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Julian Lighton

Executive Leadership Coach

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Julian Lighton is one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches and the author of Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There . He has more than 30 years’ experience advising, hiring, and developing talent and was a Chief strategy officer at $4 billion revenue public companies. Julian is one of only four hundred coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at the individual and team level by both the ICF and EMCC, and is a chartered director from the UK’s Institute of Directors.

Julian Lighton is one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches and the author of Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There. He has more than 30 years’ experience advising, hiring, and developing talent and was a Chief strategy officer at $4 billion revenue public companies. Julian is one of only four hundred coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at the individual and team level by both the ICF and EMCC, and is a chartered director from the UK’s Institute of Directors.

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