Hi, I’m Donna Hemmert Baumann.

Author and specialist in the science of midlife well-being, helping women seize their next chapter with energy and purpose.

I earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, writing more than 1,000 pages in one intense year, and began studying what helps people build lives of greater meaning, vitality, connection, and purpose.

That journey became the CARPE model—and eventually the book, the Rethinking Midlife Workshop, and the work I now do with women navigating their own next chapter.