MEET COACH GARY GROTH

You deserve support that understands aging… support that is human, grounded, and deeply connected to the realities of your life and the people you love.

You deserve a partner who can help you make sense of what’s happening, navigate what’s next, and move forward with more clarity, confidence, and ease.

I’m Gary Groth, a gerontologist, a certified professional coach, and the founder of Genarian. Aging isn’t abstract for me. I am a genarian myself, and I love and care for several genarians in my own life. I’ve lived the questions, the decisions, the fears, the responsibilities, and the moments of profound connection that aging brings.

I’m also a son, a husband, a father of an adult son, a sibling, a caregiver to my middle-aged disabled brother, and a neighbor. My own family is stretched across states, time zones, generations, and needs… and I live inside the same relationship systems my clients do: the love, the complexity, the responsibility, the worry, the tenderness, and the hope. I know what aging asks of us, because it asks it of me too.

For years, I coached founders, leaders, staff, and volunteers in the nonprofit world, people doing meaningful work and creating real change. Over time, a pattern emerged. The coaching conversations shifted toward aging, retiring, life planning, identity, purpose, legacy, and “what’s next.” These weren’t side topics. They became the heart of the work.

The deeper the conversations went, the clearer the truth became: aging was the through-line. It was present in every transition, every decision, every moment of uncertainty. And the need for grounded, human, aging-focused coaching was enormous.

Genarian was born from that realization, from the intersection of gerontology, professional coaching, and decades of real experience with real people navigating the complexities of aging.

This is coaching built for aging… grounded, human, and designed for the realities of your life and the people you love.

I don’t fit neatly into the coaching industry, and I’m proud of that. I don’t offer generic advice. I don’t perform a coaching persona. I am a coach who coaches people… individuals, families, and relationships, who are navigating the complexities of aging and want to do it well.

My clients get all of me: my expertise, my curiosity, my intuition, my boldness, my compassion, my training, my lived experience, and my commitment to meaningful change.

This work is personal. This work is professional. This work is powerful. And if you’re here, something in your life is asking for that kind of support.

Welcome. Let’s begin.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

I chose to use photographs from my own family archives because aging, for me, has never been abstract… it has always been personal. These images carry the people I love, the histories we share, and the moments that shaped us. They reflect the real relationships, responsibilities, tenderness, and complexity that define aging in everyday life. Stock photos can’t tell that story. They often flatten aging into clichés or staged optimism, and that’s not the world I live in or the world my clients live in.

The photos on this site are reminders of what aging actually looks like: connection, care, celebration, change, resilience, and the intertwined stories we carry across generations. They’re here because Genarian is about real people… your genarian, my genarian, and the families who love them. The coaching work we do together is personal, and these images honor that truth.

HELLO FROM GARY GROTH

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