Headshots
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Official headshot · Johns HopkinsPrint-resolution version and a stage photo: to be added
Media kit
Bios in three lengths, headshots, the introduction a host reads, the four keynotes, and the one-sheet. Copy what you need.
Bios
Short · about 50 words
Kwame Kuadey is a keynote speaker, author of The Social Security Playbook, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School. He founded Benefits Insider, a media brand reaching more than 365,000 Americans 55 and older, and speaks on the new retirement: Social Security, Medicare, purpose, and a next chapter lived boldly.
Medium · about 120 words
Kwame Kuadey is a keynote speaker, author, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School. For more than 15 years he has helped older adults claim the benefits they earned, and he founded Benefits Insider and co-founded Next Chapter Media, a retirement media company reaching more than 365,000 Americans 55 and older with plain-language guidance on Social Security, Medicare, and the life after work. Before that, he built a company to more than $60 million in sales, won a deal on ABC's Shark Tank, and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Maryland. His keynotes carry one message: retirement has changed, it can last 30 years, and spending it winding down is a missed opportunity. You don't start that chapter from zero. You start it with more experience, wisdom, and perspective than any chapter before it. He is the author of The Social Security Playbook; The Medicare Playbook is next.
Long · about 330 words
Kwame Kuadey has spent more than 15 years helping older adults claim the benefits they earned, starting with food assistance and expanding into Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and disability. He is the founder of Benefits Insider and co-founder of Next Chapter Media, a retirement media company reaching more than 365,000 Americans 55 and older with plain-language guidance and one standard: no panic, no politics, just clarity.
Being that close to the community for that long showed him a problem the statistics don't: people were not ready for how long retirement would last. It showed up as purpose with nowhere to go, money running out, homes nobody had prepared to age in, health that wasn't ready for the length, and people navigating it alone. Those five problems became the Next Chapter Five, the framework behind his flagship keynote and the reason Next Chapter Media exists.
His own story overlaps with his audience's. He built a company to more than $60 million in sales, won a deal on ABC's Shark Tank, was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Maryland, and led an Inc. 5000 company. Then he watched that company close. Rebuilding taught him the lesson behind everything he does now: you never start over from zero. Age gives you experience, wisdom, and perspective, and a 30-year retirement spent winding down wastes all three.
Kwame is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School and speaks on four topics: navigating the new retirement, Social Security, Medicare, and purpose and paycheck. He is the author of The Social Security Playbook, with The Medicare Playbook to follow. He is a longtime member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, active in its regional leadership, and holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.
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Introduction
About 45 seconds. Read it as written; it is built to land the credential, the reach, and the message in that order.
Our next speaker teaches finance at Johns Hopkins University. But most of the people who know him didn't meet him in a classroom. They met him on YouTube, where more than 365,000 Americans over 55 turn to him to make sense of Social Security and Medicare, with no panic, no politics, just clarity.
Before that, he built a company to more than 60 million dollars in sales, won a deal on Shark Tank, and was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Maryland. Then he watched that company close, and he rebuilt. And he learned something most people learn too late: you never start over from zero. You start with everything you've learned. That's why he believes a 30-year retirement spent winding down is a missed opportunity, and why he's here to show you what the next chapter can be.
He's the author of The Social Security Playbook. Please welcome Kwame Kuadey.
Headshots
Print-resolution version and a stage photo: to be added
Keynotes
Formats: keynote 45 to 60 minutes, breakout 30 minutes, client-event workshop 60 to 90 minutes, advisor workshop half day, virtual for any of them. Full descriptions on the homepage.
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