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What You Will Learn With This Book

The Career Reinvention Blueprint™: From Restless to Realigned – 7 steps to find work that fits and a life that matters.

Understand Your Discomfort

Differentiate between situational and growth discomfort, and identify the changes required for each.

Mindset Shifts for Growth

Transition from a fixed mindset tied to your past role to a growth mindset that embraces who you’re becoming.

Clarity at Career Crossroads

Recognize when restlessness and success no longer align—and what that means for your next chapter.

Tools and Stories for Change

Learn from global leaders who have successfully reinvented and apply exercises and prompts to your journey.

7-Step Reinvention Roadmap™

A practical framework to move from burnout and confusion to clarity, confidence, and alignment.

Reinvent Success with Courage

Step off autopilot and pursue purpose, meaning, and impact—beyond external validation or titles.

What our Readers are saying

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This book is the encouragement you need to get yourself out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. It offers not only practical advice, but also invitations for self reflection, and provides good examples of how people have changed their lives for the better. I found the book was highly relatable. I felt like the author was writing directly to me as I had many ah-ha moments. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking more from their lives.

Clare Glade-Wright
Clare Glade-Wright, Deputy Mayor, Kinborough, Tasmania
This is one of the most inspiring and practical guides to career reinvention I’ve come across. It speaks directly to the heart of anyone who has ever felt stuck, misaligned, or burdened by expectations that no longer fit. The author doesn’t just offer advice—he offers a roadmap for rediscovering yourself and building a life that truly reflects who you are becoming. Highly recommended for anyone standing at a crossroads! 

Adaeze Ifezulike
Dr Adaeze Ifezulike MBE, Family and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, UK

About The Author

Dr David Onu

Dr. David Onu is a medical specialist and Career Reinvention Coach with over 25 years of experience in medicine and leadership. After pivoting from a demanding surgical path, he now helps value-driven professionals reinvent, pivot, and lead with clarity, purpose, and alignment.

Through coaching, writing, storytelling, and speaking, David inspires others to grow and lead with heart. Based in Tasmania, he also serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania. Above all, he is most proud of being a husband, father, and community builder.

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Foreword
Why I Wrote This Book
Introduction
Closing Teaser

Foreword

At some point in every career, a quiet restlessness sets in. You have achieved significant milestones and earned the respect of your peers, yet something within whispers, “Is this really it?” That tension between success and fulfillment is not a flaw; it is a signal. And that is why this book is essential.

In The Career Reinvention Blueprint™, Dr. David Onu speaks directly to those standing at life’s crossroads. He understands the struggle firsthand. 

Once a surgeon with prestige and stability, David made the bold decision to step away from the well-trodden path and pursue a life that truly resonated with him. That choice was not easy, but it brought him what many secretly yearn for: clarity, freedom, and alignment.

What distinguishes this book is its honesty. It does not pretend that reinvention is effortless, nor does it romanticize quitting. Instead, it offers a practical seven-step roadmap, grounded in lived experiences, real client stories, and valuable tools. 

Whether you are a young professional sensing that there is more to life ahead, a midlife leader feeling the weight of misalignment, someone on a non-professional path, or a retiree seeking renewed purpose, these pages will offer relatable insights.

As you read, be prepared to pause, reflect, and realign. You’ll encounter thought-provoking questions, discover new possibilities, and most importantly, gain permission to redefine success on your own terms.

This book is timely. We live in an era of widespread burnout, yet the hunger for meaningful work has never been stronger. What Dr. Onu offers here is not just hope, but a tangible path forward.

My encouragement is simple: do not merely read this book, engage with it. Journal alongside it. Discuss it with others. Let it guide your next steps, however small they may be. 

Reinvention rarely begins with giant leaps; it starts with a single honest decision.

Dr. Onu has provided you with a blueprint. The rest is in your hands. May you find the courage in these pages to move from restlessness to realignment; and create not just a career that works, but a life that matters.

Dr. Ikechukwu Okoh

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