YOUR FIRST YEAR
From Campus To Career: 25 Tips for Your First Professional Year
A practical, honest guide for recent graduates and early-career professionals navigating their first year at work — the unwritten rules nobody shares in orientation, the kind of guidance a trusted mentor pulls you aside to give.
Best for: new graduates, interns, first-time managers.
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Your Next Giant Steps: 25 Practical Tips for Job Search Success
From résumé to offer letter — a tactical playbook for landing the role that fits where you're going, not just where you've been. For anyone navigating a job search at any stage of career.
Best for: active job seekers, career switchers, returners.
YOUR COMEBACK
Your Next Giant Reset: A Career Comeback Guide
For anyone navigating a layoff, a pause, or a pivot. A grounded, honest guide to rebuilding your professional life on your own terms — and stepping back into the work you actually want.
THIS BOOK IS FREE FOR ANYONE IN CAREER TRANSITION.
Best for: recently laid off, returning from a pause, considering a pivot.
Three giant steps.
Three pivotal moments.
A career library for the moments that change everything.
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Giant Steps with Leilani Brown
Giant Steps with Leilani Brown (formerly Your First Job, the podcast) On each episode, author, speaker, and CEO Leilani Brown sits down with leaders, innovators, creators, everyday people, and trailblazers to uncover the pivotal decisions, bold reinventions, and daring choices that turned ordinary careers into extraordinary lives. Whether you’re just starting out, ready to make a career move, or looking to reinvent yourself, you’ll find both information and inspiration here. Big change doesn’t happen overnight—sometimes it starts with a single step, a small spark, and one amazing conversation at a time.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leilani M. Brown is the Founder and CEO of Giant Steps, LLC, a strategic advisory firm working at the intersection of strategy, culture, governance, leadership, and education. A global keynote speaker on governance, career, and workforce, she is the author of three books: From Campus to Career: 25 Tips for Your First Professional Year (now in its 10th anniversary 2nd edition), Your Next Giant Steps: 25 Practical Tips for Job Search Success, and Your Next Giant Reset: A Career Comeback Plan. She is also the host of the Giant Steps with Leilani Brown podcast.
Her thought leadership has appeared in Newsweek, Fortune, EdTech Digest, Authority Magazine, and Scary Mommy. Before founding Giant Steps, Leilani was an award-winning Fortune 500 executive at Stride, Starr Insurance, The Economist Group, MetLife, and AIG. She serves as Vice Chair of Middlebury College and is a board member of the Charleston Literary Festival. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.P.A. from NYU, and an NACD Directorship Certification®.