One.
Identity
Who you are now, separate from the title you used to wear.
The 8-Week Encore
There's another chapter — you just haven't named it yet.
For people in the second half of a long career, asking what comes next. Encore Career Lab is the structure that helps you answer it — without choosing between work, meaning, and a life that's actually yours.
- Members so far
- 150+
- Founder's first career
- 30+ years
- Founded in
- Atlanta, 2023
- A sub-track for
- Senior officers
Five Quiet Questions
The questions you've started to feel — even before you've said them out loud.
Most people in this transition haven't been asked these questions in any structured way. They surface anyway, usually at three in the morning.
- One. What would you do if you weren't trying to match what you already built?
- Two. What kind of work would feel like more, not less?
- Three. How much of the next ten years could you spend on what actually matters?
- Four. What would your network help you build, if you asked them?
- Five. What if the second act could be more alive than the first?
The Framework
The 4-Pillar Encore Method.
Your next chapter stands on four pillars. We sequence them across eight weeks, with a small cohort of people at the same inflection point. Build all four and you have a chapter that compounds — not a hobby that fades.
Two.
Purpose
What you'd happily do on a Tuesday morning when nobody is asking.
Three.
Income
The shape of your next-chapter economics, designed for the life you want.
Four.
Network
The people you've already met, organized to send you what's next.
Built by people who've lived it
The team has navigated this transition themselves.
Encore Career Lab was founded in 2023 by Jack Calhoun after he grew his Atlanta wealth-management firm from $50M to $1.5B+ in assets under management and exited in 2015 — only to discover that the next chapter was more disorienting than he'd been told to expect. The team since then has grown to include a longtime executive coach, a retired Major General of the U.S. Marine Corps who leads the program's sub-track for senior officers, and a multi-exit C-level operator. People who've sat in the same room you're sitting in right now.
Most of the wealth-management industry is focused on the financial mechanics. Almost nobody is helping people answer the human question of what makes the next chapter actually work. Jack Calhoun, Founder
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The next chapter is yours to design.
Eight weeks. Four pillars. A small cohort of people at the same inflection point. The frameworks that have helped 150+ people build their next chapter on purpose — not by accident.
A thirty-minute conversation. Not a sales call.