Navigate Your Career

Increase your impact in your next job and accelerate your career with straightforward and proven workplace techniques

In Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions, career, organization, and leadership development expert Shveta Miglani delivers an original and exciting new guide to navigating your career. With anecdotes and real-life experiences from leaders at Amazon, the Boston Celtics, Mastercard and Adobe, the author walks you through seven key ways you can make your professional journey more rewarding and successful at every stage.

You'll find easy-to-implement advice you can use today to help you realize your work goals, including setting appropriate, realistic, and measurable goals to working with your organization's proprietary technology as a new hire. You'll discover how to learn about the business of your new company, understand your firm's culture, and how to meet your professional and personal development benchmarks.

Inside the book:

• How to develop and maintain a sense of authenticity in the workplace that allows you to thrive without pretense
• Strategies for navigating remote, on-site, and hybrid work roles, and how to handle the unique challenges that come with each type of position
• Ways to build strong relationships with people at your new job, including how to find the right mentors

Perfect for professionals stepping into a new role at a new company, Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions is also a must-read book for every ambitious person—at any stage of their career—who wants to maximize the impact they have on their organization and make their professional lives more rewarding.

Prologue xv

Introduction 1

1 People 35

2 Goal Setting and Feedback 75

3 Company Processes 91

4 Navigating Technology in Your New Role 115

5 Know the Business 129

6 The Company Culture 143

7 Keep Learning 173

Bibliography 195

Acknowledgment 201

About the Author 205

Index 207

SHVETA MIGLANI, PhD, is a seasoned leadership development and talent management executive with over 22 years of experience guiding and transforming human resources teams. Her expertise spans HR strategy, organizational development, and leadership coaching—helping companies foster a culture of growth, innovation, and long-term success. With a deep understanding of how to drive meaningful and lasting change, Shveta has been instrumental in shaping workplaces that empower professionals and enhance business outcomes.

In Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions, Shveta Miglani, experienced career, organization, and leadership development expert, delivers an original and inspirational new guide to navigating your career. The book is filled with anecdotes and real-world experiences from leaders at well-known companies, including Amazon, Zapier, Mastercard, and Adobe.

Dr. Miglani explains seven key strategies you can use to make your professional journey more rewarding and successful at every stage. She demonstrates how to learn about the business of your new company, understand your firm’s culture, and how to meet your professional and personal development benchmarks.

Navigate Your Career walks you through how to develop and maintain a sense of authenticity in the workplace that allows you to thrive without pretense. It provides useful, hands-on techniques for navigating remote, on-site, and hybrid work roles, enabling you to overcome the unique challenges posed by each type of position.

You’ll learn to build strong relationships with people at your new job and discover how to identify the right mentors. The book offers easy-to-implement advice you can use today to help you realize your work goals and set appropriate, realistic, and measurable objectives as you begin a new role in a new company.

Ideal for professionals and leaders transitioning into a new role, Navigate Your Career is an essential read for ambitious individuals at any stage of their career looking to amplify their impact within their organization.

PRAISE FOR NAVIGATE YOUR CAREER

“A practical and insightful guide for anyone stepping into a new role. This book offers valuable strategies that can help you start strong and succeed with confidence.”

—Marc Effron, President, Talent Strategy Group and author of One Page Talent Management

“Shveta’s expertise as a leader in learning and development shines in this relatable and practical career guide—perfect for professionals at all stages.”
—Trena Minudri, Chief Learning Officer, Coursera

“With Navigate Your Career, Dr. Shveta Miglani has crafted a comprehensive roadmap to success. Her deep understanding of career development and her inspirational guidance make this book a must-read.”
—Siva Sivaram, President and CEO, QuantumScape

“Whether you are well-established in your career or just getting started, Dr. Shveta Miglani’s Navigate Your Career serves as an indispensable guide for thriving in a new role. Through deeply researched insights and relatable personal stories from those who have been through it, Miglani masterfully unpacks the hard truths of navigating career transitions, offering readers practical advice and recipes for success.”
—Drew Henry, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Ecosystems, ARM

“Bringing together case studies, interdisciplinary wisdom, her own personal examples and experience with a wealth of diverse company cultures, Dr. Miglani weaves all the available angles of insight into a very holistic and complete approach to career strategy. This is useful to both those contemplating a career move, as well as to those engaged in providing career coaching to others.”
—Brian DeBar, Talent Management Director, Nvidia

“Taking on a new role is both exciting and intimidating, but you don’t need to do it alone. Read this book and have career expert Dr. Shveta Miglani alongside you with proven tools and practical advice every step of the way.”
—Chris Ernst, PhD, Chief Learning Officer, Workday

