Welcome! If you are seeking help to lead, live, or age more consciously, you have come to the right place. This is the digital home of Dr Paul Ward, the consciousness whisperer.
I am a transformational leadership and life transitions coach and the host of inspiring conversation circles, guiding individuals who are committed to leading, living, and aging more consciously. Together, we explore the art of intentional living —awakening clarity, cultivating presence, and embracing the journey of becoming our most authentic selves at every stage of life.
Leading Consciously
Are you a business leader waking up in the middle of the night thinking about…
- A major personal or professional challenge?
- Your lack of confidence at work?
- A leadership crisis requiring you to take your leadership competencies and skills to higher levels?
- Transitions in your career, or your leadership role?
- How to participate in the evolution of global consciousness?
- Who you really are as a leader of the future?
Learn more about conscious leadership principles and conscious leadership coaching.
Living Consciously
Are you experiencing a midlife crisis or a lifequake emanating from a series of midlife crises, in areas such as work, health, relationships, or money? Are you planning for retirement? Do you need help navigating through some of the elements of the conscious living wheel?
During your life transitions coaching experience we’ll develop your conscious living manifesto which includes your purpose portfolio and prepare a roadmap through your current and impending transitions.
Learn more about conscious living and life transitions coaching.

Aging Consciously
Are you beyond midlife and beginning to think about your legacy, harvesting your life’s wisdom. Becoming an elder, looking towards life’s completion, and facing your mortality? Are you aging consciously?
Conscious aging is a holistic and intentional approach to growing older that emphasizes awareness, acceptance, and personal growth. Rather than viewing aging as a decline or something to be feared, conscious aging encourages individuals to embrace the aging process with mindfulness, purpose, vitality, and grace.
Learn more about aging consciously.
Coaching Support
If you’re looking for a guide on the side to support you through your leadership development journey, or through midlife or later life transitions including retirement, take time to visit the pages of this website and, if you wish, schedule a complimentary discovery session using my online calendar or contact me via email.
Conversation Circles
Responding to the Loneliness Epidemic described by U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy as a profound threat to our health and well-being, I host live conversation circles in-person and via Zoom. Come and join us.
2Young2Retire
2Young2Retire, LLC is a coaching, consulting, and training organization. We support the philosophy that we all have much to contribute beyond our initial careers and we are all too young to retire. Aligning with the late Jan Hively’s personal mantra, “meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath,” we encourage active contribution for as long as we can. 2Young2Retire® is a registered trademark. For permissions to use the trademark, please contact Paul Ward.
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During my recent visit to the Modern Elder Academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, our cohort discussed the Exploratorium®, which is “a public learning laboratory where you can…
Becoming a Mentern
I recently visited the Modern Elder Academy, the world’s first midlife wisdom school, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chip Conley is the inspirational founder of the Modern Elder…
Are you Leading, Living, and Aging Consciously?
Conscious Leadership, Conscious Living, and now Conscious Aging embrace my professional and personal journey over the past quarter of a century. Revising my conscious living manifesto recently reminded…


