"Professional Careers by Design"™ is written for those who seek fulfillment and meaning in their professional life and beyond. This book offers a lifelong model for creating a bespoke life and career, one that is aligned with personal values and designed to provide meaning, purpose, and a framework for creating good in the world. "The Professional Careers by Design"™ model has been gleaned from the author's extensive experience as a professional executive coach, and from her own experience of creating a bespoke life and career in academic medicine.

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It’s rare to find everything you need in one place—this book brings together helpful tips, thoughtful exercises, spot-on vignettes, and just overall practical and accessible insights to support your career trajectory. Looking to embrace personal development? This book provides the tools you need to thoughtfully and intentionally live your best personal and professional life.  Raina M. Merchant MD, MSHP, FAHA Professor, Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer - Penn Medicine

This book presents a uniquely straightforward yet deeply personal approach to designing a bespoke professional career, using methods that can be applied in any career situation, be it crisis, opportunity -- or both. During her 12-plus years as a professional executive coach and more than 30 years as a physician leader, Sharon Hull was always looking for a resource like "Professional Careers By Design"™. She never found it, so she decided to write it herself.

"Professional Careers by Design"™ provides a single, one-stop resource for professionals who want to craft a career that aligns with their personal and professional values -- today, tomorrow, and over a lifetime. The key is Sharon's three-part model, created to be approachable, useful, and adaptable for people at any career stage, from freshly out of training to preparing for one final encore. This book outlines Hull's signature approach and provides clear and structured content paired with interactive self-coaching tools, designed for lifelong use.

Sharon Hull is an experienced executive coach and retired family physician with over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and academic leadership. She built a solo, rural private practice; held leadership roles in academic health centers as a division chief, department chair, and assistant dean; all of which positioned her for a meaningful decade-plus career as an executive coach. Sharon founded and led an Executive Coaching Program built for faculty at a major US medical school before retiring from academia to focus full-time on her coaching and consulting practice, which she calls her "encore career." She is a graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (Drexel University School of Medicine) fellowship for women leaders in academic health care. Sharon lives with her family in North Carolina.