The Official Companion Guide
Climbing Your Career Tree:
The Leader's Companion Guide
Reading the book gives you the framework. This workbook is where you do the work.
More than 160 pages of guided exercises, honest self-assessments, and career mapping tools that walk you through every phase of your Career Tree.
What You Get
Every chapter of the book has a matching set of tools here, built to move you from reading about growth to actually planning it.
Career Tree Snapshot
An opening self-assessment that shows you exactly where you stand today, before you turn another page.
Draw Your Career Tree
A guided mapping exercise with write-in prompts and a full tree diagram to fill in with your own roots, trunk, and branches.
Chapter Self-Assessments
Checkbox inventories for every stage, from planting the seed through bearing fruit, so you can name your strengths and your gaps.
Learning Points from David
The lessons from 36 years of executive leadership, pulled out of the book and set beside the work they apply to.
Reflection and Commitment Pages
Numbered reflection questions and a written commitment block at the close of each chapter to hold you to what you decided.
The 90-Day Action Plan
A closing framework that turns everything you worked through into specific moves with dates attached.