Keep the people who know how it actually works.
More than half of workers over 50 are managed out before they choose to leave — and the ones who stay get handed AI with no training and told to figure it out. The Long Game at Work™ re-engages your most experienced people and turns their judgment into your advantage.
Experience is walking out. Quietly.
Your most experienced people carry the judgment, the client relationships and the institutional memory a new hire cannot Google. Right now more than half of them are being managed out before they would choose to leave — and the ones you keep are being handed AI with no training while the business quietly assumes they will work it out. Unilever, Walmart, Bank of America, Microsoft and Google have all started paying to fix this. Most companies have not started at all.
What it is costing you
- Institutional memory that leaves without a handover
- Client relationships that walk out with the person who built them
- Quiet disengagement that shows up in attrition data a year too late
- An AI rollout stalling in the exact tier that makes the decisions
- Replacement cost on senior roles, over and over
Who this is for
- Senior individual contributors and long-tenure managers
- Teams in the middle of a restructure
- High performers who have gone quiet
- The 45+ cohort inside an AI rollout
- Leaders who cannot afford to lose the bench they have
Keynote → workshop → 90-day cohort.
Door one is The Expiration Date Delusion — the keynote that opens the conversation and gives the room permission to be honest. Door two is the work itself: a half-day workshop, then a 90-day cohort built on the neuroscience of identity and burnout recovery, run inside your company with The Long Game app as the daily-practice layer. That app is the part that makes it stick after everyone goes back to their desks.
Name it
Find out who is disengaging and why — before it shows up in your attrition numbers. Managers get language for the conversation they have been avoiding.
Rebuild it
Identity work, burnout recovery and AI multiplication training for the 45+ cohort. Tenure stops being a liability and starts being the reason they are the ones to lead it.
Prove it
Every participant leaves with a second-act plan built inside the company instead of pointed at the exit — and you leave with a measured cohort, not a feeling.
Start where it makes sense for you.
Three ways into the programs, and one way to put an operator in the chair. Most companies start with the keynote and go deeper once the room has heard it. Every engagement is scoped to your team before anything is quoted.
The Expiration Date Delusion
The talk that opens the conversation and makes it safe to have. Built on Stanford Longevity and AARP research, delivered by an operator, not a motivational speaker.
- 45–60 minutes, plus live Q&A
- Conference, leadership offsite or all-hands
- Optional book signing
- Travel handled separately, at cost
Speak Easy for Executives
Communication and presence under pressure, built on Fay’s Speak Easy Formula™. For leaders who have to hold a room, a board or a bad quarter.
- Half day, on-site
- Capped group so every leader gets reps
- Pre-work plus a leave-behind toolkit
- Runs standalone or after the keynote
The Long Game at Work™
The full program. Keynote, workshop and a 90-day cohort run inside your company, with The Long Game app carrying the daily practice between sessions.
- Signal → Strengthen → Rebuild → Rise
- Daily practice layer, not a one-off session
- Manager language for retention conversations
- A named, measured cohort at the end
An operator in the chair, two days a week
For founders, CEOs and PE operating partners who need someone who has run the thing — not someone who has advised on it. Franchise systems, multi-unit operations, launch and scale. Every engagement opens with a 90-day diagnostic, so you see the work before you commit to the year.
- Two days a week, monthly retainer
- 90-day diagnostic first
- Franchise, multi-unit, consumer and PE-backed portfolios
- Sunnyside Grill — complete franchise system built from scratch
- Godiva — $300M brand, 400+ points of distribution
- Dove Spa / Unilever — North American launch, end to end
An operator, not a consultant.
Twenty-five years running global businesses before ever advising one. Fay has sat in the chair, carried the number and made the call — which is why senior people in the room stop treating this as an HR initiative and start treating it as their own.
Track record
- VP & Director International Operations, Godiva Chocolatier — $300M brand, 400+ points of distribution
- Launched Godiva Canada from zero to $10M
- Managing Director North America, Dove Spa / Unilever Ventures
- Fractional COO, Sunnyside Grill — built the full franchise system
- Founder & CEO, NorthFuse Group
Credentials
- Ivey MBA
- Entrepreneur of the Year
- Judge, Elite Franchise 100
- Author, Nothing You Survive Is Wasted
- Founder of Too Late My Ass™, the live lab for the over-50 workforce
Let’s talk about what your people need.
Tell me about your team, your timeline and what is not working. I will come back with a recommendation, a format and the investment — usually within two business days.
