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Book Title:Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There
Author:Julian Lighton
Published:2026
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We spend around 90,000 hours of our lives at work, yet many people invest more time planning a holiday than deciding what they really want from their career. Navigating Your Next gives readers the tools to change that. At a time of AI-driven disruption, layoffs, hiring freezes and shifting career paths, the book helps people move from uncertainty to clarity and take greater control of what comes next. Its practical seven-step framework enables readers to identify what they genuinely want from work, understand and articulate their value, recognise the skills and behaviours they need to develop, and pursue opportunities that align with their ambitions.
Drawing on Julian Lighton’s 35 years of experience hiring, leading and coaching people, it supports readers at every career stage – from those starting out to experienced professionals considering a reinvention. Rather than prescribing one definition of success, it equips people to define their own and build a realistic path towards it.