About Larry Jacobson

"Retirement is not the end, but rather the opportunity for a new beginning,” says Larry Jacobson, a leading authority on non-fiscal retirement planning. Jacobson uses his own successful experience from his business career, retiring from the corporate world, and from achieving his personal dreams, as proven models for his coaching. His experience has attracted entrepreneurs, CEO’s, doctors, attorneys, teachers, and public figures.

Not accepting that retirement is a time to stop growing, he coaches clients to discover untapped passions beyond their previous career. He then combines these passions with the knowledge from their vocation to build a plan of action incorporating both into a retirement of fulfillment and purpose.  

Jacobson is a nationally recognized go-to person in the field of non-fiscal retirement planning. His personal coaching and award-winning online video classroom were developed by reverse engineering his own successful experience and that of his clients. Larry successfully transitioned from CEO to sailor and achieved his dream of sailing around the world. Then from sailor to author and speaker, he now focuses all of his energy into his coaching programs for retirement planning. His company Buoy Coaching, and the groundbreaking program, Sail Into Retirement, have quickly achieved notoriety in the field in the life planning field. Larry is a member of the Board of Directors of the Life Planning Network and the Retirement Coaches Association. He is a sought after public speaker; from two TEDx talks to the prestigious Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.

A California native, circumnavigator and adventurer, Larry Jacobson is an avid sailor with over 50,000 blue water miles under his keel. He is the author of the six-time award-winning memoir of his six-year circumnavigation in the book, The Boy Behind the Gate. Other works include Navigating Entrepreneurship: 11 Proven Keys, and the children's adventure book, Let's Go! He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.