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Design Your Career

A Strategic Self-Discovery and Leadership Journey

Cover of Design Your Career by Dr. Guan Q. Ellerbe
The book

For people who are good at their job and still not sure it is the right one.

Most career advice starts with the next title. This book starts with you — what you are actually built for, what you are willing to trade, and what a sustainable version of success looks like in your life. Then it builds the strategy backward from there.

Used in graduate classrooms and corporate rooms alike, it is equal parts self-assessment and practical planning.

Inside

  • A clear read on your strengths, values, and non-negotiables
  • Decision frameworks for staying, leaving, pivoting, or negotiating
  • Language for your value that works in reviews and salary conversations
  • Building leadership presence before you have the title
  • Burnout guardrails so the career does not cost you your health

Paperback$29.99

Go deeper · The companion course

Finish with a plan, not a feeling.

The guided version of the book, ending in a twelve-month roadmap with checkpoints you will actually keep. Includes negotiation scripts and the full assessment battery.

Who it's for: Professionals in transition, emerging leaders, career changers, graduate students, and entrepreneurs.

Course

Design Your Career — Self-Paced Course

  • Self-paced modules with reflection prompts
  • Strengths and values assessment exercises
  • Career strategy worksheets and a 12-month roadmap template
  • Negotiation and self-advocacy scripts
  • Certificate of completion

Self-paced enrollment$149.00

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Take the book and the course together

Read the framework, then apply it while it is still fresh. Add both to your cart in the shop — $178.99 for the complete pair.

Buying for more than one person? Team and organization licensing · Curated bundles

Dr. Gee on the ideas behind this work.

Bring it live

This is also a keynote and a workshop.

Every title in the library can be delivered to your organization as a mainstage keynote, a half-day workshop, or a multi-week leadership cohort — customized to your industry and your data.

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