About this episode

Johanna Danaher discusses the emotional and psychological transitions faced by pre-retirees and mid-life professionals as they leave long-held careers.

Johanna Danaher is a mindset, life and leadership coach who helps high-achieving pre-retirees and mid-life professionals navigate one of the most overlooked transitions of all: who you become after you leave a long-held career. After more than 25 years in high-level corporate leadership, guiding global talent, culture and leadership strategy at Pfizer, Johanna understands how deeply identity can become intertwined with a title—and how destabilizing it can feel when that chapter comes to an end. Through her coaching practice, Anchor to Aspire™ , she now supports pre-retirees and midlife professionals as they navigate the emotional and psychological side of transition, helping them move forward with clarity, energy and intention. Johanna’s work blends evidence-based tools with deeply human insight, drawing from Energy Leadership™, the Energy Leadership Index (ELI), Positive Intelligence®, Whole Brain Thinking and the science of happiness. She helps clients recognize how they show up on their best days versus under stress—and how small mindset and energy shifts can radically change their experience of retirement, reinvention and life transitions. What sets Johanna apart is her…

People in this episode

Host: Maria Leonard Olsen

Guest: Johanna Danaher

Topics covered

• life coaching
• career transition
• mid-life professionals
• identity
• retirement planning
• mindset shifts

Keywords

• life coaching
• career transition
• pre-retirees
• mindset
• identity
• leadership
• retirement
• emotional transition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pfizer, Anchor to Aspire™, Energy Leadership™, Energy Leadership Index (ELI), Positive Intelligence®, Whole Brain Thinking

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