Corinne Auman

How language, assumptions, and bias are quietly shaping the lives of millions — and what we can do about it.

Ageism is the last socially acceptable prejudice in America. It lives in birthday cards, hiring decisions, healthcare conversations, and the way we talk to — and about — our elders. In this compelling and often surprising talk, Dr. Corinne Auman challenges audiences to examine their own assumptions about aging, longevity, and what it means to live well at every stage of life. Drawing on two decades of frontline care management experience and her landmark Keenagers™ framework, she makes the case that the stories we tell about getting older are not just wrong — they're dangerous. And she offers a better story.

Attendee Results

• Identify unconscious ageist assumptions that affect personal and professional decisions
• Understand how cultural narratives about aging shape health outcomes and quality of life
• Discover the Keenagers™ framework for building a more expansive, affirming view of later life
• Leave with language tools to shift conversations in families, workplaces, and communities
• Develop a personal commitment to advocacy and narrative change in their sphere of influence

A roadmap for adult children managing the unexpected complexity of loving someone through later life.

No one hands you a manual when a parent starts needing more help. Suddenly you're managing medical appointments, financial decisions, family disagreements, and your own grief — all while trying to show up for your job and your kids. Dr. Auman has guided hundreds of families through exactly this terrain. In this warm, practical, and deeply human talk, she maps the caregiving journey with clarity and compassion — cutting through the overwhelm to reveal what decisions actually matter, what resources exist that most families never find, and how to advocate effectively for someone you love without burning out in the process.

Attendee Results

• Understand the stages of the caregiving journey and what typically triggers each transition
• Learn how to evaluate care options, from in-home support to memory care communities
• Gain a practical framework for holding difficult family conversations about care and finances
• Discover the role of a professional care manager and when to bring one in
• Identify personal caregiver warning signs and develop a sustainable self-care strategy

Why organizations that invest in older workers — and those who care for aging loved ones — will lead the next decade.

The workforce is aging. So are the parents of your employees. And yet most organizations have no strategy for either reality. The result: experienced workers exit early, caregivers quietly burn out and disengage, and institutional knowledge walks out the door every time. Dr. Auman brings a rare perspective to this conversation — part organizational insight, part clinical expertise in aging. She helps HR leaders, executives, and team managers see older workers and caregiver employees not as liabilities, but as the strategic assets they are — and shows them how to build cultures where everyone across the age spectrum can contribute at their best.

Attendee Results

• Understand the business case for age-inclusive hiring, retention, and team design
• Learn how to identify and support "sandwich generation" employees before they hit a breaking point
• Explore specific policies and benefits that signal commitment to multi-generational workforce health
• Gain tools for mentorship and knowledge transfer across generational divides
• Develop a practical roadmap to age-inclusive culture that strengthens recruitment and retention

What the most vital, purposeful older adults do differently — and how you can start now.

What does it actually look like to age well? Not just physically — but purposefully, joyfully, with a sense that the best chapters may still be ahead? Dr. Auman has spent over two decades studying this question up close, watching both ends of the spectrum: people who wither and people who flourish. The difference, she has found, is rarely about health or wealth. It's about mindset, meaning, and the stories people tell themselves about who they still get to become. In this inspiring keynote, she brings those stories to life — and invites every audience member to claim their own.

Attendee Results

• Understand the psychological and social factors that predict flourishing in later life
• Challenge internalized beliefs about aging that may already be limiting your potential
• Discover the five hallmarks of a Keenager and how to cultivate them deliberately
• Identify the next meaningful chapter you want to write — and what's been stopping you
• Leave with a personal vitality plan rooted in purpose, connection, and continued growth

For financial advisors, wealth managers, and their clients who want to plan for more than retirement — they want to plan for living.

Most retirement plans are financially sound — and humanly incomplete. They account for assets, distributions, and tax strategy. What they rarely account for is meaning, purpose, health decisions, family dynamics, and the very real possibility that clients will live far longer than they expect — in circumstances neither they nor their advisor has imagined. Dr. Auman bridges the clinical and the financial in this uniquely valuable talk designed for advisors, wealth managers, and their clients. She doesn't replace the numbers. She gives them a life to stand behind — and helps clients and advisors ask the questions that make planning truly complete.

Attendee Results

• Understand the non-financial factors most predictive of a client's quality of life in later years
• Learn how to open conversations about care preferences, family roles, and legacy with clients
• Explore how a care management mindset can differentiate an advisory practice and deepen trust
• Gain a framework for longevity planning that integrates health, housing, and life purpose alongside wealth
• Walk away with conversation tools to help clients move from financial preparedness to genuine life readiness