Upcoming webinar

The missing piece of retirement readiness: Purpose, connection and social health

Tuesday 15 September 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm AEST

Up to 1 CPD hours available 

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Session Overview

Many Australians spend years preparing financially for retirement, yet retirement readiness involves more than having enough money to live well. 

The structures that have shaped everyday life can change significantly when work ends. Routine, identity, purpose, relationships and everyday social connection can all be affected. Retirement is also a major life transition, and transitions are times when people can become particularly aware of loneliness and social disconnection. 

In this webinar, Phil McAuliffe from Humans:Connecting and Tatia Power from Inclusee will introduce the concept of social health, explore its role in retirement readiness and why people can be financially prepared for retirement yet socially underprepared for what comes next. 

Drawing on research, lived experience, real-world examples and practical experience supporting people to live socially well, Phil and Tatia will help advisers recognise the social changes and risk factors that emerge around retirement, understand how these can affect their clients’ wellbeing and retirement experience, and consider how conversations about social health can complement the financial advice process.

The session offers advisers a broader lens through which to understand and support successful retirement outcomes. 

Meet your speakers

Phil McAuliffe

Founder, HUMANS:CONNECTING

Phil McAuliffe is the founder of HUMANS:CONNECTING and a speaker and author exploring the role of human connection and relational infrastructure in modern life.  

His work examines how environments shape interactions – in workplaces, institutions and communities – and how these interactions influence trust, belonging, leadership and social cohesion. 

Phil spent 23 years in the Australian Public Service working across social, economic and security policy, as well as international engagement and diplomacy, including diplomatic postings abroad.  

After experiencing loneliness in midlife despite a successful career and family life, he shifted his work to understanding the environments that shape human connection.  

He contributes to international conversations on loneliness and connection through speaking, writing and policy collaboration.

Tatia Power

Strategic Partnerships Manager, Inclusee

Tatia Power is the Strategic Partnerships Manager at Inclusee, a national charity focused on improving social connection and wellbeing for older Australians and unpaid carers.

With a background spanning community development, strategic partnerships and digital marketing, Tatia works with organisations across the aged care, health, community and financial services sectors to develop initiatives that support people to lead more connected and fulfilling lives.

Through her work at Inclusee, Tatia has developed expertise in the role social connection, purpose and community participation play in healthy ageing and retirement wellbeing. A regular speaker, writer and advocate for social inclusion, Tatia brings practical insights and real-world experience to conversations about how people can thrive socially throughout later life.