Our Team

Kathryn Severns Avery

Kathryn created What’s Next for Boomers? to provide coaching, classes, ideas, information, and inspiration for boomers making the transition from working to not working and beyond.

After her husband, Chris, struggled during the first years of his retirement Kathryn quickly recognized many boomers are unaware of and unprepared for what comes next. She is a nationally recognized retirement expert, an author, and a retirement readiness coach. Her book Your Countdown to Retirement offers excellent advice on the non-financial aspects of retirement planning.

Christopher Avery

After retiring, Chris’s struggles with reinventing himself became the inspiration for Kathryn’s book and for the What’s Next for Boomers? business. Chris now spends time manning the What’s Next for Boomers? Life Planning Center. He organizes and facilitates discussion groups, coaches retirees and those planning their retirement, and is writing his first book – Mindful Graciousness.

Dr. Rachelle Disbennett-Lee

As Kathryn’s business and life coach, Rachelle watched the development of both Your Countdown to Retirement and What’s Next for Boomers. Having experienced many of the same life issues as Kathryn and Chris when her husband retired, Rachelle recognized the need for a coaching program for boomers facing retirement. Her background as an international life coach and her academic credentials (PhD in Applied Management and Decision Sciences) made her the perfect person to collaborated with Kathryn to create the Your Countdown to Retirement coaching programs and to train and certify our retirement readiness coaches.