
Building Blocks Learning Network offers specialized retirement courses designed for both executives and employees and managers. For executives, our one-day workshop covers essential topics like pension planning, selecting the right retirement date, and transitioning to retirement, with a focus on both financial and lifestyle considerations. We also offer a retirement course for non-executives, providing valuable guidance on both financial and lifestyle aspects of retirement. If your schedule doesn’t allow for a public course, personalized retirement coaching is available at your convenience. Our goal is to help you plan for a successful retirement with clarity and confidence.

Retirement Courses and Coaching
About This Course
- Start your planning early on, 20 plus years prior
- Successful retirement is 50/50 psychological and financial
- Planning is not as straight forward as you may think
- Peace of mind comes from planning
About This Course
- Created by executives for executives
- Helping to demystify the complexity of government policies
- Condensed and fast-paced
- Designed to help find the "Ah ha" moment when your questions are answered
About This Service
- Personalized Coaching for Executives
- Confidential one-on-one
- Unpacking what you need to know and why
- Helps support your best decisions and designed for peace of mind
Meet the instructors

François Poudrier
Expert financial advisor
François has had an extensive career in the Financial Planning industry, with over 25 years of experience. With a focus on education, he takes a personalized approach to finding solutions to help clients achieve their financial and retirement planning goals. François has offered thousands of retirement seminars to members of the Federal public service, OMERS, HOOPP, Teacher’s Pension and Canada Post. He is also certified under the Public Service Superannuation Act (PSSA) and can assist with your pension needs.

Vanessa Charron
Senior Retirement Instructor and Life Coach
Throughout her professional career Vanessa has been delivering a core of professional development programs through training, executive coaching, and team building events and retreats. Her training curriculum is centred on the development of skills such as assertiveness, emotional intelligence, conflict prevention and resolution, public speaking, and life planning for retirement.

Janet Wong
Expert in advising government executives
Building on over 30 years of experience in the federal public service, Janet Wong is now working as a consultant, facilitator and coach. As a former executive, Janet has extensive experience in coaching and providing advice to other executives across the public service on a broad range of topics, including human resources issues, terms and conditions of employment, health and wellness, and career and retirement planning. Since retiring from the public service, Janet continues to share her expertise in these areas through the retirement planning course for executives, with the additional benefit of her own lived experience of transitioning to retirement.