schedules and move on to more balanced, flexible portfolios that include part-time work, continued learning, creative projects, more family and leisure time, and giving back to one's community, local or beyond.

Dave also created the Foundation for New Directions, which mobilizes New Directions clients and friends as volunteer mentors to help low-income job seekers land sustainable employment.

In 2007, his book, "Portfolio Life - The New Path to Work, Purpose and Passion Over 50", was published by John Wiley & Sons (Jossey-Bass.) Portfolio Life is now in its third printing and has been translated into Korean and Mandarin Chinese. The book is Dave's challenge to potential "retirees" to respond creatively to this new bonus of time and opportunity and to discard forever any passive notion of "retirement."

Dave speaks widely, stressing that careers and financial assets are only parts of a larger search for purpose and legacy. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, CFO Magazine, Kiplinger's and other major business publications. He has also addressed business and service associations around the nation, as well as alumni of leading graduate schools including Stanford, Kellogg, Harvard, Tuck, Wharton, Fuqua, Michigan and Yale.

Dave is an adviser to the MIT AgeLab, a trustee of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum and Andover-Newton Theological School, and a former member of the national board of A Better Chance (ABC). He also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Educated at Northwestern University (B.A.) and New York University (M.B.A.), he worked for Johnson & Johnson in marketing. He then spent 12 years in executive recruiting, including Korn/Ferry International, before founding New Directions in 1986.

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