Crafting Your Next Chapter
Crafting Your Next Chapter is a program for accomplished individuals in mid-to-late career who want to imagine the next chapter in their professional and personal lives, and answer the question: What comes next and how do I get there?
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Reframe, Revitalize, Reinvent
The latter part of one’s career for highly motivated individuals can be a time of stress and uncertainty about the path forward. But it can also offer a unique opportunity to reflect on what matters, to reimagine the possibilities, and to more fully realize one’s promise and potential for a flourishing future. Incorporating the latest findings of lifespan development and positive psychology, this intimate online program provides in-depth support for successfully and proactively navigating what's next.
Engage in Dialogue and Reflection
Take stock of your values, experiences, and goals through reflection and dialogue as part of a high trust community of peers. With a deepened understanding of yourself and what matters, explore the possibilities for your next chapter, building on your unique strengths and resources.
Chart Your Course
Take action towards a meaningful and fulfilling future. Use the tools and resources gained through this course to forge the right path for yourself and a plan for sustained progress.
The UChicago Distinction
The course design reflects the University of Chicago’s uniquely powerful educational approach - a commitment to reflection and collective inquiry in the service of enabling individuals to live more meaningful, connected, and fulfilling lives. The course provides the resources, tools, and frameworks to support your progress, not just in the classroom, but in practical application to your life and work. You will have the opportunity to learn not just from your instructors, but from a distinguished group of peers, both in small peer to peer support groups as well as in interactive classroom dialogues.
Instructors
Russ Eisenstat
Executive Coach and Co-founder of Rising Path Partners
In a career spanning four decades, Russ has pioneered new practices and perspectives that enable leaders to realize their highest aspirations for contribution, meaning and satisfaction for themselves, and those they lead. He has served as a coach and catalytic thought partner to senior leaders across a wide range of organizations in business and the social sector.
Russ is a co-founder of Rising Path Partners, whose mission is to support individuals in successfully navigating major transitions in their work and lives. After receiving his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale, Russ spent six years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School in the leadership and organizational behavior area. He served as the founding Executive Director of the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance, as well as the founding President of TruePoint, a mission driven organizational consulting firm. He has authored numerous pathbreaking books and articles on leadership and change including: Higher Ambition; How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, and The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal.
Stephanie Eisenstat
Executive Coach, Physician Educator, and Co-founder of Rising Path Partners
As a certified coach, practicing clinician and physician educator, Stephanie has helped individuals and groups enhance their effectiveness and impact for over 30 years. She has helped a wide range of leaders: navigate their way through key work-life transitions; use their voice, talents, and strengths to create win-win solutions to complex problems and translate vision into action in times of stress and transition.
Stephanie is a co-founder of Rising Path Partners, whose mission is to support individuals in successfully navigating major transitions in their work and lives. She is also a practicing internist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, at the Harvard Medical School. She has been an academic leader in Women’s Health, chronic care management and interdisciplinary care redesign and is the author of a number of groundbreaking books and articles including The Primary Care of Women and The Harvard Guide to Women’s Health.
The Craft Your Next Chapter course is open to professionals in mid to late career who are looking to reflect and gain powerful strategies and meaningful insights to activate their next chapter of a fulfilling life.
Applications are now open and the final deadline for submission is August 22, 2023.
To apply, please click here, then fill out and submit the application form.
The course provides the resources, tools, and frameworks to support your progress, not just in the classroom, but in practical application to your life and work. In addition to learning from your eminent instructors, you will learn from and with a talented group of peers, both in small peer to peer support groups as well as in interactive plenary sessions.
The program’s three sections provide a clear roadmap for participants to follow in successfully crafting their next chapter:
REFRAME
Test the waters and expand the possibilities.
- Reach out and learn
- Explore
- Experiment
REVITALIZE
Re-imagine and re-energize your current work and life.
- Get clear on what matters
- Clear the underbrush of the less meaningful/energizing
- Focus on what's most important
- Renegotiate current roles and commitments
- Build new habits and mindsets
REINVENT
Architect your future life and work.
- Set your vision
- Draft a plan
- Make pivotal choices about work and life
- Stay the course
The class will meet every other Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CT from September 19 to December 12, with a closing session held on December 19. Each participant will have the option to arrange one individual coaching session with the instructors as part of the program, which will occur at a mutually agreeable time.
All sessions will be hosted in the Central Time Zone via Zoom.
Program Outline
The program has a fee of $2,995 for selected members.
If you would like to be considered for scholarship support to cover part of the cost, please indicate that need in your seminar application.
The University of Chicago Graham School is pleased to partner with Rising Path Partners to offer Crafting Your Next Chapter for mid to late career business executives and professionals.