Navigating Your Next

Find the clarity, confidence, and direction you've been missing. The most important career question you can ask yourself is 'What do I want?'. When your career no longer fits—or you're unsure what success even looks like—it's easy to feel stuck. Navigating Your Next offers a practical, proven road map to help you move forward with clarity. Whether you're launching your career, navigating midlife change, or redefining your goals after reaching the top, this guide helps you uncover what matters most and how to pursue it. Drawing from decades of real world experience and more than 500 coaching engagements, Julian Lighton delivers a seven-step framework to help you know what you want, define your value, activate your network, and pursue meaningful work with confidence. With the right mindset and strategy, you can design a future that reflects your purpose—and take the next step with certainty.

JULIAN LIGHTON is regarded as one of Silicon Valley's leading strategy practitioners and business coaches helping individuals and organizations navigate what's next. Julian has more than 30 years' experience as a senior operating executive, general manager, consultant and coach, including being a non-executive director; a Chief Strategy Officer at four, billion-dollar revenue, public companies; a GM of a $300m+ services company; an associate partner in a world class consulting business (McKinsey); and a senior global sales and marketing executive in Fortune 100 companies (Hitachi and Cisco). He holds a BA and MA in Law from Magdalen College, Oxford, is a Chartered Director by the UK's Royal Institute of Directors, is a Master Negotiator from PON at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and is one of only four hundred coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at the individual and team level by both the ICF and EMCC.

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One. Finding Your Next Step 1. Initiate: Prepare to Embark on a Journey Step 2. Insight: Know Yourself Step 3. Imagine: Know Your Options Part Two. Getting Your Next Step 4. Investigate: Why You? Step 5. Implement: Activate the Plan Part Three. Living Your Next Step 6. Increase: Know Your Success Step 7. Inspire: Move from I to We