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Beyond Ambition: What Now? Designing Life After Success  

Every leader who reaches the summit eventually asks the same question, quietly, rarely out loud: what now? Jackie Lyons asked it too, after decades spent building the career that was supposed to answer it. She has sat on boards, testified before the SEC, and led an organization through an acquisition that eliminated ninety percent of its workforce in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. None of it answered the question. Beyond Ambition is the book she wrote once she realized the answer wasn't a bigger achievement. It was a different kind of question entirely.

With a foreword by a former Microsoft executive and endorsements from a former CFO of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the U.S. Air Force, and the CEO of SailPoint, the book is part memoir, part practical framework, for leaders who have already reached the level most careers never approach, and are now facing the harder question underneath it.

The book's central argument: life is not a ladder with a single destination. It is a mountain range. Reaching one summit was never the end of the climb, it simply reveals the next one. Success happens on the peaks. Growth happens in the valleys.

Who This Book Is For  

  • Board members and C-suite leaders at the world's largest organizations, navigating what comes after reaching the top
  • High-achieving executives who have hit the goal that was supposed to answer everything, and quietly found it didn't
  • Founders and operators reconsidering what comes after an exit, an acquisition, or a career-defining milestone
  • Leaders responsible for the next generation of talent, seeking a framework for sustained growth rather than a single peak

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