Description

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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 "Personal 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 the 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 use over a lifetime.

About the Author

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Sharon Hull is an experienced executive coach and retired family physician with over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and academic leadership. She has built a solo, rural private practice; held leadership roles in academic health centers as a division chief, department chair, and assistant dean; and served 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 executive coaching and consulting practice, which she calls her "encore career." Sharon's professional training includes medical school at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she is a Distinguished Alumna; Family Medicine residency training with the Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Terre Haute, Ind.; a Primary Care Research Fellowship, Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration, and Preventive Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a 2008 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.