Executive Portfolio Life: Strategies to Maximize and Leverage Your Career Equity

Most executives do a terrible job of career planning. If this is you, welcome to the club.This book will enable you to solve that problem, and help you gain a clear vision for yourfuture, all the way through to the place where you are no longer working a full-time role. Icall this Portfolio Life. More on this later.Executives are very unique when it comes to career planning. I learned that in 1987 withmy first client, John Paget. He was the CEO of Intelogic Trace, a 4,000-employeecompany providing computer, telecommunications and other electronic equipmentinstallations and support services, with IBM as one of its biggest customers. At that time,I was CEO of MAI, which I later sold to Organizational Leadership and Development. Wewere a boutique organizational design and development (OD) consultancy hired byIntelogic Trace to do team building and change management. I had never heard ofexecutive career coaching before but had been experimenting with our own brand ofexecutive leadership coaching in this brand-new industry called executive coaching.