Meet the Author: Will Donald

Careers rarely follow a specific path. Economic shifts, technological disruption, health challenges, and personal transitions can change the conditions in which clients build their working lives, and practitioners need tools that help them respond with confidence.

Career Coaching Through Changing Conditions brings together Sustainable Career Ecosystem Theory, the Employability Capital Growth Model, and Weather as a Career Metaphor into an integrated model, alongside 20 international case studies across 15 chapters.


Key learning outcomes
 

• Understand why we need another metaphor.
• Explain the integrated model that underpins the book.
• Consider ways to use the metaphor in practice.

Audience

Anyone who supports clients in schools, colleges, universities, organisations or private practice. Employability and student support staff. HR and learning and development professionals. Researchers interested in bridging theory and practice.

Speaker

Professor William E. Donald is a Visiting Professor of Sustainable Careers & Inclusive Practice at the University of Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Career Development International and was recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% of Scientists in 2024, 2025, and 2026. His research centres on sustainable careers, employability, and inclusion, including neurodivergent careers. He developed the Sustainable Career Ecosystem Theory, Employability Capital Growth Model, and Weather as a Career Metaphor.

This session supports the following CPD competencies:

•     Career Development Theory
•     Career Development Practice
•     Professional Practice, Values, and Ethics