Areas of Concentration:
- 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
"PJ shattered assumptions I didn't even see!"
—Director of Human Resources, Financial Services Corporation
Futurist & Strategist PJ Wade believes the first—and often overlooked—step toward Forward Thinking is to identify "the box" and, therefore, to reduce resistance to change, enhance creativity, inspire innovation, strengthen decision making, and lead yourself and others toward a brilliant future!
PJ catalyzes individuals and organizations into thinking, communicating and acting beyond past experience and ingrained stereotypes, and across generational barriers to move toward AGE-FREE LIVING.
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Futurist and Strategist PJ Wade is "THE CATALYST"
—intent on challenging " The Best" to become Even Better!
Futurist, Strategist and acknowledged Boomer authority, PJ’s extensive research and multi-faceted contributions ensure her catalyzing speeches bring the dynamic impact of Baby Boomers and their families into focus for organizations, professionals and consumers alike. Author of 6 books and more than 1600 published articles, PJ’s wide-ranging knowledge of relevant emerging trends reinforces her ability for "box-free" thinking.
An internationally-recognized expert on Cross-Generation Collaboration and "Unretirement" (as PJ refers to the new retirement), PJ’s early contributions include developing the first self-directed future planning course linked to a television series, and writing the definitive book on an overlooked unretirement essential—home equity management. PJ understands the far-reaching significance and sees the long-ranging impact of the decades-long, active, involved unretirement that lies ahead for Boomers and their families. Her earlier career as an environmental scientist contributes to PJ’s unique age-free, borderless view of North America and of the future. Frequently quoted in the media, PJ launches The Forward Thinking Essentials series in 2008.
As The Catalyst, PJ offers box-free, age-free Client Retention and Advanced Education Services to the organizations and professionals that aim to define and deliver Boomers’ choices. PJ is a thought-provoking strategic speaker with more than 8000 hours in front of audiences. Her compelling delivery of innovative, relevant, practical suggestions on leaving "the box" behind inspires audiences to embrace box-free, age-free Forward Thinking—a talent she demonstrates consistently.
"PJ was great—very eloquent and inspirational, warm and humorous."
—CEO, Software Developer
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Professional Member—
- National Speakers Association
- International Federation for Professional Speakers
- Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
- Women in Film and Television
- World Future Society
