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Living Your Best Career is more than just a book—it’s a practical guide and proven system to help you find meaningful work, navigate change, and thrive long-term. Whether you’re facing a pivotal career decision, re-entering the market, or looking to take control of your professional future, our Career Compass process—based on the book—provides structure, clarity, and results.
“If you don’t define success for yourself, someone else will. And they won’t always have your best career in mind.”
— Living Your Best Career, Chapter 1
From Insight to Action: The Career Compass Process
We built the Career Compass Process to turn the insights in Living Your Best Career into a personalized, step-by-step plan. Each client engagement is tailored, yet always grounded in four essential ideas:
- Clarify what matters most. You’ll define a personal mission, vision, and values framework that guides your decisions.
- Get strategic about your job search. With our software-enabled system, we help you structure outreach, organize feedback, and track every opportunity with clarity.
- Make networking work for you. We show you how to avoid network fatigue and instead build relationships that matter and sustain career momentum.
- Own your career trajectory. We don’t just help you get the next job—we help you engage for success long term.
- Make it work long term. We make sure you keep the job you love and convert it into a successful long term career.
“Most careers stall not from lack of talent, but from lack of direction and weak connection to the market.”
— Living Your Best Career, Chapter 5
Working Nationwide
We’ve guided hundreds of professionals—executives, entrepreneurs, career changers—through career transitions using this approach. And it works.
“The turning point in every successful career isn’t just what you do—it’s who you become when you own your journey.”
— Living Your Best Career, Epilogue
Career Narrative Development
Owning your career future requires understanding your unique journey so far. We work with our Clients to develop and deepen their career journey understanding and unique story. This highlights how each professional has arrived where they are through the jobs they have taken. Then we use the Career Compass process to build the career they will love.
Chapters 1 and 2 anchor this part of the process.
“If you don’t define success for yourself, someone else will…”
— Living Your Best Career, Chapter 1
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Paradigm Shift from Jobs to Careers
Understanding how leverage your job skills to create a great career is the most crucial paradigm shift our Career Compass Clients have to make. Internalizing why jobs are just options for your career forms the basis for this paradigm shift. Building from past jobs, creating a career vision and then engaging to make it happen requires planning, advocacy, and input from both yourself and others. We work with our Clients each week to ensure this process happens smoothly and effectively and that each Client is empowered to capture their career vision.
Chapters 3 through 7 cover how to do this.
“Most careers stall not from lack of talent, but from lack of direction and weak connection to the market.”
— Living Your Best Career, Chapter 5
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Networking Redefined shifting from Contacts to Advocates
Who you Know (Contact) and who you Need (Advocates) requires a redefinition of networking and shifting of Contact to Advocates. Over time the biggest shift for managing your career is understanding the changing dynamic from What you know to Who you know as you move from taking jobs to making your career.. Our Career Compass process will show you how to capitalize on What you know and leverage it with Who you know according to your career interest over time. This will allow you to shape-value added conversations within your network. We use networking to refine the career story, to define the issues that will shape your career future and that will ensure you are truly better off after your next move.
Chapters 8 through 12 refine relationships, issues, and how to plan your career.
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Book Excerpts from Living Your Best Career
Excerpt from Chapter 1-2
Excerpt from Chapter 3-7
Excerpt from Chapter 8-12
Excerpt from Chapter 9-18
Excerpt from Chapter 16
Excerpt from the Epilogue
“The turning point in every successful career isn’t just what you do—it’s who you become when you own your journey.”
— Living Your Best Career, Epilogue
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Schedule a confidential call with us. Let’s discuss how the Career Compass process—and our coaching—can bring focus, traction, and joy back to your career.
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