Great Assessments:

  • Self Assessment by KS
  • Greatness Quiz
  • KOLBE Assessments
  • Strengths Finder Assessments

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Great Reading

Thought Leaders

  • Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, by David Korten
  • Avalanche, by Brugh Joy
  • Breaking Point, by George Land & Beth Jarman
  • Choice Theory, by William Glasser, MD
  • Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, by Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Corporation, by Joel Bakan
  • Creativity in Business, by Micheal Ray (with Rochelle Meyers)
  • Critical Path: Operating Manual for Space Ship Earth and all writings by R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Global Mind Change, by Willis Harman
  • Jump Time: Shaping Your Future in a Time of Radical Change, by Jean Houston
  • Leading In A Time of Change: What It Will Take To Lead Tomorrow, by Peter F. Drucker
  • Out of the Crisis, by Deming
  • Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, by David R. Hawkins, MD
  • The Chalice & The Blade, by Riane Eisler
  • The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World, by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., and      Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
  • The Dance of Change, by Peter Senge
  • The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way, by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • The Spectrum of Consciousness, by Ken Wilbur
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Waking Up in Time, by Peter Russell

 

 

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About Visionaries

  • A Visionary Life, by Mark Allen
  • Stewardship, by Peter Block
  • The Transformers, by Jacqueline Small
  • The Visionary’s Handbook, by Watts Wacker & Jim Taylor
  • Visionaries Have Wrinkles, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC

 

 

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Adult Development & Ageless Futures

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Midlife Crisis/Opportunities & Transition

  • Celebrate Midlife, by Mary Stein
  • Crossing the Canyon: A Woman’s Midlife Journey, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC
  • Mastering Midlife Reinvention, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC
  • Midlife and After, by Stein
  • Midlife, by Janis Brewie & Annie Breann
  • Once Upon A Midlife, by Alan B. Shineman, MD
  • Ripe, by Julia Moulden
  • The Art of Midlife, by Linda N. Eldstein
  • Wise Choices Beyond Midlife: Women Mapping the Journey Ahead, by Lucy Scott

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Aging Brain

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Women & Aging:

  • As We Are Now, by Mary Sarton
  • At Seventy: A Journal, by May Sarton
  • Daughters of the Elderly, Edited by Jan Norris. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
  • Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year, by May Sarton
  • I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, by Nora Ephron
  • Over the Hill: Ageism Between Women, by Baba Cooper
  • Journal of a Solitude, by May Sarton
  • Still Dancing: Life Choices and Challenges for women, by Mary McConnell. Tucson, AR: Harbinger House, 1990
  • Syndrome W: A Woman’s Guide to , by Harriette R. Mogul
  • By Youth Possessed, The Denial of Aging in America, by Victoria Secunda
  • Crones Don’t Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women, by Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Dancing in the Flames, by Marion Woodman
  • Great Old Broads Speak Out, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC
  • Greatest Hits: Songs from  an Aging Sex Bomb, by K.T. Oslin, (Apr 27, 1993)
  • Growing Old Disgracefully, by Hen Co-op
  • It’s Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It, by Eda Leshan
  • It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now, by Barbara Sher
  • Mirror, Mirror: The Terror of Not Being Young, by Elsie Melamud, Ph.D
  • Old and Smart, Women and Aging, by Betty Nickerson
  • On Women Turning 50, by Cathleen Rountree
  • Prime Time: Love, Health, Sex, by Jane Fonda
  • Journey Through Menopause, A Personal Rite of Passage, by Christine Dowling
  • The Measure of My Days, by Florida Scott Maxwell
  • When I am an old woman I shall wear  Purple, edited by Sandra Martz. Watsonville, CA: Paper-Mache Press, 1987
  • Wise Choices Beyond Midlife: Women Mapping the Journey Ahead, by Lucy Scott
  •  The Late Bloomer: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype (Dangerous Old Woman) by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Jul 1, 2012)
  • Women, Aging and Ageism, edited by Evelyn Rosenthal. Ginghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc. 1990
  • Women as they age: Challenge, opportunity, and Triumph, edited  by Dianne Garner and Susan O. Mercer. Binghamton, N.Y.: The Haworth Press, Inc. 1989.

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Designing What’s Next: Transitions, Renewal & Reinvention

  • Betwixt and Between, by Louis Courdis, Mahdi & Stevens
  • Chapters, by Carpenter
  • Crossing the Canyon: A Woman’s Midlife Journey, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC
  • Crossing the Unknown Sea, by David Whyte
  • Life Changes, by Spencer & Adams
  • Life Launch, by Frederick M. Hudson
  • Making A Life, by Mark Albion
  • Oh, the Places You Will Go!, by Dr. Seuss
  • The Greatness Challenge, by Karen Sands, MCC, BCC
  • Transitions and The Way of Transitions, by William Bridges
  • What Should I Do with My Life?, by Po Bronson
  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
  • Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer  Johnson, MD

 

