How to Understand and Plan for the New Retirement

Dr. Prudy Gourguechon, Principal of Invantage Advising, a niche consulting firm, advises leaders in business, investing and organizations. Using her expertise from over three decades as a practicing psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and organizational leader, she helps client overcome obstacles, make optimal decisions and craft effective strategy by providing insight into the complex underlying individual and group psychological forces that affect critical decisions and transitions. Past President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, she has been widely quoted as an expert in the press, appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic among many other media outlets. She has also been interviewed on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and CNN’s Smerconish shows. A regular contributor to Forbes.com, she writes about the psychology of business and leadership.

Dr. Gourguechon is a 1983 alumna of Northwestern’s Graduate Medical Education Program where she completed her residency in Psychiatry.

She is currently working on a book entitled “Starting Older: Understanding and Making the Most of a New Life Phase.” To learn more about her work or to contact her, visit her website at www.invantageadvising.com.