Alicia Kunert launches retirement coaching after healthcare career

Alicia Kunert, a longtime Arkansas healthcare executive, is using four decades of leadership experience to guide people into retirement through Primetime Life & Health Retirement Coaching. Her focus goes beyond finances to include health, purpose, and the personal adjustments that shape life after work.

Why it matters: - Retirement planning often stops at money. Alicia Kunert’s new coaching work targets the harder transition: health, identity, relationships, and purpose after a career ends. - Her approach is aimed at people entering a stage of life that can shape family life, community engagement, and spending power.

What happened: - Alicia Kunert, based in Heber Springs, Arkansas, has moved from a decades-long healthcare executive career into retirement-transition coaching. - Kunert retired from her executive healthcare career at the end of 2025. - She is now working through Primetime Life & Health Retirement Coaching. - Influential Women profiled Kunert and her new chapter.

The details: - Kunert spent more than 40 years working across healthcare. - Her background includes nursing, psychology, insurance operations, physician practice management, and hospital administration. - She served as Executive Director at Conway Regional Rehabilitation Hospital. - She served as Chief Administrative Officer at Radiology Associates, P.A. - She also served as chief executive officer of a multi-specialty, multi-ancillary orthopaedic practice. - In 2007, Kunert founded FYG Consulting, LLC. - FYG Consulting supported physician groups, healthcare organizations, and specialty surgery center startups with strategy planning, contract negotiation, and operational development. - Kunert said her strength came from the leadership teams she worked with and the successes they achieved together. - She said patient outcomes, high-quality care, operational efficiency, and financial goals defined success. - Kunert holds a master’s degree from the University of Central Arkansas. - She also holds bachelor’s and associate’s degrees from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. - Her credentials include Registered Nurse, Licensed Psychological Examiner, licensed multi-line insurance agent, Certified Life and Health Coach, and Certificate of Ministry in Pastoral Care. - She is involved with New Life Church. - Outside work, Kunert values family, friends, and boating.

Between the lines: - Kunert is positioning retirement as a life redesign, not an endpoint. - Her coaching model blends practical planning with a broader view of wellness and contribution. - The message also reflects a broader shift among retirees who want structure, meaning, and social connection after leaving full-time work.

What's next: - Through Primetime Life & Health Retirement Coaching, Kunert will keep working with people approaching or entering retirement. - She plans to help clients and financial planners think through the emotional, physical, relational, and purpose-driven sides of retirement. - More information is available through her Influential Women profile and Primetime Life & Health Retirement Coaching.

The bottom line: - Kunert is turning a long healthcare leadership career into a retirement coaching practice built around life, health, and purpose.