Why is this called Career Capstone?

We believe your entire life is meant to be energizing, meaningful, and fulfilling. Sadly, many retirements aren’t. A life filled with vacations, golf, and hanging out may sound nice, but it often ends up feeling lonely, empty, and purposeless.

What if your retirement was much more like the capstone of your career, the crowning achievement of a life well lived? What if you experienced even more meaning, connection, and contribution during this stage of your life than ever before, while also respecting the ways your life will change?

Every life could work toward a Capstone — yours too.

How is this different from retirement planning like I’d get from my financial advisor?

Although financial readiness is one of Career Capstone’s 11 focus areas, there’s far more to your retirement stage of life than just money. That’s why you’ll get reintroduced to your True Self and your Best Work, and it’s why you’ll get guidance on how to plan and personalize several other important areas of your retired life (from living arrangements to legal documents, and from new kinds of relationships to meaningful ways of contributing).

I’m pretty busy. How much time is this going to take?

Each of the 11 weekly one-on-one sessions will last 60 minutes. The pre-work for each session includes a 60-minute video and a set of personalization exercises. The exercises are meant to create real-time progress but will often suggest additional work for you to return to. As a result, you may find yourself taking only 15 minutes on exercises each week, or you may plan to spend longer: the choice is yours.

This means you should expect to spend a total of 2 1/2 hours each week of the Career Capstone program. Think of it as a replacement for a few episodes of your favorite show each week, or instead of an evening out.

Are these sessions in-person? Or virtual?

It depends on whether a Guide lives in your local area, and on how your Guide prefers to meet. When in-person options are available, you’ll meet with your Guide at a neutral location or a location of your choosing. At other times, only virtual options are available: in that case, sessions will happen over Zoom.

How many people have been through this program?

This is a brand-new program from Vocationality, but it’s based on two substantial kinds of experience that has helped many people:

1. Vocationality itself, which has helped hundreds of people at other points in their career to make personalized plans and progress, based on discoveries about their True Self and their Best Work. Dr. Will Gray, the founder of Vocationality, is one of the key leaders for this program. He helped to design the program and is a co-leader of each pre-work video.

2. Alan Bunn is the program’s other co-designer and co-leader. He brings 20 years of experience advising adults and their families through all of the topics covered in this program. He has also worked with well over a hundred individuals in this way.

Why does Career Capstone cost what it does?

We’re not aware of any other whole-life-oriented retirement programs like Career Capstone — a pathway to design your own personalized, True Self retirement.

That uniqueness means we could charge whatever we wanted.

Our desire, however, is to make Career Capstone as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. That’s because our desire at Vocationality is to work toward a world where it’s normal for careers to be aligned with True Self and Best Work … and that will take a lot of people!

So we’ve tried to keep our prices as reasonable as possible, while still honoring our extraordinary Guides and the decade+ of work we’ve put into our one-of-a-kind pathways.

Our hope is that the value of Career Capstone is at least twice what it costs, and ideally, 10 times the cost, in what it unlocks for your future.