Our Team - Certified Professional Retirement Coach

Robert Laura, AAMS, CPRC, CMFC, CRPC

Robert Laura is the Retirement Activist who is committed to changing the way people think about and prepare for every aspect of retirement. His nationally syndicated columns at Forbes.com and Financial Advisor magazine reflect his ground breaking efforts to challenge the status quo of traditional retirement planning.

As a former social worker and certified personal trainer turned money manager and author, he has found that retirement is among the most fascinating, yet least understood, phases of life. Through interviews with celebrities, professional athletes, entertainers, leading experts, and his own clients, he’s develop a powerful message to tackle the mental, social, spiritual, and financial aspects of retirement. His objective is simple: to help people create a no-regrets retirement plan.

As the RETIREMENT ACTIVIST, Robert founded RetirementProject.org and authored Naked Retirement, as well as a number of guides to help individuals succeed in this next chapter of life. In addition to his own writings, he frequently appears in major business media such as Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Investor’s Business Daily, Yahoo Finance, The Street, and more.

Robert’s presentations are ideal for every group, from business owners and executives to employees, associations, and senior citizens. His charismatic and humorous style allows his audiences to get educated in an entertaining way as he creates a memorable experience that touches both the mind and heart. With thought-provoking insights, vivid stories, and a frequent dose of humor, he reaches audiences in a way they do not forget.

His presentations are comfortable and enlightening because he helps people see the solutions for retirement and investing success through their own personal experiences and beliefs. In this manner he provides not only guidance, but also the motivation people need to attain the retirement and financial life they deserve.

Robert conducts both trainings for other financial professionals as well as workshops and webinars for individuals and couples designed to help people prepare for every aspect of retirement. He has been a speaking and teaching economic, investment, and retirement based programs for over 15 years. He is married to his amazing wife Amie, and together they have a blended family with four children; Connor, Ava, Lucas, and Drake.

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Dorian Mintzer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCC (Board Certified Coach)

With over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Dorian (aka Dori) Mintzer is an experienced therapist; retirement transition, relationship, money and executive coach; consultant; writer; speaker and teacher. Her expertise in adult development, holistic life planning and positive psychology, combined with her life experiences, have led to her passion helping individuals and couples embrace their “bonus years” as a time to grow, learn and evolve. She is founder of two free virtual communities: The Boomers and Beyond Special Interest Group for inter-disciplinary professionals and a monthly webinar–The 4^th Tuesday Revolutionize your Retirement Interview with Expert’s Series to Help you Create a Fulfilling Second Half of Life for professionals and the public. She teaches in a Gerontology program and provides presentations to professional and community organizations.

Dori is co-author of The Couples Retirement Puzzle: The 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together, a co-producer of the Career Playbook: Second Half Plays eBook, and has contributed to a number of other books which include Live Smart After 50!, Not your Mother’s Retirement, 65 Thing to do when you Retire, 70 Things to do when you Turn 70 and 80 Things to do when you Turn 80. She has been featured in the NY Times, WS Journal, USA Today, CNN Money, ABC evening News and the Today Show and has done a TedX New Bedford presentation: “Embracing your Bonus Years.“ Her website is www.revolutionizeretirement.com. Dori lives in Brookline, MA with her husband and son (when he’s home from college) and works in person and over the phone.

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Gillian Leithman, Ph.D

Dr. Gill is a corporate trainer specializing in health and wellness seminars and workshops. For the past 12 years, her focus has been on teaching people how to deal with personal and professional challenges. All her work is based on the latest social science research. She is best known for her pre-retirement workshops which help prepare people for the emotional transition from work to retirement. When she is not facilitating seminars, she teaches in the faculty of management at the John Molson School of Business and the Goodman Institute for Investment Management at Concordia University.

Gillian has facilitated programs for organizations such as Bell Canada, Air Canada, Investors Group, Combined Jewish Appeal, Federal Express, Novartis, the RCMP, Telus and Exxon Mobil. She also works with private enterprise, universities, hospitals and entrepreneurs. Her research interests include age perceptions, the aging workforce, retirement and knowledge transfer and management.

Her work has been featured at the Canadian Psychological Association, the Ontario and Canadian Gerontological Associations and the Canadian Council for Small Business and Enterprise. She has also been the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada in 2005 and 2011 and featured in a number of media outlets

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Charles J. Morris, Ph.D

Charles J. Morris is an emeritus professor of psychology and former provost from Denison University. He and his wife Carol retired in 1999, moved to Niceville, FL, where they lived for 14 years. During that time, Charlie taught in the Semester at Sea Program on three occasions (2009, 2011, and 2013). Charlie continues his study of various issues relating to aging, including memory and the application of positive psychology to life in retirement. They moved to Indianapolis in 2014 in order to be closer to one of their two children and two of their grandchildren. Today, they have four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. In retirement, Charlie and Carol have traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world, visiting more than 50 countries.

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