The Hudson Institute, in partnership with MEA presents...
The Bonus Round:
Crafting a Meaningful Post-Work Chapter
Jun 23 - Jun 28, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Pam McLean, Joy Leach, Tom Pollack, Lee Johnson
Financial aid is available. Apply Here.
What Happens When Your Work Is No Longer the Centrepiece of Your Life?
When it comes to preparing for your post-work life, almost all of the focus in the retirement industry is on the finances.
Of course, taking care of your financial future is important… but what about everything else that matters in life?
How are you planning to find meaning and purpose in your post-work chapter? Where will you find your joy? How will you make a difference and contribute to the world around you?
And who exactly are you when your work identity no longer defines you?
In this workshop co-facilitated with Pam McLean and the Hudson Institute of Coaching’s Sage Faculty, you will go on a personal journey through your past experience, wisdom, and imagination to discover what matters most and chart your path forward to happiness and fulfillment in your “bonus round” of life.
What You’ll Gain
Through the Hudson Sage Faculty’s guided self-exploration and experiential activities, you will:
By the end of your five days with us, you will have a clear plan with concrete and inspirational ideas for the chapter ahead – and will be eager and excited to put your plan into action and make your vision a reality.
Meet Your Faculty
Pam McLean
Co-founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of The Hudson Institute of Coaching
Author | Clinical Psychologist | Master Coach
Pamela McLean, PhD, is Chief Knowledge Officer and Co-Founder of The Hudson Institute of Coaching, one of the leading coach training programs in the US for over 35 years, providing services to organizations around the globe. She has more than four decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and leader in the field of coaching and is author of several books, including LifeForward: Charting the Journey Ahead, on transition and change in our adult lives.
She is an expert on the natural cycles of change we go through during the ups and downs of our lives and what we can do to understand the cycles and maximize our ability to ride the waves of change with more ease.
Pam has served on Harvard’s JFK Women’s Leadership Board, the faculty of Saybrook University in San Francisco, California, the Editorial Board of IJCO, and LikeMinded in San Francisco. She is a frequent key presenter on the use of self and Self As Coach: going deeper to do our best work.
This workshop is for you if...
You’re a career professional or entrepreneur who’s transitioning out of a career or business
Work is no longer the dominant force in your life and you’re wondering what’s next
You’re starting to ask the big questions about who you want to be and what you want to do in your next chapter
You feel like there’s still so much you can offer the world and are looking for a new creative outlet or your next “big thing”
You have unlived dreams you’ve often thought about exploring but have never had the opportunity to pursue
You’re ready to open your mind to possibility and design a post-work chapter that delights and fulfills you
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
Meet Your MEA Facilitators
These powerful sessions will be conducted by Pam McLean and the seasoned Hudson’s Sage and MEA Faculty members listed below:
Joy Leach
Guest Faculty
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Joy Leach, MS, MCC, has over 30 years of experience as an organizational consultant, trainer, coach, and author. She coaches leaders at the highest levels in companies to support the development and productivity of their organizations. She has trained thousands of professionals to enhance their skills and increase their work potential.
Joy leads large-scale consulting projects and training initiatives to facilitate organizational effectiveness and transformation. While she specializes in executive coaching and leadership coaching, Joy also coaches in personal/professional balance, presentation skills coaching, and career transition coaching. She has vast experience in designing and developing programs for diversity, management skills, presentation skills, customer service and team communication and collaboration.
Serving as a seasoned coach and faculty member in the Hudson Institute’s Coach Certification Program as well as a facilitator in the LifeForward Programs, Joy is also a lead facilitator in Hudson’s ‘Spot Coaching for Managers’ program inside organizations.
Joy is the co-author of Personal Power: Today’s Guide for the Working Woman, and, A Practical Guide to Working with Diversity.
Joy received her Master of Science degree from the University of Buffalo and has been certified in MBTI, Organization Development from Georgetown University. She is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.
Tom Pollack
Guest Faculty
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Tom Pollack, PCC, has been coaching individuals through significant life transitions and other issues for over a decade. He has worked with partners in professional organizations and high-level executives at several major corporations on developing new leadership skills, advancing their personal growth, and navigating life transitions. Since 2002, Tom has served as a facilitator of Hudson’s popular LifeForward program as well as the ThirdLaunch and Bold Living After Work programs, helping participants to actively realign their direction and effort to be congruent with their current values, interests, and purpose.
Tom has broad experience in the legal domain spanning the past thirty-five years. His law background and years of experience combined with his coaching skills provide the ingredients for helping high-profile individuals re-examine their goals for a challenging future. Tom received a B.A. from Brown University in 1965 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1968, where he served as the Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review. He was an adjunct professor of federal criminal trial practice at Loyola University School of Law and lectured extensively on various topics of federal criminal practice. Before retiring from his law firm in 2008, Tom spent most of his professional career as a partner at Irell & Manella LLP, where he specialized in white-collar criminal defense.
Lee Johnson
Land, Livestock, and Mindfulness
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Lee likes to say that he’s as ordinary as dirt but as complex as soil. He’s resident “cowboy sage” at our campus in Santa Fe, where his love for the simple yet complex hum of nature has led him to work in holistic land management. As steward of our four-square mile regenerative ranch, Lee translates nature’s teachings into simple insights that encourage us to tune into the inner and outer landscape of the world around us.
You will appreciate the opportunity to be in his presence and slow down, listen to nature, and gather around the campfire of shared understanding.
Pivot into the wild, imaginative, and experimental – and find new reverence for this potent new chapter of your life.
When something important drops out of our lives, we enter into a liminal space where we often experience a kind of grieving, followed by a searching, a struggling – and then a breakthrough.
Many of us are quite uncomfortable in this liminal space, and so we remain stuck rather than progress toward the breakthrough that allows us to embrace our next stage with curiousity, openness, and enthusiasm.
During your time with us, you will reconnect with your inner self and your sense of purpose and build a blueprint for your legacy that will points your way forward and smooths your journey to the life you want to experience.
