human-centred retirement planning™

educated retirement decisions 

for psychological and social wellbeing

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Dr San

Psychosocial Retirement Educator
Expert Guidance with Dr San

Education is power. Dr San blends academic research, insight and trusted practical wisdom – borne of a lifetime’s experience of success across a range of different sectors.

Human-Centred Retirement Planning

Human-centred planning is the yin to financial planning yang. Money funds lifestyle but can’t buy quality of life. Dr San upskills in mental-emotional-social retirement wellbeing.

Empowering Workforce Planning

Australia is awash with the ‘Silver Tsunami’. Dr San works with business to sustain piplelines, reduce recruitment costs, and boost enterprise capability across the organisation.

Customised for Individuals and Business

readysetretirement psychosocial planning® offers a range of customised services. These include training, workshops, seminars, 1:1 and group coaching, consulting and presenting.

Dr San

People say Dr San is a people person, a businessperson, and a nerd. With a PhD in Business, MBA specialising in HR, and qualifications in teaching and coaching, Dr San brings a powerful blend of expertise and humanity to specialist retirement education. Her decades of people, strategic and operational leadership, across educational, social and commercial sectors, continues to help individuals and business to thrive.

Dr Sandra Walden Pearson (PhD); Master of Business Administration (MBA);  Bachelor of Arts Diploma of Education (BA Dip Ed); Certified Professional Retirement Coach; Certified Associate Meta Coach; Certified Resilience Coach; High Adversity Resilience (HART) Coach; Resilience First Aid (RFA) Responder; Accredited Mental Health First Aider (MHFA); Accredited MHFA in the Workplace; Accredited Cinergy Conflict Coach.

For Individuals

We spend our working life actively financial planning for retirement. We spend our imagined life going on one long retirement honeymoon.

Retirement check! Retirement has a recognised dark side. Psychosocial risks include sense of loss – direction, identity, purpose, and social connection.

Retirement education helps informed decision making. Informed decision making helps manage risks and supports living the quality of life we imagined.

Get ready and set for when the time is truly right. Get reset when retirement is souring. We spend our working life deserving of a quality of life that’s sweet.

For Business

Central to astute workforce planning is pipeline sustainability. Mastery exits at recruitment, productivity, culture and morale costs – at future ready expense.

Education is power. Upskilled awareness of recognised psychosocial retirement risks enables informed preparation, planning and timing decisions.

Psychosocial retirement wellbeing takes skill based on two key inputs: informed planning and time. Time to develop plans and plan implementation, timed right.

Psychosocial retirement planning leverages informed, educated decision making to help drive productive resilience and wellbeing in the workplace, and beyond.

Testimonials

★★★★★

Hon Warren Entsch. Former Federal Member for the Seat of Leichhardt

Financial planning for retirement is well known. I hadn’t heard about psychosocial education, focused on human-centred retirement planning – in 30 years of politics! My retirement from politics plan coincided with the May 2025 Federal elections. I believed I had it sorted.

In talking with Dr San I realised the critical need to plan for the human side of retirement. 

Retirement education truly opened my eyes. I become sharply aware of impending gains, losses, and impacts. Purpose, passions and priorities increasingly became crystal clear.

As a result, I’ve gained. I act with greater intention, confidence and sense of wellbeing.

With hand on heart, I can honestly say that engaging Dr San has been life changing.

I now know and continue to do what it takes to make the retirement dream my reality.

In Dr San I have complete trust – and cannot recommend more highly.