“With Navigate Your Career, Dr. Shveta Miglani shares 7 practical strategies to take charge of your success. Her insightful stories give every reader a clear way to evaluate, define and achieve success at every step of their career.”
—Humera Malik Shahid, Vice President of Talent Development and Inclusion, Western Digital

"This book is like having a personal executive coach in your corner. Dr. Miglani distills decades of experience into a practical, empowering roadmap for navigating change, building influence, and accelerating success in any organization."
— Pat Wadors, Chief Human Resources Officer at Intuitive and author of Unlock Your Leadership Story

"A practical and insightful guide for anyone stepping into a new role. This book offers valuable strategies that can help you start strong and succeed with confidence.”
—Marc Effron, President, Talent Strategy Group & author of One Page Talent Management

"Shveta’s expertise as a leader in Learning & Development shines in this relatable and practical career guide—perfect for professionals at all stages."
—Trena Minudri, Chief Learning Officer, Coursera

"With Navigate Your Career, Dr. Shveta Miglani has crafted a comprehensive roadmap to success. Her deep understanding of career development and her inspirational guidance make this book is a must-read."
—Siva Sivaram, President and CEO, QuantumSpace

“Whether you are well-established in your career or just getting started, Dr. Shveta Miglani’s Navigate Your Career serves as an indispensable guide for thriving in a new role. Through deeply researched insights and relatable personal stories from those who have been through it, Miglani masterfully unpacks the hard truths of navigating career transitions, offering readers practical advice and recipes for success.”
—Drew Henry, Executive Vice President Strategy and Ecosystems, ARM

“Taking on a new role is both exciting and intimidating, but you don’t need to do it alone. Read this book and have career expert Dr. Shveta Miglani alongside you with proven tools and practical advice every step of the way.”
—Chris Ernst, Ph.D. Chief Learning Officer, Workday

"With Navigate Your Career, Dr. Shveta Miglani shares 7 practical strategies to take charge of your success. Her insightful stories give every reader a clear way to evaluate, define and achieve success at every step of their career."
—Humera Malik Shahid, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer and VP, Talent Development, Intuit, Inc

“Bringing together case studies, interdisciplinary wisdom, her own personal examples and experience with a wealth of diverse company cultures, Dr. Miglani weaves the all the available angles of insight into a very holistic and complete approach to career strategy. This is useful to both those contemplating a career move, as well as to those engaged in providing career coaching to others.”
—Brian DeBar, Talent Management Director, Nvidia

“This book is a must-read for anyone stepping into a new role. Dr. Shveta Miglani masterfully combines compelling storytelling with practical advice, delivering career lessons that will empower you to hit the ground running and achieve success”.
—Lorraine K. Lee, Keynote Speaker and author of Unforgettable Presence

“Shveta Miglani is the real deal. Shveta has spent 20 years in and around HR in one of the roughest, toughest environments for “People” - High tech in silicon valley. She’s seen dozens of high potentials succeed…and fail. Many smart people simply do their jobs and let their career manage them. Listen and learn from one of the rock stars in high tech talent management. She can help YOU manage and OWN career!"
—Jack B.Keenan, Founder and Chairman of Jack B. Keenan Inc.,

“In Navigate Your Career, Dr. Shveta Miglani makes an incisive connection between how we move from our philosophical understanding of success to a strategic implementation of success. This playbook delivers a vertical and horizontal approach to making an impact in your career, adapting to environments and cultures, and finding your pathways to success by defining clear goals and being willing to do the work necessary to get there”.
—Sharawn Tipton, Chief People and Culture Officer,LiveRamp

“Shveta Miglani’s Navigate Your Career feels like having a personal coach in your corner. It’s packed with sharp, practical strategies that cut through the noise and set you up to thrive in any new role. If you’re stepping into something new and want to crush it from day one, this is the playbook you need”.
—AJ Thomas, Founder & CEO The Troublemaker Lab

"Dr. Shveta Miglani has such a wealth of experience in developing and coaching talent in the corporate world and understands both sides of developing a successful career. Her new book, Navigate Your Career, is the perfect guide for anyone starting a new job or career or who is looking to jump start their career to accelerate their success. I highly recommend it."
—Andy Storch, author of Own Your Career Own Your Life

“I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dr. Miglani's book, and several sections really resonated with me. One example is her insight into the important questions we should ask both our boss and ourselves when starting a new job. As she wisely states, "Knowing what is expected of you allows you to focus your efforts effectively."
—Ashima Puri, People Team Operations & Chief of Staff, Samsung Electronics

“Dr. Miglani's comprehensive and structured approach is a must-read for anyone pursuing a successful career or role change. Her insights are invaluable for charting a progressive career path.”
—Shiva Esturi, Vice President of Global Supply Chain, Micron Technology