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Navigate Your Next Career Clarity:
Free Webinar Series
Get clearer on what you want from your career, and how to get there.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, restless, or simply want to make your next move with more intention, you’ll leave with a clearer sense of direction and a framework you can return to throughout your career.
Four core questions
You don’t need your whole career mapped out. You do need a way to decide what comes next.
This practical, interactive webinar helps you understand what you are good at, what motivates you and the environments in which you are most likely to thrive. Using my Four Axis Framework, you’ll explore your options, identify the paths that fit you and take a clearer, more confident next step.
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What do I want?
Get clearer on what matters to you, what you are good at and where you are most likely to thrive.
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Why me?
Understand the value you bring — your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation — and how to communicate it.
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How do I get what I want?
Turn greater clarity into practical action, build the right relationships and create a route towards what comes next.
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What does success look like?
Define what success actually means to you, so you pursue what genuinely matters, rather than chasing someone else’s version of it.
The questions remain the same throughout your career. The answers change as you do.
Praise from Attendees and Clients
He helped me reframe the entire question, moving beyond ‘how do I make this work’ to ‘what kind of path do I actually want?’ That shift in perspective was transformative.
Rui Chen
AI Solutions / GTM (ex-McKinsey)
His ability to help me thoughtfully evaluate the pros and cons of different paths, navigate the complexities of networking, and identify the next best opportunity was invaluable.
Jennifer Miller
MD/PhD, Healthcare Innovator & Business Strategist
Julian helped me develop clarity and confidence in managing across peers, leading a large team, and engaging effectively with the board.
Ben Pitasky
CFO @ Alvys
He has a unique ability to break down the most complex career dilemmas into tactical next steps. I continue to revisit his advice on how to find and engineer my way towards true north.
Hesam Hamledari
VP Product @ Parspec (ex-McKinsey)
Our sessions helped me step back, connect the dots across my experience, and translate that into a direction that feels both focused and authentic.
Alena Fedorenko
Applied AI Leader at Anthropic (ex-McKinsey)
He helped me gain clarity on my next move while also preparing for high-stakes conversations with CEOs and senior executives.
Aditi Sahni
Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
He deeply challenged my thinking, made sure I was doing the career switch for the right reasons, and helped me evaluate offers to pick the one that suited me best.
Cagatay Gulec
GTM @ YouTube
He helped me gain a deeper understanding of my underlying values and aspirations, ultimately setting me up for a more thorough career journey.
Anna Kushnar
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Julian helped me de-stress what felt like such a big decision, then put structure and action to my thoughts, which helped me find exactly what I was looking for.
Jonathon Miller-Meeks
Director, Commercial Strategy, The Aspen Group
Julian has been an invaluable coach as I’ve transitioned to a senior leadership role, helping me uplevel my leadership skills and giving me tools to assess my success and adjust my approach.
Meg Davy
Data Science Leadership @ DoorDash
Over two years as my executive coach he has measurably elevated my leadership, sharpened my communication, and helped me clarify priorities and make better decisions faster.
Sasha Bratyshkin
Co-Founder & CTO @ Housing.Cloud
His experience has prepared him to fully comprehend the complex challenges of C-level clients. He effectively assisted me in managing a number of high-stakes scenarios and transitions.
Susie Cohen Crumpler
CEO, JCC East Bay
Julian provided invaluable coaching as I navigated some fundamental changes in my career, bringing practical, real-world examples to strategic challenges.
Julia Bricker
Chief Commercial & Product Officer
Your webinar
Find the webinar that’s right for you
Each webinar applies the Navigating Your Next framework to the decisions and opportunities that matter most at a particular stage of your career.
What do you want?
Navigating your career in your 20s
For graduates, postgraduates and early-career professionals who want to be deliberate about where their career goes next.
You don’t need your entire career mapped out. This interactive session helps you understand what you want, what you’re good at, what motivates you and the environments in which you thrive.
Wednesday 4 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST
4 Nov · Register freeWhere you are now
Different stages. Different challenges.
Your experience changes throughout your career and so do the challenges you face in deciding what’s next.
