'Professional Careers by Design'? is written for those who seek fulfillment and meaning in their professional life and beyond. This book offers a lifelong model for creating a bespoke life and career, one that is aligned with personal values and designed to provide meaning, purpose, and a framework for creating good in the world. 'The Professional Careers by Design'? model has been gleaned from the author's extensive experience as a professional executive coach, and from her own experience of creating a bespoke life and career in academic medicine.

Sharon Hull is an experienced executive coach and retired family physician with over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and academic leadership. She has built a solo, rural private practice; held leadership roles in academic health centers as a division chief, department chair, and assistant dean; and served as an executive coach. Sharon founded and led an Executive Coaching Program built for faculty at a major US medical school before retiring from academia to focus full-time on her executive coaching and consulting practice, which she calls her 'encore career.' Sharon's professional training includes medical school at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she is a Distinguished Alumna; Family Medicine residency training with the Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Terre Haute, Ind.; a Primary Care Research Fellowship, Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration, and Preventive Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a 2008 graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (Drexel University School of Medicine) fellowship for women leaders in academic health care. Sharon lives with her family in North Carolina.