Thank you for joining the conversation at YPO EDGE 2026 in Sydney!

Together, we explored what it means to lead and make decisions in a world shaped by longer, healthier human lives. Longevity is no longer a distant demographic trend or a healthcare issue alone; it is a structural force reshaping leadership, work, markets, and society. As lives lengthen, organizations must rethink how they sustain performance, design careers, and create value over longer time horizons.

We examined the distinction between lifespan and healthspan, recognizing that while the last century extended life by reducing early mortality and prolonging late life, the next era is focused on extending the middle—years of health, capability, and contribution. Advances in biology and medicine suggest healthspan is already increasing, with research underway to further decouple chronological age from biological age. This reframes longevity as a strategic design challenge, presenting both real pressures and new opportunities across workforces, leadership pipelines, and customer relationships.

Throughout the session, we emphasized reframing challenges as opportunities, treating people and connections as performance infrastructure, and adopting a future-positive mindset grounded in disciplined imagination. Ultimately, longevity is not something that happens to organizations. It is something future-ready leaders will design through the decisions they make now, the trade-offs they acknowledge, and the systems they choose to build together.

Want to go deeper?

I offer a follow-on workshop for leadership teams focused on designing and pressure-testing concrete experiments your organization can run to prepare for a longevity future—responsibly, rigorously, and with people at the center. This workshop is designed for organizations ready to move beyond conversation and begin learning their way forward. Contact me to learn more!

Don’t forget to check out the short explorations and deeper dives in the Resources PDF for our session!