- Early careers
You may be:
- trying to work out what you’re genuinely good at and what you enjoy
- choosing between several possible career paths
- deciding whether you’re better suited to specialist, generalist, entrepreneurial or leadership routes
- unsure which working environments and cultures will bring out your best
- finding it difficult to translate education and early experience into a clear career direction
- feeling overwhelmed by too many possibilities and unsure which are realistically right for you
- Mid careers
You may be:
- questioning whether the career path you’ve built is still the one you want
- asking whether your next move should be progression, a pivot or something more significant
- trying to separate your own ambitions from the expectations of employers, peers or family
- reassessing which skills and experiences you want to keep developing
- thinking differently about work-life balance, motivation and what success means to you now
- wondering how to use the experience and credibility you’ve built to create a more deliberate next move
- Executive / C-suite
You may be:
- asking whether continuing on the same path is really what you want
- considering whether it is time for a different role, second career or transition of purpose
- thinking about how to repurpose your skills and experience in a new way
- reassessing what success and meaning look like at this stage of your career
- considering whether you want to keep progressing, scale back or create a different mix of work and other interests
- deciding how you want to use your experience, time and influence in the next chapter
The Four Axis FrameworkFour core questions.
Four core questions.
Different answers at every stage.
My framework helps you understand where you are now, narrow your options and make more deliberate decisions about what comes next.
What do I want?
Early career
Understand your competencies, the contexts and cultures in which you thrive, and what motivates you. To narrow your options from possible to probable.
Mid-career
Reassess your competencies, context, values and motivations to understand what still fits and what you want to change.
Executive / C-suite
Reflect on how your priorities, motivations and definition of success have evolved, and decide whether you want to continue on the same path or repurpose your experience in new ways.
Why me?
Early career
Build a clearer picture of your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation so you can explain why you are right for the opportunities you want.
Mid-career
Articulate the distinctive value of your experience and show how your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation translate to your next move.
Executive / C-suite
Translate senior-level expertise and credibility into a compelling value proposition for a new context.
How do I get what I want?
Early career
Turn your chosen direction into practical next steps by identifying opportunities, development needs, relationships that can move you forward.
Mid-career
Create a focused action plan that connects what you want with realistic opportunities, networks and people who can help you access them.
Executive / C-suite
Build a deliberate route towards your next chapter by identifying the right opportunities, relationships, positioning and conversations to pursue.
What does success look like for me?
Early career
Decide early what success actually means to you, across your whole life and not just your career, so you set your own measures rather than inherit someone else’s.
Mid-career
Move from measuring success by progression and other people’s milestones to defining it as progress and fulfilment, balanced across all the pillars of your life.
Executive / C-suite
Define success beyond title, money and recognition, in terms of meaning, relationships, contentment and legacy, so that reaching the top brings fulfilment.
| Question | Early career | Mid-career | Executive / C-suite |
|---|---|---|---|
| What do I want? | Understand your competencies, the contexts and cultures in which you thrive, and what motivates you. To narrow your options from possible to probable. | Reassess your competencies, context, values and motivations to understand what still fits and what you want to change. | Reflect on how your priorities, motivations and definition of success have evolved, and decide whether you want to continue on the same path or repurpose your experience in new ways. |
| Why me? | Build a clearer picture of your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation so you can explain why you are right for the opportunities you want. | Articulate the distinctive value of your experience and show how your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation translate to your next move. | Translate senior-level expertise and credibility into a compelling value proposition for a new context. |
| How do I get what I want? | Turn your chosen direction into practical next steps by identifying opportunities, development needs, relationships that can move you forward. | Create a focused action plan that connects what you want with realistic opportunities, networks and people who can help you access them. | Build a deliberate route towards your next chapter by identifying the right opportunities, relationships, positioning and conversations to pursue. |
| What does success look like for me? | Decide early what success actually means to you, across your whole life and not just your career, so you set your own measures rather than inherit someone else’s. | Move from measuring success by progression and other people’s milestones to defining it as progress and fulfilment, balanced across all the pillars of your life. | Define success beyond title, money and recognition, in terms of meaning, relationships, contentment and legacy, so that reaching the top brings fulfilment. |
| Register free | Wednesday 4 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST 4 Nov | Wednesday 11 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST 11 Nov | Wednesday 18 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST 18 Nov |
Outcomes
What will you leave with
Each webinar applies the same methodology to a different stage of your career, helping you leave with greater clarity and a practical way to move forward.
