Redefining retirement

  Talking with a group of senior professionals last week, I reminded them of Logan Pearsall-Smith’s words, "There are two things ...

Who's in demand?

Susie Cummings, the founder of Nurole*,  asks this in her March newsletter. Looking at the data on the 500+ chairs and non-executive...

Life lessons with Lucy

So far none of our clients has taken the plunge that Lucy Kellaway did - leaving her job, home, and husband to retrain as a teacher (an...

Preparing for life outside the bubble

When was the last time you actually applied for a job, had a formal interview, and went through the whole process? In Nick Holt’s case,...

Becoming an "Ex"

For people at the top of their game, whatever that game may be, the road to retirement and beyond can be a scary one. The “game” can be...

Planning is not an optional extra

The Centre for Ageing Better’s August report,  Mid-life support: insights for employers, starts from the premise that not enough of us ...

Making time

Camilla Cavendish makes a telling point in her recent book Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World. “It’s not old age that’s getting...

Flawed Thinking

Every law firm will tell you that its partners are the foundation of their firm’s success. This success hinges on the strengths of the ...

You are not alone

We were very taken with What Companies Should Do About Their Surplus of Older Men by Michael Skapinker in the FT at the end of March. B...

How seriously do you treat partner retirement?

This week The Lawyer published A lost generation: Why firms are failing their older lawyers - a survey of the UK’s largest firms on the...

Adding value

We are invariably asked - both by the firms and the individuals we work with - about the benefits to firms of career transition managem...

Making Time for Transition

Busy lives and the inexorable pressure of the billable hour make finding time and space for career planning challenging at be...

Ready for reinvention?

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that we are all going to live longer. By 2045, 25% of the UK population will be over 65. We are already ...

Investment in your senior people. The right thing to do?

Making investment decisions to grow and develop new talent is a no-brainer. The return to the business on such investment is clear and ...

The C word

Change may be inevitable but that doesn't mean it is welcome. Far from it. Everyone has to leave their law firm but staying put may oft...

Rethinking what it means to retire

An article in June 2016's issue of the Harvard Business Review, Next-Gen Retirement, draws on in-depth interviews with 100 US executive...

Baby Boomers

Altman-Weil recently released their 2016 Law Firms in Transition Flash Survey. We were particularly struck by the finding that of the l...