Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice, 2nd Edition

A practical and inspiring guide to supporting individuals in navigating their career journeys with creativity, confidence, and purpose. This updated second edition blends theory with hands-on strategies, offering coaches and practitioners fresh ways to help clients shape meaningful, fulfilling work lives.

Responding to today’s global challenges and the growing importance of mental wellbeing in career development, this edition expands on contemporary career theories and coaching methodologies. It demonstrates how imagination, metaphor, and reflective exercises can unlock new perspectives for clients, empowering them to move forward with confidence and authenticity.

Prized by practitioners for its practical approach, the book links theory to practice through rich case studies and examples of how to use creative questions and techniques in real coaching conversations. It is the only book to cover the Creative Career Coaching model, now widely adopted across the UK.

• Practical and inspiring guide for career navigation.
• Blends theory with hands-on strategies.
• Updated second edition addresses global challenges and mental wellbeing.
• Expands on contemporary career theories and coaching methodologies.
• Utilizes imagination, metaphor, and reflective exercises.
• Includes rich case studies and practical examples.
• Covers the unique Creative Career Coaching model.

This book will inspire career coaches, careers advisers, counsellors, educators, and HR professionals seeking to enrich their practice with creative approaches. It is equally valuable for students of career development and coaching, offering theoretical grounding and practical tools to inspire transformative conversations with clients facing change, uncertainty, and complex challenges.

• Author: Liane Hambly, Ciara Bomford
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: September 7, 2026
• Edition: 2nd
• Language: English
• Print Length: 252 pages
• ISBN-10: 1041022417
• ISBN-13: 978-1041022411
• Item Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 16.99 x 1.45 x 24.41 cm

This essential resource provides the theoretical grounding and practical tools needed to facilitate transformative career conversations.