Bob Bureau helps retirees find more joy, purpose, and connection in life through conversations, workshops, and resource guides.
Adjusting from up to 45 years of having a hectic career to suddenly stopping and retiring can be difficult. One of the biggest surprises people encounter in retirement is having so much unstructured time and not knowing what to do with their days. Getting brief, solution-focused, one-on-one help can be a real game-changer. Bob is focused on guiding you from where you are now to where you want to be. He does this through having conversations with people on Zoom. They are easy to set up and convenient.
Bob Bureau is a resiliency expert, workshop facilitator, researcher, and author living in the heart of Massachusetts in the United States. Some of his strengths are helping people find a stronger sense of purpose, building a wider circle of friends outside of work, taking care of health concerns, deepening family relationships, giving back to their local community by volunteering, working if desired, traveling, exercising, hobbies, and much more. Everyone has a unique portfolio of ways to spend their time. Bob can inspire you to explore and find what makes you happier and more resilient.
Resilience and Retirement
Bob Bureau, M.Ed., CAGS, CCFE, CCFT, is the founder of Happier Retirement. Since 2017, he has researched and created highly effective solutions, led workshops, written resource guides, and had conversations with hundreds of individuals. Before Happier Retirement, he worked for 35 years through his firm, Resiliency Solutions, as a professional speaker in settings across America. Today, because of the widespread use of Zoom, Bob can offer customized workshops to groups anywhere in the world. Bob also offers in-person workshops in Massachusetts, in the United States.
Bob has had amazing mentors over the past 45 years, including Janine Roberts, Paul Vasconcellos, Bailey Jackson, Mary Ellen Copeland, Laura Rauscher, Judith Heumann, Justin Dart, David Oaks, Deborah Reidy, Jan Passion, Steven Botkin, Charmaine Wijeyesinghe, Maurianne Adams, Marianne Cutler, Lisa Groves, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dottie Walters, Daniel Fisher, Patricia Deegan, Judi Chamberlin, Leroy Spaniol, Bill Anthony, Kevin Bradley, Hans Nieper, James DiReda, Jayna Turchek, Lisa Brennan, Meg Coffin, Kaska Yawo, Joe Prochilo, Mary Ann Bedick, Lee Pearson, Tom McCarthy, Larry Steward, Cindy Reynolds, and Al Siebert, who was the world leader in the field of Resiliency.
Kindness and Hope
He was the Director of Online Graduate Programs for ten years at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Bob was also a professor for 15 years in the Rehabilitation Counseling Graduate Program and Human Services & Rehabilitation Studies Undergraduate Department. He has led three-day-long, interactive, small-group workshops on Resiliency for hundreds of Certified Rehabilitation Counselors working across New England.
Bob completed intensive training by Francoise Mathieu of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to become certified as a Compassion Fatigue Educator. Bob then went on to further training and was certified as a Compassion Fatigue Therapist by the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology.
He is naturally a curious learner, a member of Mensa (the best-known, high-IQ society), and a supporter of the ground-breaking Human Longevity Project. Bob joined TED Talks as a founding member of a unique community of thinkers and doers working towards a brighter future. He is also a member of the World Future Society.
Happily Married
Pay It Forward
He is devoted to volunteering and is an active member of many Advisory Boards, Boards of Directors, Commissions, and Boards of Trustees, including the Center for Living and Working, the Genesis Club, the Accessibility Advisory Commission, the African Community Education, and the Worcester Recovery Center & Hospital.
Bob has improved the lives of countless people throughout his 45-year professional career. He is respected as a caring, dedicated, and innovative leader in the fields of Happiness, Resilience, and Retirement. If you are ready to have a conversation with him or if you’d like to schedule a workshop, contact Bob below.