Longevity Research and Consultancy

Longevity, Purpose, and the Art of Continuing to Grow

The Never Too Late Academy explores what it means to live longer, stay independent, and continue growing, at every stage of life as an individual and an organization.
Drawing on insights from Japan, ongoing longevity research, and decades of experience in leadership, publishing, coaching, and social enterprise, the Academy works with both individuals and organizations navigating a rapidly changing world.

Introducing NTLA

The Longevity Project

The Academy's current flagship initiative explores how people live long, healthy, independent lives, particularly within communities across Japan.
The project combines travel, field observation, interviews, and research, and forms the foundation for the upcoming book:

Longevity and the Art of Community: Lessons from Japan

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Consultancy for Organizations

We provide insight and advisory support for organizations seeking to better understand the emerging longevity market and the behavioural patterns shaping it. Clients are from the Insurance, retail and academic sectors.

Areas of focus include:

Longevity and healthy aging and Compressing the Red Zone
Purpose and engagement in later life
Community and social connection
Behavioural and cultural insights from Japan
Leadership in an aging society

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For Individuals

Coaching and mentoring on goal setting as well as writing and publishing

Areas of support include:

Goal setting and life direction
Longevity and active aging
Writing and publishing Guidance
Creative and personal reinvention
Purpose and next-stage thinking

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From the Blog

Stories, reflections, and insights from ongoing journeys across Japan and beyond.

Haiku, Aging, and the Aha Moment

This week in Tokyo, I had the privilege of spending time with two Haiku masters, Emiko Miyashita and Kyoko Uchimura. We shared dinner, exchanging thoughts on poetry, aging, and life in Japan. The following day I sat in on their workshop during a conference on the Humanities and the Arts organised by the International Academic Forum. Many of the older people I meet in Japan’s longevity hotspots practice haiku, and I wanted to understand more. To many outsiders, haiku can appea

What Japan’s Yakult Ladies Reveal About Aging Well

Early in my research into aging in Japan, gerontologist Dr. James McNally wrote me and said something that stopped me in my tracks. He suggested that I may be documenting the last cohort of Japanese super-agers: a generation who benefited from social and cultural conditions that may no longer exist in the same form. That thought has stayed with me ever since. Recently, psychologist Professor Dexter Da Silva, after hearing me share about the “last cohort” idea, wondered aloud

Is Japan Producing Its Last Cohort of Super-Agers?

Early in my research for Longevity and the Art of Community: Lessons from Japan , a leading gerontologist made a remark that has stayed with me. Professor James McNally of the University of Michigan and a colleague in the International Academic Forum suggested that I might be studying the last cohort of super-agers in Japan. At the time, the phrase struck me as dramatic. The longer I travel, the more I listen, and the more I compare what I see with the data, the more I thin

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Japan Solo: Field Notes from Japan

The companion platform to the Never Too Late Academy, sharing the journey in real time through video, reflections, and encounters across Japan.
Follow along on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Long-form videos and stories from the field

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Field notes, reflections, and emerging insights

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