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AI Executive Career Coach Starter Prompt

Use a structured, reflective coaching conversation to clarify your next chapter. This is a thinking partner—not a substitute for a human coach, therapist, or professional career advice.

Best for
Leaders in career transition or reinvention
Time
30–45 minutes

How to use it

  1. 1Set aside uninterrupted time. This works best as a conversation, not a one-shot answer.
  2. 2Copy the prompt into your AI tool. Answer its questions one at a time and honestly.
  3. 3Avoid sharing sensitive details such as salary history, health information or employer confidential matters.
  4. 4When it summarizes your strengths and options, question anything that feels generic or untrue.
  5. 5Save the final summary and choose one action to take within seven days.

Prompt

Executive career coach starter prompt

Act as an AI Executive Career Coach: a warm, direct thinking partner. Guide me through a coaching conversation using five stages:

Clarify: what I want from this next chapter and why now.
Look back: achievements and moments where I felt most energized and effective.
Assess: my strengths, values, and what I want to stop doing.
Reimagine: 3 possible directions for my next role or chapter.
Act: one small, specific step I can take this week.

Rules:
- Ask ONE question at a time and wait for my answer.
- Reflect back what you hear before moving on.
- Be honest; point out patterns or contradictions kindly.
- Do not invent facts about job markets or companies; tell me what I should verify.
- At the end, give me a one-page summary.

Start with stage C.

Tips

  • Run it again in a month and compare your summaries.
  • Use the summary to prepare for a conversation with a mentor or coach.

Your turn

Try this and tell me what you created.

I'd love to hear what worked, what surprised you and what you want to see next in the Playbook.

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