Speaking

Why Event Organizers Book Harry

Harry’s message works because it does both things great speaking must do...

It moves people emotionally, and it gives them something useful to do next.

A keynote that inspires people — and leaves them with:

  • a more hopeful view of retirement

  • language for the identity shift retirement brings

  • practical reflection tools they can use immediately

  • a framework for building purpose, joy, and meaning in the years ahead

  • permission to stop seeing retirement as an ending and start seeing it as a life-altering opportunity

Harry speaks about retirement as much more than a financial checklist. He speaks about it as a human transition — one that deserves dignity, preparation, and possibility.

Perfect for Audiences

Navigating This Major Life Transition

Harry is an excellent fit for:

  • corporations supporting employees nearing retirement

  • HR, benefits and training/development teams

  • wealth-management and financial firms serving retirement-age clients

  • healthcare and medical organizations

  • professional associations

  • alumni, civic, and membership organizations

  • conference planners seeking a message that is inspirational, practical, and deeply relevant

Event organizers book Harry when they want to offer something more meaningful than retirement logistics alone. They book him when they want people to leave not just informed — but changed.

Dr. Harry Agress Jr. at a podium

Keynote Topics

Purpose

Redefining Relevance

Finding a new encouraging and life-affirming path forward with self-reflection and confidence.

  • Reclaim your purpose

  • Redefine your value

  • Trade doubt for direction

  • Build a meaningful next act

  • Contribute in new ways

  • Move forward confidently

Planning

The Missing Piece in Your Retirement Plan

How to conquer the emotional challenges and solutions of retirement using the Four Freedoms Formula. For those seeking help adjusting to the transition or considering early retirement.

  • Plan beyond the numbers

  • Face the emotional side

  • Tame retirement anxiety

  • Gain clarity for next steps

  • Replace fear with freedoms

  • Retire with intention

Relationships

The Significant Other - Different Journeys, Same Home.

Retirement doesn’t just change schedules, it changes relationships. Why do men and women respond so differently, and what makes the transition work?

  • Navigating as a couple

  • Understanding differences

  • Reset roles and routines

  • Communicate with clarity

  • Reduce friction at home

  • Build a shared next chapter

healthcare professionals

The Doctor Is Out — Now What?

Healthcare professionals are trained to save lives, not leave them behind. Here's the liberating path through the retirement dilemma.

  • Let go of the white coat

  • Answer the “now what?”

  • Rebuild identity after medicine

  • Find purpose beyond practice

  • Embrace a freer future

  • Create a life that fits

healthcare professionals

Getting Back to Your True Self

Physicians are trained to save lives, not leave them behind. Here's the liberating path through the retirement dilemma.

  • Let go of the white coat

  • Answer the “now what?”

  • Rebuild identity after medicine

  • Find purpose beyond practice

  • Embrace a freer future

  • Create a life that fits

For meeting hosts

Headshots & Downloadables

Portrait of Dr. Harry Agress Jr.
Portrait of Dr. Harry Agress Jr.
Portrait of Dr. Harry Agress Jr.

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Harry understands this transition Deeply.

he’s lived it — and written the book on it.

Harry Agress is a retired physician, speaker, photographer, and author of Next Years, Best Years - Taking Your Retirement to the Next Level.

After a long and successful medical career, he faced the same questions so many retirees face:

What now?

What still matters?

How do I build a life that feels meaningful when the career chapter ends?

Portrait of Dr. Harry Agress Jr.

That lived experience is what gives Harry’s message its uncommon power. He doesn’t speak at people. He speaks as someone who has walked through the uncertainty, reflected deeply on it, researched it, and turned it into a message that helps others move forward with more confidence.

His work blends personal story, research, humor, practical wisdom, and a deeply reassuring truth, as he strongly feels that retirement does not have to become smaller. It can become fuller.

Bring the Message Beyond

the Keynote

Harry’s speaking can be paired with bulk copies of Next Years, Best Years to extend the impact of the event.

The book gives attendees a way to continue reflecting, planning, and applying Harry’s message long after the talk is over.

Next Years Best Years

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