Speaking & Keynotes
Inspiring Audiences to Add Life to Their Years, Not Just Years to Their Life
People are living longer than ever before, yet many are unprepared for the opportunities and challenges that come with those additional years.
The question is no longer simply how long we will live. The question is how well we will live.
As a Gerontologist, speaker, and aging advocate with more than 35 years of experience in health and senior care, I help audiences rethink aging, challenge outdated assumptions, and discover practical strategies for creating a healthier, more purposeful, and fulfilling future.
Through engaging keynotes and interactive workshops, participants leave inspired, informed, and equipped with actionable tools they can apply immediately.
Signature Speaking Topics
Living Bold, Not Old™: A Blueprint for Aging Well
Most people spend decades preparing financially for retirement but very little time preparing for the life they want to live. This inspiring presentation challenges outdated beliefs about aging and empowers women to approach their next chapter with intention. Drawing on the Bold, Not Old™ framework of Reflection, Intention, Action, and Accountability, participants will explore how to create a future filled with vitality, resilience, purpose, connection, lifestyle, and legacy—the six essential pillars that support a meaningful and fulfilling life at any age.
Aging Is Inevitable. How We Age Is Not.
An informative and empowering look at aging that challenges common myths and explores what longevity research teaches us about creating a vibrant, meaningful, and resilient future.
Add Life to Your Years: The Healthspan Advantage
Discover the difference between lifespan and healthspan and learn practical strategies to support physical health, brain health, independence, and quality of life for years to come.
Designing Your Next Chapter
Retirement is not the finish line—it's the beginning of a new chapter. This empowering presentation helps women create a vision for a future filled with vitality, purpose, growth, and possibility.
Think Better, Age Better
The way we think about aging influences how we experience it. This eye-opening session explores the impact of age beliefs on health, confidence, and wellbeing while helping participants develop a more positive and empowering mindset for the years ahead.
What Audiences Gain
Participants leave with:
- A more positive and empowering perspective on aging
- Greater confidence in their ability to influence how they age
- Practical, evidence-based strategies to enhance vitality, resilience, and long-term well-being
- A deeper understanding of the lifestyle factors that support healthy aging and independence
- A renewed sense of purpose, possibility, and optimism about the future
- A clear vision for creating a meaningful and fulfilling next chapter
- Actionable steps they can implement immediately to support healthier aging
- Motivation to start making intentional choices today—not someday
Why This Message Matters
People often spend decades planning financially for retirement but very little time preparing for how they want to live during those years.
Yet the choices we make today influence our future health, independence, relationships, purpose, and quality of life.
My mission is to help audiences move beyond fear, challenge outdated beliefs about aging, and proactively create a future worth looking forward to.
Because aging is inevitable. How we age is not.
Ready to Inspire Your Audience?
Available for keynote presentations, conferences, leadership events, employee wellness programs, women's groups, professional associations, caregiver conferences, retreats, and customized workshops.
Let's create a program that leaves your audience informed, inspired, and ready to take action.
Praise
"April's energy, humor and deep expertise made her keynote one of the highlights of our conference. She leaves audiences both inspired and equipped to take action."
"April is inspiring and presents the information in a way that encourages a new understanding of the aging process."
"Her workshop will impact my personal practice helping me to be more aware of negative views on aging and help to promote a culture of acceptance and appreciation of the entire lifespan."
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Key Note Speaker @COA Forum on Aging
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2024 Conference Dates:
March 5 & 6, 2024
Location:
Sharonville Convention Center
11355 Chester Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45246-4002
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