Jan Cullinane

Jan Cullinane is a best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and recognized retirement expert. A former community college science and health psychology instructor, Cullinane takes a holistic approach to retirement planning, blending financial knowledge with insights into well-being, purpose, and lifestyle. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Maryland and is ABD from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Cullinane's books include "The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life," "The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement," and "Retire Happy!" "The New Retirement" reached the number two rank on both Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com, and was selected as a book club choice by The Washington Post's The Color of Money columnist Michelle Singletary. The revised Third Edition of "The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life" offers an organized and comprehensive treatment of retirement planning, featuring surveys, questionnaires, and worksheets to help readers understand and apply the critical steps affecting retirement.

"The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement" received an Apex Award for Publication Excellence, a Mature Media Award, and a Living Now Book Award, including a Silver Living Now Book Award in the Mature Living/Aging category. Cullinane's work is recognized for making complex retirement topics accessible and actionable for a broad audience.

Cullinane is the Healthy Living columnist for Ideal Living magazine and is frequently featured on TV, radio, and in magazines and newspapers. Her clients include Ford Motor Company, Deloitte, the Federal Government, In-N-Out Burger, the Smithsonian Institution, Wells Fargo Advisors, AARP, and RPI Media. She is also a regular contributor to U.S. News and several other publications, sharing her expertise on retirement planning with readers nationwide.

As a retirement expert, Cullinane addresses topics such as behavioral finance and the psychological dimensions of life after work, making her a versatile voice on the keynote stage. She encourages audiences to view retirement as an opportunity for reinvention, urging people to "reinvent yourself and use retirement as an opportunity," framing it as "168 hours a week" of possibility that requires structure, purpose, and intentionality.