Make Retirement the Best Time of Your Life with Bette Gardner

Ready to transform your retirement into an exciting new chapter? If so, listen to Bette Gardner as she shares her transition from a high-paced professional life to a fulfilling period focused on family, hobbies, and volunteerism. Discover how to find joy, purpose, and adventure by tuning into this conversation. 

 

Key takeaways to listen for

• The impact of entering a new life phase and scaling back professional commitments
• How to prioritize family while managing a successful career
• Insights into the creation and impact of the "Friday Night at the ER" simulation
• Benefits of experiential learning and team collaboration in organizations
• Why you should remember the little things in life and work

 

Resources

• Friday Night at the ER

 

About Bette Gardner

Bette founded Breakthrough Learning in 1994 to offer leadership coaching, management consulting, and business development services. Her interest in systems thinking led her to create innovative tools for managing complex systems, including the flagship product, Friday Night at the ER. This tool emerged from a consulting engagement at an urban hospital and trauma center.

 

Bette developed computer-based learning and decision support tools throughout her career, including ‘management flight simulators.’ She collaborated with Peter Senge and Arthur Andersen on The Fifth Discipline-Interactive, and with High-Performance Systems (now isee systems) on simulations for population health management.

 

Bette continues to support customers and projects as a senior educator and partners with academic and business leaders to integrate systems thinking into routine work and communities. She holds a degree in psychology from Boston University.

 

Connect with Bette 

• Website: Breakthrough Learning
• LinkedIn: Bette Gardner

 

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