"Canada's #1 Retirement Transitions Coach"

Nigel Brown spent more than thirty years in the financial services industry working with those close to retirement. As Nigel explains, retirement planning is worth little unless we begin thinking deeply about the kinds of life we aspire to live. With this thought in mind he closed his financial practice to focus on the non-financial issues with clients.

Now, as Principal of Life Planning Matters™, he has taken a leadership role with other innovative thinkers and researchers in the life planning arena who are asking, “What will bring meaning and purpose into people’s lives once they have retired?”

In 1999, he started researching processes for those within thinking distance of retirement to help them transition from their primary careers and businesses into the second half of their lives.

The decision to retire is often emotional and traumatic. Divorcing oneself from a career results in a loss of identity and it is crucial that a new one be found – people need to re-invent themselves and this is where Life Planning Matters™ provides support that is so vital to the process.

A baby boomer himself, he has addressed many of these concerns personally as he designed and tracked his own life plan. He has completed more than 200 research interviews with a cross section of those close to and in retirement.

He coaches those who have enjoyed careers in senior management, entrepreneurs, family business people and a variety of others from commercial pilots to fire chiefs. He has coached advisors and other professionals in the retirement market in Canada and the United States in creating a new business model that encompasses the life planning philosophy.

Nigel is a registered retirement lifestyle consultant and coach. He delivers individual and group programs that equip participants with greater confidence to take the step in creating a new retirement lifestyle plan. He has spoken at conferences and special client events. He is the founder of My Retirement Concierge™, a multi-disciplinary retirement consulting group.

Nigel has been published in Personal Excellence, Forum Magazine, the Family Enterpriser, Experience and a number of internal and corporate newsletters. He is the publisher of Agequake, a newsletter focused on life planning literacy.

In 2006 he travelled with ten other men to Tanzania under the leadership of Richard Leider, Founder and Chairman of the Inventure Group. Richard’s organization is renown internationally for helping individuals put purpose to work in their personal and professional lives through the process of "inventuring."

In 1983 he co-founded The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada. This remains an important part of Nigel's legacy and life plan.

Nigel is an executive member of ICF Okanagan and lives with his wife Brenda and their two teenagers in Kelowna, British Columbia.