For 50s and 60s professionals nearing the end of their first career
You've had a thriving, successful professional career.
Now the question is: what comes next?
You've spent decades building expertise, relationships, and reputation. The phase that's coming is not the end of your contribution — it's the next form of it. Encore Career Lab is the 8-week program that helps successful professionals design their next chapter on purpose, with income, meaning, and structure built in from the start.
Book Your Encore Career Strategy CallThe questions you don't yet have answers to.
Most people approaching the end of their first career haven't been asked these questions out loud. They surface anyway:
- Who am I without my title, my team, my calendar?
- What gets me out of bed when "work" is no longer the answer?
- How do I keep my brain sharp, my relationships intact, my finances on track?
- What's the role of income in this next phase — and where does it come from?
- How do I matter, contribute, and stay relevant on my own terms?
- What happens to the network I spent 30 years building?
- What if "retirement" isn't actually what I want?
The Encore Career Lab program exists because no one was answering these questions for the people who'd already won at their first careers.
The framework
The 4-Pillar Encore Method.
Your encore career has to stand on four pillars. Miss any of them and the structure wobbles within a year. Build all four and you have a next chapter that compounds.
01
Identity
Who you are now that you're no longer your last title.
02
Purpose
The daily reason to engage that survives leaving the corner office.
03
Income
The economic shape that matches the lifestyle you actually want.
04
Network
The rolodex strategy that turns your prior career into your next chapter's lead source.
Built by operators who have lived this transition themselves.
150+
Successful professionals coached through the program to date
$1B+
In assets under management built by our founder's prior firm before sale
50+
Combined years of executive coaching, leadership, and operational experience on the team
Encore Career Lab was founded by Jack Calhoun after he sold his Atlanta wealth-management firm in 2015 and discovered that his industry — and the rest of the financial-planning world — had no framework for the human side of what comes next. The team includes a former COO certified as a Professional Retirement Coach (Tavi Meketon), a retired Major General of the U.S. Marine Corps leading our Next Mission program for senior military leaders (Bob Sofge), and a multi-exit C-level executive (Jimmy Dickey).
Meet the team →Your next chapter shouldn't be left to luck.
The 8-week Encore Career Lab program walks you through the four pillars on a structured timeline, with weekly coaching, a peer cohort of professionals at the same inflection point, and frameworks that have helped 150+ people build their next chapter on purpose.
Book Your Encore Career Strategy Call30-minute conversation. No pitch. You leave with a clearer picture either way.