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Kerry Hannon
Specialties: personal finance, retirement, career transition, women and financial security
Home base: Washington, DC
Web site: www.kerryhannon.com
X: @KerryHannon
BlueSky: @kerryhannon.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/kerryhannon
Kerry Hannon is a leading authority and strategist on retirement, jobs, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership and personal finance. She is a frequent TV, radio, and podcast commentator and is a sought-after keynote speaker at major conferences. Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. Kerry’s books and appearances focus on how the shifting demographics are transforming the way we work and create wealth, purpose, and happiness. Millions of viewers, readers, and listeners have been motivated by Kerry’s can-do, down-to-earth message.
Kerry’s latest book is Retirement Bites: A Gen X Guide to Securing Your Financial Future (Hachette, 2025). The Wall Street Journal named it one of “The Best Books of 2025 About Healthy Aging.” She has covered all aspects of careers, business and personal finance as an expert columnist, editor and writer for the nation’s leading media companies, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Money, U.S. News & World Report, and USA Today. Kerry’s work has also appeared in BusinessWeek and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, among other national publications. Her advice as a work and jobs expert has been a regular feature in AARP publications, and she is currently the featured expert in numerous AARP webinar series.
She is the best-selling and award-winning author of 14 books, including In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work (McGraw Hill, 2022), Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy … And Pays the Bills (Wiley, 2012; updated 2017), Great Pajama Jobs (Wiley, 2020), and Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life (Wiley, 2019).
Other books include: Money Confidence: Really Smart Financial Moves for Newly Single Women (Post Hill Press, 2017), Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness (Wiley, 2015), Getting the Job You Want After 50 (Wiley, 2015), What’s Next?: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job in Your Forties, FIfties, and Beyond (Chronicle Books, 2010) and the updated What’s Next?: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Penguin, 2014).
Kerry has appeared as a career and financial expert on ABC News, CBS News, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, NPR, and PBS and many podcasts.
In addition to offering practical advice for mid-life workers seeking jobs, financial and personal rewards, and riding the age wave of longevity with grace, a key passion for Kerry is helping and advising people on how to take charge of their own financial planning, at all stages of their lives, to prepare themselves for a financially secure future.
Kerry is honored to have been a National Press Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Columbia Journalism School, a Fellow and featured moderator in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center’s Age Boom Academy, as well as a Fellow at The Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She has testified before Congress about the importance of older workers in the workforce and retirement readiness. Kerry was awarded the 2023 Retirement Pioneer Award issued by the Retirement Coaches Association for her efforts to expand and enhance the lives of retired people seeking encore careers, tools, and resources.
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