Empty Nest, Empty Desk, What's Next? How Boomer Professional Women Are Reinventing Their Retirement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781432746131)

After thirty-five years as a corporate executive and coach, Dr. Rita Smith was looking forward to her well-earned retirement. And then she experienced it: retirement shock syndrome. As a baby boomer and a woman, she was a pioneer in handling the psychological, financial, and physical changes of retirement.

To help other women navigate this uncharted territory, Smith interviewed over two hundred professionals about how they are influenced by their unique generational identity. Empty Nest, Empty Desk, What's Next? How Boomer Professional Women Are Reinventing Their Retirement includes their inspirational stories along with a robust resource list and a toolkit of exercises to help the reader design her unique retirement lifestyle.

Smith's book provides the missing guidance and support to help female baby boomer professionals reinvent a retirement that works for them.