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Make Your Own Map
By Kathryn Bishop
“This book is simply refreshing with practical frameworks and models to assist you to navigate the different phases in your career.”
Derinda Brown, Director, Mastercard, Asia Pacific
Board Talk
By Kathryn Bishop & Gillian Camm
"A wise, accessible and energising book and an invaluable handbook for Board chairs and members at all levels, and those aspiring to Board roles."
Dame Shan Morgan, NHS Foundation Trust Chair
What if you could design your own route to a successful working life?
There’s no such thing as a standard path to career success. You have your own definition of what success means to you, and you have to find your own route. This book will help you to do just that – to make your own map.
There is a tried-and-tested way to navigate through your working life: borrow from corporate strategy, and re-purpose the approaches which organizations use so that they work for you. Businesses face the same challenges in using their resources to operate successfully and their strategy tools can help you too.
Drawing on a decade of teaching and coaching at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, this book is packed with practical ideas, along with examples and exercises. Make Your Own Map will help you to develop a resilient strategy for your career – whatever your starting point.
About The BookThere is a tried-and-tested way to navigate through your working life: borrow from corporate strategy, and re-purpose the approaches which organizations use so that they work for you. Businesses face the same challenges in using their resources to operate successfully and their strategy tools can help you too.
Drawing on a decade of teaching and coaching at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, this book is packed with practical ideas, along with examples and exercises. Make Your Own Map will help you to develop a resilient strategy for your career – whatever your starting point.
Make Your Own Map will help you to
1. Assess where you are now
2. Define your ideal future at work
3. Progress from where you are now to where you want to be
Book Reviews
Bevis Watts, Chief Executive Officer, Triodos Bank
“…a very valuable book with practical tools to both help individual board members and boards…to rise to the growing challenges on organizations…”
“This is a very valuable book with a practical tools to both help individual board members and boards prompt challenging topic conversations, and rise to the growing challenges on organisations in a new era, where purpose, sustainability and inclusion need to be central.”
NetGalley reviewer
“…a must-read playbook”
“…dense with information, the book breaks down complex board governance into actionable conversations across stakeholders that any director, trustee, or governor should have in their toolkit to ensure their board achieves oversight goals. For board members seeking to uplevel their governance conversations, this is a must-read playbook.”
Jhumar Johnson, Director, Vice Chancellor’s Office, The Open University
“Her book carries the same trademark. Teacher, mentor, friend, colleague and coach”
Kathryn Bishop is a tour de force and learning from her and her experience is a privilege. She brings real-life perspectives to her teaching and I have found her to be relevant, balanced and empathetic to all points of view while helping to shape the individual story and actions. Her book carries the same trademark. Teacher, mentor, friend, colleague and coach – all wrapped into one for the best advice and practical strategies for YOU.
Hayley Monks, Director, Think Inspire & Create Ltd
“Make your own map is a companion style of book for women wanting to chart their career path.”
Make your own map is a companion style of book for women wanting to chart their career path. I can imagine in years to come hundreds of women with tatty worn copies in handbags everywhere, like a trusted friend, as the book is used repeatedly to refresh, remind and re-discover fantastic tools that helped them map their personal success story. It has helped me and I have relished reading it.
Robyn Tingley, CEO, Glasssky Inc
“A gamechanger! Practical, easy-to-follow, and 100% customizable to where I was in my life.”
A gamechanger! Practical, easy-to-follow, and 100% customizable to where I was in my life. This book will help any woman navigate the next steps in her career with clarity and focus. Kathryn Bishop understands the many roles that women juggle and why they need a book just for them. Her advice is based on years of research and practical experience coaching women on their careers. You can apply corporate strategy techniques to your life and ambitions, and this book shows you how.
Sarah Laessig, Portfolio Non-Executive Director
“Straightforward, easy to follow, and just the right mix of the strategic and the tactical.”
What a fantastic guide to plotting and navigating your career. Straightforward, easy to follow, and just the right mix of the strategic and the tactical. As our working lives get longer and many of us will have more than one career, this guide will help (any/every) woman plot her course. Having a career map will ensure that no matter the detour, one will always know that a temporary setback is not a dead-end, and be able to navigate a way through and continue on the path to one’s goals. That’s a very powerful thing to be able to do. The examples of other women’s journeys in the book are inspirational and make it real.
Amy Young, Founder and CEO, Redefine Possibility and former head of global Partnershops, Google
“I found the book provided examples so that you don't feel alone in this balancing act of life.”
This book is simply refreshing with practical frameworks and models to assist you to navigate the different phases in your career. This process will ensure you come to a resolution about what success looks like for you and the steps that you need to take to get there. I found the book provided examples so that you don’t feel alone in this balancing act of life. This book will certainly be a go to for me and having Kathryn Bishop explaining the process is like listening to your best friend.
Jan Cameron, Civil Service Commisioner
“This book is packed with clear guidance, useful exercises and thought-provoking case studies.”
Whether you are lost, having to re-route because of an obstacle or just checking you are on the right path to reach your destination, everyone needs a map. This book is packed with clear guidance, useful exercises and thought-provoking case studies which are particularly designed for women managing their busy lives and juggling the multiple demands on their time.
Phyllida Hancock, Senior Programme Director, Olivier Mythodrama
“This book is simply refreshing with practical frameworks and models to assist you to navigate the different phases in your career.”
This book is simply refreshing with practical frameworks and models to assist you to navigate the different phases in your career. This process will ensure you come to a resolution about what success looks like for you and the steps that you need to take to get there. I found the book provided examples so that you don’t feel alone in this balancing act of life. This book will certainly be a go to for me and having Kathryn Bishop explaining the process is like listening to your best friend.
Dr Katherine Leivesley, Managing Counsel, Kingfisher PLC.
“Make Your Own Map is an absolute gift - to yourself, to your best friends, to your mentees.”
Make Your Own Map is an absolute gift – to yourself, to your best friends, to your mentees. It is the guide I’ve being searching for when trying to help others define their journey and their destination. Kathryn Bishop’s application of corporate strategy at an individual level not only facilitates an effective, adaptable and practicable strategy for you, it also details the real-world implementation and experimentation necessary to realise your strategic purpose. Applicable to all, but mindful of the particular work-home challenges women may face during the evolution of their career, this is a guide to read with relish – and revisit!
Derinda Brown, Director, Mastercard, Asia Pacific
“Having Kathryn Bishop explaining the process is like listening to your best friend.”
This book is simply refreshing with practical frameworks and models to assist you to navigate the different phases in your career. This process will ensure you come to a resolution about what success looks like for you and the steps that you need to take to get there. I found the book provided examples so that you don’t feel alone in this balancing act of life. This book will certainly be a go to for me and having Kathryn Bishop explaining the process is like listening to your best friend.
