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Coaching a New Professional Identity

Clarity and Agency in a Changing World

Author Aurel Netin

A practical guide for experienced professionals who need to rethink their identity, contribution and direction in a working world reshaped by longer careers, organizational change and artificial intelligence.

Language
ENGLISH
Type
Book
Pages
33
Reading time
Approximately 2 hours
  • coaching
  • professional identity
  • career transition
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • self-awareness
  • accountability
  • professional reinvention
  • artificial intelligence
  • personal development
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About this edition

Professional transition is rarely only a question of skills. It also changes the way people understand their experience, relevance and future contribution. Coaching a New Professional Identity explains how coaching can help experienced professionals separate identity from title, assess their transferable assets, clarify values, test possible directions and act without waiting for complete certainty. The book distinguishes coaching from mentoring, consulting and therapy; examines trust, resistance, emotion, feedback and accountability; and sets clear boundaries for the use of AI in coaching. A practical toolkit provides a session-preparation page, identity map, 90-day experiment, decision journal and coach-selection checklist.

Who it is for

  • Experienced professionals whose roles or industries are changing. Managers and executives preparing for a new professional chapter. Entrepreneurs, advisers and portfolio professionals redefining their

What you will gain

  • A clearer distinction between coaching, mentoring, consulting, training and therapy
  • A method for separating professional identity from a current job title
  • A practical inventory of transferable assets, constraints and market relevance
  • A way to test possible professional directions through limited experiments
  • Better questions for working with resistance, emotion, feedback and uncertainty
  • An ethical checklist for using artificial intelligence in coaching
  • A repeatable personal development system and a practical 90-day experiment

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction

    • Chapter 1 — Identity Becomes a Coaching Question

      • Chapter 2 — What Coaching Is and Is Not

        • Chapter 3 — The Coaching Contract and the Quality of Trust

          • Chapter 4 — Reading the Present Before Designing the Future

            • Chapter 5 — Values Roles and Possible Selves

              • Chapter 6 — Goals as Hypotheses and Experiments

                • Chapter 7 — The Conversation That Changes Thinking

                  • Chapter 8 — Resistance Emotion and Uncertainty

                    • Chapter 9 — Feedback Accountability and Learning

                      • Chapter 10 — Mentoring Networks and the Social Side of Identity

                        • Chapter 11 — Coaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

                          • Chapter 12 — A Personal Development System

                            • Conclusion

                              • Practical Toolkit

                                • Notes and Selected Reading

                                  • About the Author