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Career Change, Reinvention

  •  Career Chase, by Helen Harkness
  • Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career, by Timothy Clark Paperback
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.
  • What Color is Your Parachute, by Richard Nelson Boyles
  • When Money Isn’t Enough, by Connie Glazer & B. Smiley
  • When Smart People Fail, by Carol Hyatt

Sustainable Success

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Women’s Spirituality & Development:

  • A Woman’s Book of Life, by Joan Borysenko
  • Any and all of Linda Schierse Leonard’s books
  • Any and all of Marion Woodman’s books
  • Composing a Life, by Mary Kathryn Bateson
  • Goddesses in Everywoman, by Jean Shinoda Bolen Good Morning Midnight, by Jean Rise
  • Good Morning Midnight, by Jean Rise
  • Heroine’s Journey, by Maureen Murdock
  • Meditation for Women Who Do Too Much, by Ann Wilson Shiff
  • Meeting the Mad Woman, by Linda Schierse Leonard
  • The Book of Lilith, by Barbara Black-Koltuv
  • The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, by Sherry R. Anderson, Patricia Hopkins
  • The Summer Before the Dark, by Doris Lessing
  • The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Linda S. Leonard
  • To Be a Woman, by Connie Sweng
  • Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

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Managing Life’s Grief, Death and Loss:

  • Don’t Take My Grief Away From Me, by Doug Manning
  • Good Grief, by Glen W. Davidon
  • Grief, Dying and Death, by Therese A. Rando
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Love, by William Bloomfield, Melba Colgrove, Peter McWilliams
  • On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Stress, Loss and Grief by John Schneider
  • They need to Know: How to Teach Children About Death, by Audrey Gordon & D. Klass
  • Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  • Understanding Mourning, by Glen Davidson
  • Widow, by Lynne Caine

Relationships

  • Embracing Each Other, by Hal & Sidra Stone
  • A Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by D. Schnarch
  • Couples: Exploring and Understanding the Cycles of Intimate Relationships, by Barry Dym and Michael L. J Glenn
  • Getting the Love You Want, by Hendrix Harville
  • Soul Mates, by Thomas Moore
  • The Dynamics of Divorce: A Life Cycle Perspective, by F. W. Kaslow and L. L. Schwartz
  • The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts, by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee
  • Will Love Last: A Couples Roadmap, by Samuel R. Hamburg
  • The Marriage of Betty & Beau, by Chrstopher Durang

 

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Retirement Redefined

  • Transitions: A woman’s Guide to Successful Retirement, by Diana Cort Van Arsdale and Phyllis Newman. New York: Harper Collins

Finances

  • 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, by Suze Orman
  • Die Broke: A Radical 4-Part Financial Plan, by Stephen Polan and Mark Levine
  • Money Harmony, by Olivia Mellon
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki
  • Rich Woman, by Kim Kiyosaki
  • Your Money or Your Life: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

 

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Life-Long Learning

  • Inventing the Future, by Marilee Zendack
  • Learning as a Way of Being, by Peter Vail
  • Super Learning, by Schroeder and Ostrander
  • Super Memory, by Ostrander and Schroeder
  • The Everyday Genius, by Peter Kline

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Visionary Entrepreneurship & Boomerpreneurs

  • Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, by Alexander Osterwalder
  • Quitter, by Jon Acof
  • The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets, by Brant Cooper,      Patrick Vlaskovits  and Eric Ries (Feb 26, 2013)

 

 

 

 

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Marketing to Boomers

  • Ageless Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the Hearts and Minds of the New Customer Majority, by David Wolfe & Robert Snyder
  • Boomer Consumer, by Matt Thornhill
  • Generation geless, by J.Walker Smith & Ann Clurman
  • No B.S. Guide to Marketing to Leading-Edge Boomers and Seniors, by Dan S. Kennedy and Chip Kessler
  • The New Old, by David Cravit
  • Turning Silver into Gold, by Dr. Mary S. Furlong

 

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Trends & the Future

  • Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning, by William Van Dusen Wishard
  • Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584-2069, by William Straus, Neil Howe
  • Influence, by Maddy Dyctwald
  • Navigating the Future, by Tarlow
  • Our Final Hour, by Sir Martin Rees
  • The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next, by Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker
  • The Futurist Journal

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Great Links

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Artivist
Association of Spirit at Work (ASAW)
Athena Online Business Knowledge Network
Awakening the Dreamer
American Society on Aging
Association of Professional Futurists
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Business for Social Responsibility
Commonway Institute
Cultural Creatives Network
CulturalCreatives.org
European Bahai Business Forum
First Matter
Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Heartland Institute
Heiffer Fund
Institute of Noetic Sciences
International Coach Federation
New Dimensions Radio
Sacred Heart University
Social Venture Network
Spirit in Business
Success-talk
Sustainable Business Institute
Voice America Radio
W. Edwards Deming
Women’s Calendar
World Business Academy
World Future Society
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