What are you doing with your retirement? The final part of your life journey awaits. No one can give you the answers, but you have the assets within you to design an epic post-career life.
Throughout history and the Industrial Revolution, most people worked until death. In 1935, the United States adopted the Social Security Act, setting 65 as the standard retirement age. Times have changed; people can be active and healthy longer. After 90 years, I ask the right question and the answer is for those who want more.
Preferment® Life Platform program and the Preferment® workbook is the confluence of research and practical lessons about shifting through what matter most to you and implementing a lifestyle. You will proactively plan your preferment as an ascension to the highest rung on your achievement.
ladder, transforming the culmination of life into something that disrupts existing systems.
Preferment provides a modern format to build a well-considered new identity and multiple purpose. Individuals formulate a sustainable plan aligning doing with your retirement and personal values. I solve the dilemma millions are facing.
Preferment® refuses the premise that the final third of life is a wind-down.
It was during her four years at the Social Security Administration that she saw the gap no one was addressing: traditional retirement, a model designed in 1935 for factory workers who lived to 61, was failing the very women it should serve most. High-achieving professionals with decades of ambition still in the tank. Rather than accept the premise, she rejected it.
The result is Preferment®, a research-backed framework built on neuroscience, identity work, and sociological study that replaces retirement’s slow fade with a life designed on purpose. Preferment® doesn’t ask accomplished women to find a hobby. It arms them with a system for staying relevant, challenged, and consequential on their own terms.
Anne is the author of three books, including Cultivating Crime: The Dark Side of Legal Marijuana, a true-life legal thriller, and Savor Your Chocolate, which reimagines cacao as a savory ingredient, and Preferment® a modern alternative to retirement. She holds a patent for an innovative cacao processing technique, co-owns the internationally award-winning Pa'ani Farms in Hawaii, and runs the publishing imprint Cultivating Change Media.
Anne van Leynseele
Author, Speaker, Advocate for Social Change
Anne van Leynseele has never taken the expected path. She has carved five of her own. From Hollywood producer to Digital Media innovator, Communication strategist to Fortune 100 consultant, from Attorney Advisor in the Obama Administration to founding partner of one of the nation’s first cannabis law practices, Anne has spent three decades proving that reinvention is not a disruption but a discipline.
The Preferment Workbook: Your Interactive Blueprint for Transformation
Think data-driven insights meet the nostalgic charm of those grade school worksheets you actually looked forward to completing. Our companion workbook isn't just a complement to your classroom experience—it's your hands-on laboratory for reinvention.
Each bite-sized chapter is strategically designed to help you identify the hidden hurdles standing between you and your ideal post-career life. But here's where it gets powerful: we don't just diagnose the obstacles—we connect you to personalized solutions through compelling narrative stories that show real people creating extraordinary retirement lifestyles.
Pick up Anne's book Preferment® to dive deeper into the framework and start designing your next chapter with purpose: Get It on Amazon