Career Pivot Blueprint: A 10-Week Plan to Design Your Next Chapter

CHARLES KING

Jul 2026 · CHARLES KING

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Career Pivot Blueprint is a detailed, practical guide to The Career Pivot Blueprint for Mid-Career Professionals for readers who want a clear path from understanding the topic to using it confidently in real situations. The book is designed as a structured learning companion rather than a shallow overview: it introduces the core ideas, explains why they matter, then develops them through realistic examples, guided practice, scenario-based explanations, and common mistakes to avoid. Readers are taken step by step from foundational concepts into everyday applications, with each chapter building on the previous one so the material feels progressive, usable, and easy to revisit. The main areas of focus include The Pivot Imperative, The Career Audit, The Values and Strengths Map, Three Pivots That Worked, The Vision Workshop, The Skill Gap Analysis, The Bridge-Building Strategy, Top 7 Pivot Pitfalls, Network Mapping, The Personal Brand Sprint, giving the book a concrete learning arc that moves from orientation and confidence-building to applied communication, problem solving, and independent practice. The writing style is direct, supportive, and accessible, making the book suitable for self-study, classroom reinforcement, professional development, or personal improvement. It emphasizes practical understanding over abstract theory, so readers can immediately connect the lessons to conversations, decisions, habits, and challenges they are likely to face outside the page. By the end of the book, readers should have not only a stronger grasp of the subject, but also a collection of repeatable strategies, useful language patterns, mental models, and practical routines they can continue applying after they finish reading.

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About the author

Charles King has spent more than two decades helping professionals navigate career transitions as a senior career coach, organizational development consultant, and corporate leadership trainer. He has worked with individuals at every stage of their careers, from early professionals struggling to find their footing to executives making the transition from corporate roles to entrepreneurship, board service, or encore careers.

King began his own career as a high school teacher before moving into corporate learning and development at a Fortune 500 financial services firm. He went on to earn a master's degree in organizational psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and founded his own coaching practice in 2012. Since then, he has worked with over two thousand clients across industries including technology, healthcare, finance, education, and the nonprofit sector.

His writing on career strategy has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the creator of the Pivot Path Framework, a structured methodology that has been adopted by several corporate career development programs and university graduate-career centers.

King lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. When he is not coaching or writing, he spends his time trail running, reading literary fiction, and volunteering with a nonprofit that helps displaced professionals rebuild their careers.

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