Founder & CEO

Simon Chan is the Founder and CEO of Adapt with Intent Inc., a strategic advisory firm that helps organizations unlock opportunities for innovation and growth at the intersection of longevity, work, higher education, and retirement. Simon works with senior leadership teams to develop strategies that enhance workforce resilience, drive growth, and build longevity-ready systems for the era of 100-year lives.

Simon’s insights are powered by his global network. As a global ambassador and community manager with the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL), he mobilizes the ambassador network to turn longevity research into actionable innovation. Simon co-chairs The Nexel Collaborative, working with Harvard, UChicago, and Notre Dame to pioneer midlife transition programs. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Yale’s Experienced Leaders Initiative and is a Senior Fellow at CoGenerate, advancing intergenerational collaboration in higher education.

With nearly 20 years of executive experience in corporate innovation, strategy, and talent management, Simon has advised Fortune 500 companies on navigating demographic shifts and driving growth. He has held senior roles at Manulife Financial and led future of work initiatives at Communitech, impacting 1,600+ companies. His work has been published in Forbes and pension industry publications, and Simon is a columnist for Advisor.ca on longevity, retirement, and workforce evolution.

Simon holds an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, where he serves as Chair of the Board of Governors and is a member of the Lazaridis School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, Simon enjoys coaching basketball, reading, and cycling along Ontario’s scenic trails.

Chief Design Officer

Kyra Jones is the Chief Design Officer at Adapt with Intent, specializing in collaborative approaches to redesign work and education for 100+ year lives. Kyra works with leaders, educators, and organizations to generate new ways of working and learning that support reinvention throughout our life course.

Kyra has spent her career working with people as they transform through immersive learning and development experiences, from students pursuing post-secondary education to leaders at some of the world's largest organizations. For over 10 years, Kyra has been on a mission to transform what it feels like to learn and develop throughout our lives and cultivate space to bring the best of ourselves to the work we do. She has advanced this important work taking on roles in higher education at Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, leading the Deloitte Greenhouse in Kitchener-Waterloo, and working with startup and scaling organizations as VP, Organizational Development & Culture at Communitech, a globally recognized innovation hub.

With a background in research, higher education, consulting, and innovation, Kyra is a seasoned strategist and designer. Kyra has a PhD in Biology, a B.Ed in Adult Education, and a BSc and brings a deep knowledge of living systems to her work.

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, a global consulting firm working with companies interested in capturing the competitive advantage of gender, nationality, and generational balance. Since 2005, she has worked around the globe with the CEOs, Executive Committees and top management teams of some of the world’s best-known companies to capture the business opportunities of more balanced, 21st century forms of leadership, customer connections and talent management.
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Her ground-breaking thought leadership has featured in The New York Times, BBC, Le Monde, FT, Der Spiegel and is accessible through several seminal books and regular contributions to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. She is an acclaimed speaker on ‘gender bilingual’ leadership, marketing and talent management issues across the globe and has done several TEDx talks. She has been recognized by ELLE Magazine as one of the Top 40 Women Leading Change and was recently celebrated by PWN Global with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Gender Balanced Leadership.

Why Women Mean Business was awarded the MANPOWER Best Book of the Year Prize and her impactful book 7 Steps to Leading a Gender Balanced Business is used by many global leaders as a roadmap to balance.

By nationality Canadian, French and Swiss, she has an MBA from INSEAD and is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She lives in London with her sculptor husband and is occasionally visited by her two, globe-trotting, gender-balanced children, a son and daughter.

Mike Drak is a thirty-eight-year veteran of the financial services industry. He started his own Victory Lap in 2014 and is currently working with his wife, an investment advisor, helping her clients design their own fulfilling retirement lifestyles.

Mike is a best-selling author, award winning blogger, public speaker and retirement lifestyle designer.  His retirement blog articles can be found at Booming Encore.

His best seller “Victory Lap Retirement” was based on the realization that traditional full stop retirement doesn’t work for most people anymore due to increasing longevity. The book presents a new life model better suited to today’s reality.

His follow up book "Retirement Heaven or Hell: Which Will You Choose?" shares some of Mike’s personal experiences in retirement and highlights how people can design and transition to their own unique retirement lifestyle. This book also outlines the valuable retirement lessons learned from the pandemic and introduces nine retirement principles that can support creating a long, healthy and fulfilling life.