The Strategic Adviser
Who this is for:
Experienced technical professionals who want to go beyond executing tasks and become trusted advisers. If you feel that your expertise isn’t translating into influence or that your career progression has stalled, this path will help you design a new trajectory. The Accelerate Your Technical Career guide notes that mastering soft skills, building an influential network, and crafting a compelling personal brand are essential for technical professionals who want to stand out and lead. Meanwhile, Reinvent at Mid‑Career is aimed at those who feel stuck, burned out, or uncertain about their next move and want to repurpose their skills for new opportunities.
The transformation:
From an expert doer to a decision‑shaping adviser (and future‑ready leader). You’ll shift from executing others’ plans to framing problems, shaping options, and guiding strategic decisions.
What you’ll change:
- Improve judgment: Develop the critical thinking and decision‑making skills that distinguish advisers from implementers. The Accelerate guide emphasises essential soft skills—communication, collaboration, time management, and critical thinking—so you become a sought‑after team player.
- Frame problems strategically: Learn to reframe technical challenges into business questions, present clear options, and articulate trade‑offs. The guide teaches you how to craft an impactful personal brand and a network that connects you to game‑changing opportunities.
- Lead decisions: Build confidence to propose recommendations with clear options and risk considerations. The Reinvent guide shows how to audit your skills, uncover market needs, and design offers that clients and companies want.
- Plan your trajectory: Prepare for career transitions with tools to set goals, negotiate offers, and seize growth opportunities, and adopt a portfolio mindset that blends stable income with passion projects and scalable products.
This transformative path includes:
- Soft‑skill mastery and strategic networking: Frameworks for developing communication, collaboration, and critical‑thinking skills, and practical advice to build networks that elevate your visibility and influence.
- Personal brand and credibility: Guidance on crafting an authoritative professional identity that positions you as a trusted adviser.
- Decision‑making and problem‑framing tools: Techniques to structure decisions with clear options, trade‑offs, and risk assessments.
- Career pivots and reinvention: Exercises to repurpose your skills, adopt a portfolio mindset, and design offers for new markets.
- AI inside: Use AI to explore scenarios, build decision briefs, and stress‑test your thinking before presenting it.
Books for the Strategic Adviser
Accelerate Your Technical Career
Actionable Strategies, Tips, and Resources.
This comprehensive guide provides technical professionals like you with indispensable insights, strategies, and resources tailored specifically for the dynamic and ever-evolving world of technology.
How to Do The Hard Things
Learn How to Win Over Procrastination and Get Things Done
Procrastination is the thief of time, but with the right tools and mindset, it can be overcome. In “How to Do The Hard Things,” Phil Charles provides a practical framework for understanding and conquering the impulse to put off important tasks.
Through relatable examples and actionable techniques, you’ll learn how to:
- Clarify your priorities and create a plan for success
- Break goals down into manageable steps
- Stay motivated and build momentum
- Handle setbacks and get back on track
- Develop greater confidence and satisfaction in your work
Whether you’re a technical professional, creative, entrepreneur, or anyone else struggling to make meaningful progress, this book offers a clear path forward. Stop letting procrastination hold you back from reaching your full potential and start achieving your most important goals, one hard thing at a time.
Reinvent at Mid-Career
Turn Your Existing Skills into New Work You’ll Actually Want
Are you tired of climbing a career ladder that no longer leads to fulfillment? Do you feel stuck, burned out, or uncertain about your next professional move, even after years of building real expertise?
Reinvent at Mid-Career is your action-oriented roadmap to a thriving portfolio career built on your own terms.
This practical guide shows you how to:
- Escape career stagnation without starting over—by repackaging your most valuable skills, experience, and networks for today’s dynamic world of work.
- Adopt the portfolio mindset and blend stable income streams with growth opportunities, passion projects, and scalable products.
- Audit your unique assets, uncover market needs, and design offers that clients and companies want now.
- Launch pilot projects and build a credible new professional narrative—before you risk your security.
- Follow a proven 90-day reinvention plan to confidently pivot, experiment, and create meaningful work and lasting autonomy.
Next-Level Productivity
Work Smarter, Deliver Faster, Create More Value
Are you overwhelmed by digital distractions and relentless communication?
Do traditional productivity methods leave you stuck in endless to-do lists, rigid time blocks, or the burnout of hustle culture?
Next-Level Productivity is your essential guide for thriving in today’s hyper-connected world.
Written specifically for professionals who want lasting results, not just quick fixes, this book shows you how to build a personalized productivity system that balances digital tools, evidence-based strategies, and human focus.
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