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  • John Tarnoff

    Executive & Career Transition Coach

    Reinvention Group LLC

    John Tarnoff is a Thrive Global Certified Executive Coach, workshop facilitator, speaker, and author who connects mid and late-career professionals to their inner calling, helping them transform their work lives into meaningful, purposeful, and sustainable. second act-careers. When his executive and entrepreneurial career hit a wall at age 50, he went back to school to earn a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology, which inspired him to create his own second-act career focused on education and training. His 2017 book, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50, launched on CBS This Morning and became an Amazon best-seller. PBS/Next Avenue has named him as one of its Top Influencers on Aging. Previously, he served as a film studio executive and producer for companies including MGM, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Village-Roadshow, and DreamWorks Animation. During the 1990s dotcom “bubble,” his startup, Talkie, Inc. pioneered AI-based chat bot technology for customer service applications. Clients included Sprint, AT&T, Scottrade, and Progressive Insurance. He joined the Thrive Global team in 2017 to support the company’s holistic vision of a balanced, productive, and engaged workplace. From 2010 to 2020, he served as an adjunct professor and Head of Industry Relations for Carnegie Mellon University’s Los Angeles-based Master of Entertainment Industry Management graduate program. John holds a MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a BA magna-cum-laude from Amherst College. A native New Yorker, raised in Paris, France, he now lives in Los Angeles.

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