Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You – Conversation with Dr. Teresa Amabile

Dr. Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, discusses key ideas from her book Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, which explores retirement as a major life transition, both exciting and challenging and offers insights that go beyond finances and health, focusing instead on identity, relationships, and creating a fulfilling post-career life. Professor Teresa shared deep insights on retirement as a complex life transition that goes far beyond financial planning, highlighting the emotional, relational, and structural challenges people face when they leave full-time work. Drawing on over 40 years of research on creativity, motivation, and workplace dynamics, she explained how retirees often grapple with the loss of professional identity, daily relationships, and the familiar structure that work provides, and outlined four key developmental tasks, from deciding when and how to retire to building and consolidating a new life structure that can make this phase both exciting and fulfilling when approached with self-awareness, experimentation, and patience. This podcast is brought to you by Global Management Consultancy. For more information, please visit www.globalmanagementconsultancy.com. Disclaimer: A. The background music incorporated in this video is the intellectual property of its respective developer and is protected under applicable copyright laws. Notwithstanding that it is a free-to-use version, Business Talk, Global Management Consultancy, and Deepak Bhatt do not own, and expressly do not claim, any rights, title, or interest in or to this music. B. Dr. Teresa Amabile shared insightful perspectives from her acclaimed book “Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You,” during her engaging conversation on the Business Talk podcast. The uploaded video contains copyrighted content, so changing any graphics, music, or on-screen appearance of the author or host is not allowed.