- Early careers
By the end you will have:
- My Four Axis Framework: a simple, practical way to understand who you are today
- greater clarity on your distinctive strengths, the contexts and cultures in which you work best, and what motivates you
- a method for moving from what is possible to what is probable when considering your next move
- a clearer understanding of the opportunities that fit who you are and what you want
- clear steps towards a 90-day plan to test and refine your direction
- a way to start building your value proposition: showing your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation for the opportunities you want
- Mid careers
By the end you will have:
- My Four Axis Framework: a simple, practical way to understand who you are today
- a structured way to reassess your competencies, context, values and motivations at this stage of your career
- greater clarity about what you want to keep, change or develop in your next move
- a way to distinguish between opportunities that are merely possible and those that are realistically probable
- a clearer understanding of your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation for the opportunities you want
- clear steps towards a 90-day plan to test and refine your direction
- Executive / C-suite
By the end you will have:
- My Four Axis Framework: a simple, practical way to understand who you are today
- a practical way to reflect on how your priorities, motivations and definition of success have changed
- greater clarity about whether you want to continue on your current path or repurpose your experience
- a clearer view of which skills, experiences and contexts you want to carry into your next chapter
- a way to articulate your credibility, relevance, fit and motivation beyond your current role or title
- clear steps towards a 90-day plan to test and refine your direction
The session
What we will cover
Each session gives you a structured way to assess where you are now, what you want next and the most realistic route to get there — no matter what stage of your career you are at.
During the session, we’ll explore:
- understanding where you are now
- identifying your strengths and competencies
- understanding the contexts and cultures in which you thrive
- the role of values, culture and motivations in career decisions
- moving from possible options to probable ones
- identifying what you actually want
- developing a compelling value proposition
- credibility, relevance, fit and motivation
- turning ambition into action and achievable next steps
- using networks and relationships to create opportunity
- testing and refining your direction as your career develops
- 30+Years advising and developing talent
- 1,000+Emerging and senior leaders coached
- ICF & EMCCSenior accreditation, individual and team
About me
I’ve spent 30 years navigating my own Next
I’m Julian Lighton, an executive coach, business leader and author of Navigating Your Next. I’m one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches, with more than 30 years’ experience advising, hiring and developing talent.
I’ve served as Chief Strategy Officer at multi-billion dollar public companies, and I’m recognised as a senior professional coach at both individual and team level by the ICF and the EMCC, one of only a small number of people worldwide to hold both distinctions. Over my career I’ve worked as a consultant, general manager, functional leader, strategist and C-suite executive, at organisations including McKinsey & Company and Cisco.
My own career has included multiple reinventions and transitions, giving me first-hand experience of the questions at the heart of this webinar series.
Today I work with professionals and executives navigating their own career and leadership transitions. The framework behind Navigating Your Next has been developed and tested through my work coaching more than 1,000 emerging and senior leaders.
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My book
Get your copy of Navigating Your Next
Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There is my internationally bestselling book. I wrote it to help you define what you really want from your career, and to give you a practical route towards it.
“Careers don’t stall because people lack talent — they stall because they lack clarity. Navigating Your Next provides a highly pragmatic, disciplined, easy to use framework to assess reality, sharpen direction, and act decisively. Bravo! A great read!”
You do not need to have read the book before attending one of the webinars.
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Ready to take the next step to navigating your next?
Choose the webinar that best reflects where you are in your career, then select the live session that works for you.
Early careers
What do you want? Navigating your career in your 20s
Wednesday 4 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST
4 Nov · Register freeMid careers
Navigating your mid-career
Wednesday 11 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST
11 Nov · Register freeExecutive / C-suite
Navigating your next chapter
Wednesday 18 November · 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST
18 Nov · Register free
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Choose the session that most closely reflects the career decisions you are facing now rather than simply your age. Early Careers is designed around establishing direction and career identity. Mid Careers focuses on reassessing an established trajectory and deciding what you want to build on or change. Executive / C-suite is aimed at experienced leaders considering how they want to use their expertise in the next stage of their career.
Career transitions do not happen according to a fixed timetable. If the questions in one webinar resonate more strongly with you, choose that session.
No. Working that out is one of the central purposes of the session.
No. The webinars are relevant whether you are actively considering a move, questioning your current direction or simply want to be more deliberate about the future.
No. Julian will introduce the relevant frameworks during the webinar. If you have already read the book, the session will help you apply the ideas to your own situation.
Yes. The webinar is free to attend, but registration is required and places are limited.
No. Each of the three dates for your career stage covers the same core webinar content, giving you a choice of when to attend.
We will have time for Q&A at the end of the session.
The webinar will be recorded and made available to attendees on-demand after the event.
The webinar is 60 minutes in duration.
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