Ben graduated from Ga. Tech. After a long career in IT, Ben went back to graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development with a focus on adult learning and training. After graduation, he worked for several companies and, in the early 2000s, was part of a mass layoff when two companies merged. Now in his early 60s, future work prospects looked bleak. He eventually found work developing online training courses and became an expert. He wrote over half a dozen books on the subject and was known as Dr. Lectora. (If you are interested, you can see these books on Amazon by searching for “Benjamin Pitman Ph.D.”) Ben retired in 2016. When the pandemic hit, and Zoom became popular, Ben wrote a book on how to deliver suck-free online meetings.
Since then, he has been working on becoming an expert in how to have a meaningful, fulfilling, active retired life. He read many books on the non-financial aspects of retirement. They were helpful, but most took too long to deliver the help he sought. As part of his work, he clarified his WHY, which is to organize and present information clearly and succinctly so that others can easily understand and use it. This led to his writing RETIREMENT UNLEASHED and its companion books.
