Dick Bolles and Richard Leider are among the best known life-work planning coaches in the country.

Bolles is the author of the best selling “What Color is Your Parachute” series…. Leider is a best-selling author in his own right, with 30 years of experience coaching people to live and work with a sense of purpose. Leider also is the chairman of The Inventure Group, which consults with large corporations on executive development and life planning.

Leider has just published a new book, Something to Live For: Finding your way in the second half of life.” The forward was written by Dick Bolles. The two came to Chicago together recently to conduct a two-day life-planning seminar. The event was sponsored by the Crossroads Center and Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative in cooperation with the MetLife Mature Market Institute.

I had a chance to sit down with them while they were in town to talk about their careers, the nature of life transition, and how boomers plan to do retirement differently. Here’s an edited video of that session from RetirementRevised, the companion site of my newspaper column:

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