Overview
""... I have no hesitation in recommending this book. Its content will inspire and educate you, aid your own professional reflection and enable you to help your clients find their wings and fly off to a life in which they will thrive."" Claire Johnson, RCDP and CDI, NICEC and ICCI Fellow Packed with powerful yet simple coaching activities, reflective questions and real-life coaching outcomes from case studies, this book enables practitioners to foster deeper self-awareness, career alignment and sustainable success within achievers, helping them to unlock their career potential. This definitive guide offers: Actionable framework: the innovative Seven Career Thieves model provides career professionals with a structured approach to identify and address the specific patterns that undermine achiever potential Evidence-based interventions: each chapter equips practitioners with coaching strategies grounded in psychological theories and neurological research, tailored for clients at different career stages Professional development toolkit: contains practical techniques and exercises that career professionals can immediately implement to help clients overcome achievement-related challenges and build sustainable success. This is the indispensable practitioner guide for helping achievers unlock career success.
Full Product Details
Author: Carolyn Parry
Publisher: Trotman Indigo Publishing Limited
Imprint: Trotman
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9781911724759
ISBN 10: 1911724754
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 December 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""In this expertly crafted book, Carolyn Parry shows how she enabled seven achievers to identify and overcome thieves ... such as Perfectionism, Comparison, Approval-Seeking, Overwhelm, Depletion, Disconnection and Burnout ... Rich in research and references, it provides a guide to each thief, its influence in the workplace and effect on individuals depending on their age, gender, neurodivergence, socio-economic status and cultural and ethnicity perspectives. If you work in career development, careers education, executive coaching or HR, investing time in reading this book will definitely be well spent. You may also find that some of the thieves resonate with your own situation and can then utilise the practical strategies for your own self-care and career wellbeing. As someone who worked in the career development sector for forty years, many of which in senior professional roles, I have no hesitation in recommending this book. Its content will inspire and educate you, aid your own professional reflection and enable you to help your clients find their wings and fly off to a life in which they will thrive."" Claire Johnson, RCDP and CDI, NICEC and ICCI Fellow
Author Information
Carolyn Parry BA (Hons), FRSA, FHEA, FIEEP, FCDI, RCDP is a multi-award-winning career and life coach, TEDx speaker, non-exec director, podcaster, author, and the immediate past President, Chair of the Board, and Fellow of the Career Development Institute (CDI). Her background as a professional of over forty years’ standing includes a pivotal mid-life shift from a successful but soul-eroding 17-year management career across property, international software, and defence and tech publishing into career development work after a period of burnout. She spent almost 15 years at Aberystwyth University, where she progressed from trainee careers adviser to careers and employability director and equality champion, before founding Career Alchemy, her career and life coaching practice, in 2015.
