Dr. Mantel Featherson, EdD

Author of Expert to 100k+

Dr. Mantel Featherson, EdD is a mental performance researcher focused on expertise development and career sustainability for professionals over 50. His work examines how seasoned professionals can preserve relevance, income, and identity in an economy where traditional employment has become increasingly unstable and hard-earned expertise is often undervalued.
 
After decades working inside large corporate systems, Dr. Featherson experienced firsthand how quickly expertise can be diminished by organizational restructuring, automation, and age bias. That experience prompted a decisive shift in his work–from navigating corporate advancement to helping seasoned professionals reclaim control of their careers beyond the traditional 9-to-5 employment system.
 
He is the author of Expert to $100K+: How Professionals Over 50 Own Their Expertise and Earn Six Figures Without a 9 to 5. In the book, Dr. Featherson explores the economic realities facing professionals over 50 in a labor market that increasingly favors AI, automation, and younger, lower-cost talent, and presents a practical strategy for building income, impact, and independence—now and in the future.
 
Dr. Featherson is also the founder of FutureProof50, a digital education platform dedicated to helping professionals over 50 convert decades of knowledge, experience, and perspective into owned, income-producing assets. Through FutureProof50, he delivers research-backed frameworks, tools, and education designed to support long-term economic independence rather than short-term job security.
 
In addition, he is the creator of the Expertise Ownership Architecture, a four-part framework that enables seasoned professionals to shift from dependence on increasingly unstable employment toward entrepreneurial stability built on self-owned expertise. His work emphasizes ownership over employment, assets over titles, and long-term resilience over short-term opportunity.
 
His mission is simple: help seasoned professionals stop renting their expertise to employers–and start owning it to build sustainable income, independence, and control in the second half of life.
 
Dr. Featherson lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Michele, and their two sons.