The Career Design Map

Challenge Convention & Create the Career You Really Want

ABout The Book

Go to these schools. Join these professions. Stay in your unrewarding job. Keep your head down. Climb the corporate ladder.

This old school, step-by-step career advice isn’t just limiting and unfulfilling—it’s clearly no longer working for today’s rising talent.

With entire industries being upended and once-lucrative jobs falling victim to massive layoffs, you know you need to be highly adaptable. At the same time, you rightly want to act with intention and purpose rather than letting the wind take you where it will.

What, then, are you supposed to do? That’s why I created the Career Design Map.

In this concise yet powerful book, you’ll discover:

  • Where you currently are on the Career Design Map

  • Which of the “Meaningful Four” career types (Contributor, Go-Getter, Expert, or Executive) you want to pursue

  • How to avoid the “Dangerous Seas” of Invisibility, Arrogance, Disengagement, and Burnout

  • Strategic considerations and practical exercises to begin the hard work of creating the career you really want

Book cover for The Career Design Map: Challenge Convention & Create the Career You Really Want, A Brief Guide for Rising Leaders

Meet the Author

Dan Freehling is a leadership and career coach and the founder of Contempus Leadership LLC. He partners with fellow rising leaders directly and through forward-looking organizations seeking to develop their leadership pipeline. Dan deeply understands his clients’ challenges and informs his practice with substantial experience and education in the latest in organizational leadership and coaching.

He has led highly rated, multimillion-dollar organizational and leadership development contracts, overseen a worldwide leadership coaching program, and personally coached purpose-driven leaders at the manager, director, and vice president levels.

Dan is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified coach. He holds an MA in Organizational Leadership & Learning from the George Washington University, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a BA in International Relations and Political Science from Boston University.