Key Themes for Keynotes & Featured Presentations
- Forward Thinking: "If I Knew Now What I'll Know Then!"
- Change Management & Self-Leadership
- Cross Generation Collaboration
- The Age Wave PLUS (Baby Boomers PLUS Their Kids & Parents)
- Sustainable Communities, Workplaces & Lifestyles: Decisions, Dynamics & Technology
"Usually [members] all sit there listening politely. When PJ is finished, they are all excited, engaged and
animated...and what really matters—ready for action!"
— Director of Education, Professional Trade Association
Futurist and Strategist PJ Wade is "THE CATALYST"
—intent on challenging The Best to become even better.
Introducing PJ…
A Few Highlights about PJ
- Thought-provoking, versatile Professional Speaker with over 8000 hours experience with audiences from 10 to 1000+.
- Futurist and Professional Member, World Future Society
- Accredited Professional Speaker & Professional Member: Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, National Speakers Association, Women in Film & Television
- Internationally-recognized "new retirement" authority with an innovative “holistic” viewpoint. PJ goes beyond financial planning to look at life after traditional work—the third lifetime—The New "Unretirement."
- Creator and Producer of Canada's first self-directed Retirement Planning Telecourse. PJ developed one version for TVOntario, one for British Columbia's Knowledge Network and a complete National Program.
PJ was associate producer, segment writer and on-air commentator for the accompanying television series, Future $ense: Financial Planning for Your Retirement. Repeat airings 1994-1997
- Author of six books, including:
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The Actionbook: Financial Strategies for Your Future and
Your Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents
Plus More Books... to be Published in 2008-2009:
Forward Thinking: “If I Knew NOW What I’ll Know THEN”
SHARPEN UP: From Experience To Expertise
Community-Building: A New Place To Start
Have Your Home and Money Too, Third Edition
Reverse Mortgages: Best Friend, Worst Enemy...Your Choice!
- Experienced UNRETIREMENT consultant
- Home equity management authority and finance/real estate professional development educator
- Creator of the “Knowledge Accelerator” programs on financial, unretirement, Boomer and the Maturing Marketplace topics
- Featured expert on CBC Newsworld The Money Show
- Lead trend columnist for national 50+ monthly (print/online), 1987-2006
- Featured columnist for Wall Street Journal-acclaimed international news service, 1999-
- The Improvement Coach — Creator of the innovative Breaking Patterns series, which has been presented in a variety of formats, from seminars at the University of Toronto to a weekly radio program... The latest? Breaking Patterns: The Key to Self-Leadership
- Widely-read trend, financial, housing and consumer commentator: Credited with more than 1600 published articles.
Featured in the National Post, The Financial Post, The Financial Post Magazine, The Real Estate Magazine, Mature Lifestyles, Forever Young, The Advisor's Edge…
- Online content developer and provider featured on numerous websites including Quicken.ca and The Wall Street Journal-acclaimed International News Service RealtyTimes.com
- Provocative Broadcaster, popular futurist/commentator on radio stations from Vancouver to Newfoundland. Featured authority in interviews on Global TV, CTV, CBC, CITY-TV...
- Frequently quoted in Business & Consumer Media: National Post, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, CBC TV Venture, Edmonton Journal, Chatelaine Magazine, Human Resources Magazine, Training Technology Monitor, Why Magazine, GoodTimes, CBC Newsworld, Global Stratagems…
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