Episode 179: Julian Lighton & his book, Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There

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Julian Lighton discusses his career journey and insights from his book on navigating career paths.

Episode 179: Julian Lighton & his book, Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There ABOUT JULIAN Julian Lighton is one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches, helping individuals and organisations navigate what’s next. He has more than 30 years’ experience advising, hiring and developing talent as a senior operating executive, general manager, consultant and coach. Julian was a Chief Strategy Officer at four, billion-dollar revenue, public companies, a board director, and associate partner for McKinsey and a senior global sales and marketing executive at Fortune 100 companies Hitachi and Cisco. He holds a BA and MA in Law from Oxford University, a Masters-level in Negotiation from Harvard University, and is a Chartered Director by the Royal Institute of Directors. Julian 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. CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS • Julian’s diverse career journey from law to tech to private equity• The role of curiosity in innovation and leadership• How resilience and failure have shaped Julian’s…

People in this episode

Host: John M Jaramillo

Guest: Julian Lighton

Topics covered

• career navigation
• leadership principles
• innovation
• resilience
• corporate culture
• self-awareness

Keywords

• career
• leadership
• innovation
• resilience
• self-actualization
• storytelling
• focus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: McKinsey, Hitachi, Cisco, Royal Institute of Directors

Books & works: Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There

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