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 Coaching in the Third Quarter
 

At age 57, after being a business CEO for thirty years, Richard L. Haid, Ph.D.,  found himself sensing that there was another chapter ahead in his life. He then "fired" himself, was admitted to the Union Institute and University and created his own customized adult development doctoral study program. Dick received his doctoral degree and his Medicare card within two years of each other.  Currently, he is an Adult Mentor for  business owners, executives and professional clients who are exploring or are in the process of making life and career transitions.  He also leads seminars, workshops, teaches at Chautauqua Institution, and co-hosts teleclasses and  makes presentations for business and professional conferences.  He is the co-developer of the Third Quarter of Life Card Sorts and the Life Guide. He serves as a mentor/adjunct faculty member for Doctoral of Ministry students of the United Theological Seminary and is a Professional Member of the World Future Society.  Here's his story:

A Personal Journey

"I used to be an insurance agent and financial planner, but my client’s lives became much more important to me than was their money. Money couldn’t buy all that they wanted. Many were captives of their money and possessions. Some had far more money than they would ever need, but they couldn’t create dreams of a better world that could be empowered by their wealth and leadership. They had been holding onto their money and their lives and their current ways of living for too long.

"Then I had a question of meaning in my life, as Peggy Lee sings in her song, "Is That All There Is?" Although I had received awards for the "outstanding this or that" in my business and community life, the question that kept coming up was "Is there something more in my life" in which I could use the unique gifts that I suspected I had? Was there something more calling me? I had the same wife, children, and home, but there had been a shift within me and I was in a career transition. To test the waters, once a week, five-month part-time internship was arranged with an outplacement firm where I found I could help its clients discover their golden nuggets.

"To follow my 'calling' I then fired myself by selling my 115 year-old business and set off to invent a new chapter in my life. I experienced a sense of loss because I was no longer a president, missed my co-workers, didn’t have an office, and I hadn’t typed in over 30 years. I also experienced a faith journey as spiritual development. I started leading pre-retirement planning workshops, which were more about the participants’ lives than their money and possessions. I found that the participants planned to rearrange their lives, but they didn’t plan to expand them. but I wanted them to have more because I know that later in life most people have the capacity to achieve more satisfying lives than they believe they can.

"I had a thirst for new learning and to integrate my past learning. Twenty years earlier I had considered a Ph.D. program with the Union Institute. I was not ready then, but now I had experience and the maturity to design my own program in adult development, which emphasized the Third Quarter. My doctoral research about family business owners stepping down from their businesses has become a book, There is Life After Family Business. . I received my doctoral degree and my Medicare card within two years of each other.

"I received my coaching training has been through the Hudson Institute, Coach University, and the International Coach Federation (ICF). I was recently re-certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the ICF having been part of the first group of coaches it certified. The ICF’s certification process, using rigorous standards, is based on training, experience, the coach’s contributions to the field, and client evaluations. I call myself an Adult Mentor/Coach and emphasize the mentor aspect because my clients understand that term better than they do "coach." The terms can be used interchangeably, however. professional coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.

"Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance the quality of their lives. The use of coaching has greatly increased the past several years, and many businesses now make coaches available for their executives and employees. Many other persons, acting individually, will engage coaches to improve their lives and careers in some defined way. Because of my interest in the Third Quarter, I have developed a niche with persons who want to enter or are in their Third Quarter. These clients are business owners, executives, and professionals. Because I have stepped down from a business and developed a new life myself, my clients find this reassuring because I have made this journey myself. I meet perspective clients in the workshops I lead and the classes I teach and from referrals. I do in-person assessment with them to start the process. Many of my clients live far from me and we have weekly telephone meetings with occasional in-person visits. Clients have wonderful experiences as they create new future.

"I have developed deeper and more appreciative relationships with my wife, family, friends, colleagues, and with myself. My spiritual development is accelerating as I mentor Doctor of Ministry students to help these senior pastors become spiritual coaches for their congregations. I am also the learner as I learn from my students as well as people that I meet at conferences and tele-discussions. And I am discovering even more of my gifts. I have a Third-Quarter life which is much more abundant than I could have imagined. For me, this is the very best time of life." 

Contact Dick Haid at: dickhaid@adultmentor.com, 513-868-1488.  His website is www.adultmentor.com                   

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