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🎧 Navigating Your Next: Career Planning with Julian Lighton
Podcast Motivation / PodCast / Jun 18, 2026 / Posted by Julian Lighton / 4

🎧 Navigating Your Next: Career Planning with Julian Lighton

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Executive coach Julian Lighton, author of Navigating Your Next and a former McKinsey associate partner, says the average professional spends roughly 90,000 hours — a third of their life — on their career, so the single most valuable move is to stop drifting and decide what you actually want before circumstances decide for you. In this Expert Insight Interview, Lighton walks through his practical seven-step framework for clarifying your goals and building a confident path to reach them.

Topics covered:

  • How do you figure out what you actually want from your career?
  • What are the four unavoidable career transitions everyone faces?
  • Why can’t you reach a big career goal on your own?
  • How do you map where you stand using competence, context, culture, and mindset?
  • What is the real cost of success — and what makes it worth it?
  • How do you actually start when you feel stuck?

Ready to navigate your next move? Explore Julian Lighton’s framework and book a consultation at julianlighton.com.

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About Author

Julian Lighton is the author of Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Navigating-Your-Next-Discover-Career/dp/B0G38WF3DF) and one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches, helping individuals and organizations navigate what’s next. He has more than 30 years of 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 Master 's-level in Negotiation from Harvard University, and is a Chartered Director by the Royal Institute of Directors. Julian is one of only 400 coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at both the individual and team levels by both the ICF and EMCC.

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About Author

Julian Lighton is the author of Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Navigating-Your-Next-Discover-Career/dp/B0G38WF3DF) and one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches, helping individuals and organizations navigate what’s next. He has more than 30 years of 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 Master 's-level in Negotiation from Harvard University, and is a Chartered Director by the Royal Institute of Directors. Julian is one of only 400 coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at both the individual and team levels by both the ICF and EMCC.

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