Julian Lighton

Julian Lighton is one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches, helping individuals and organizations navigate what’s next.

For 30 years, Julian has been obsessed by why some people are successful in their careers and others are not. 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 on decades of his own personal career success, close observation and collaboration with of many of the worlds most successful executives, being a hiring manager of hundreds of employees, and rigorous field research as a coach of over a thousand coachees towards career success: Navigating Your Next offers a rigorously tested, pragmatic seven step framework for professionals pursuing career success and finding their‘Ikigai’ (reason for being).

Julian was a Chief Strategy Officer at four, billion-dollar revenue, public companies, an associate partner for McKinsey & Company, and a senior global sales and marketing executive at two Fortune 100 companies (Hitachi and Cisco). He holds a BA and MA in Law from Oxford University, a Masters in Negotiation from Harvard University, is a Chartered Director by the Royal Institute of Directors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Julian is one of only four hundred coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional at the individual and team level by both the ICF and EMCC.