Designing Your Life

January 29, 2019

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Announcing Our Third Coaching Certification Program March 2nd-3rd!

By Savannah Peterson | Coaching, Life Design Community | No Comments

Thanks to the continued enthusiasm of our coaching community, we are excited to announce our third Coaching Certification Program! It will be held in the Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco March 2nd-3rd. Breakfast is at 8:00am Saturday with an 8:30am...

January 16, 2019

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Have You Ever Thought of Taking a Break from Your Current Life?

By Susan Burnett | DYLW Featured, Life Design Community, Uncategorized, Women | No Comments

When Jacqueline Kennedy attended the Designing Your Life for Women Workshop, she was two months into a one-year sabbatical-style career break she had taken to focus on her daughter who was in her last year of high school. Having made...

January 4, 2019

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26 of the Most Inspiring Books Everyone Should Read: Inc. Magazine

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Life Book News | No Comments

Inc. Magazine recently compiled a list of 26 inspiring books that everyone should read (and why.) We were thrilled to find ourselves at number seven, and in such excellent company. Check out the full list here.

January 4, 2019

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Failure IS an Option: The Good Men Project

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Life Book News, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

Laurie Buchanan, PhD. recently published an important reminder for The Good Men Project titled, Failure IS an Option. She opens by referencing Designing Your Life. "Stanford University’s most popular class, Designing Your Life, is taught by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. In...

December 10, 2018

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New York Magazine: The 8 Best Books for Career Advice, According to Executive Coaches

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Life Book News | No Comments

New York Magazine author Maxine Builder asked a well-curated group of expert executive coaches what their favorite career advice books are. We are flattered to find ourselves on her list, especially given the unique backgrounds of authors Bill Burnett and...

December 4, 2018

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Anu Rao: Honesty and Action

By Kathy Davies | DYLW Featured, Life Design Community, Women | No Comments

A few weeks after joining us at a DYL for Women workshop, Anu Rao of Cambridge, Massachusetts shared this reflection on her DYL experience... "Last month I joined 50 women at the DYL for Women workshop in New York, where...

December 4, 2018

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Mary Charles Blakebrough – Creating a Book Reference Guide for Her Daughter – and the World!

By Kathy Davies | DYLW Featured, Life Design Community, Women | No Comments

Mary Charles read Designing Your Life, and began doing the exercises on her own in service of designing the next phase of her life and career. She found mindmapping particularly helpful and in fact breaks out the pirate cocktail napkin example...

November 29, 2018

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5 Tips for Law Firms From Two Expert Design Thinkers

By Savannah Peterson | Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

Designing Your Life authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans were invited down to New Orleans for the 2018 Clio Cloud Conference recently. They offered tips for attendees on how to apply Design Thinking to their legal careers. This recap post...

November 8, 2018

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Stuff We Read: “Designing Your Life” Community Post on The Juggle

By Savannah Peterson | Life Design Community, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

Big thanks to our new community members, Alyssa and Sarah for their feature of Designing Your Life on their blog, The Juggle! The pair had many interesting things to say about their experiences reading the book. They both got the...

October 26, 2018

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The DYL Group Announces the Second Certification Workshop for Life and Career Coaches!

By Savannah Peterson | Coaching, Training, workshop | No Comments

Many life and career coaches have discovered Designing Your Life through the publication of our book in September of 2016. Many have told us that they want to add the DYL ideas, tools, and exercises to their coaching practice, and they...

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