THE PBP BOOK TRILOGY

A trilogy about leadership and personal development

The Personal Business Plan universe includes Stephen’s trilogy about leadership and personal development.

Spanning 12 years and reflecting Stephen’s own experience, they explore the journey
– from CAREER
– to SUCCESS and HAPPINESS
– to MEANING.

  • Your Next Career – A headhunter’s guide to lifelong success (2012) is about the formative years shaping one’s CAREER.
  • The Personal Business Plan — A blueprint for running your life (2013) explores the many busy years achieving SUCCESS and HAPPINESS while juggling professional and personal life.
  • The Existential Playbook – How to survive, live and thrive (2024) finalises the journey of finding MEANING in life.

The Existential Playbook -
How to survive, live and thrive

MEANING

SUCCESS and HAPPINESS

Your Next Career
- A headhunter’s guide to lifelong success

Din næste karriere book cover

CAREER

What our readers
say about us

Portrait of CEO Gary Burnison - The Personal Business Plan client

Gary Burnison

CEO, Korn Ferry
The Personal Business Plan provides a genuine blueprint to drive individual transformational development and overall career success.
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Portrait of Uwe Horn - The Personal Business Plan client

Uwe Horn

CFO, Intersport Group
The PBP system is an efficient way to identify and clarify your ambitions, priorities, and potential.
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Portrait of Britt Meelby Jensen - The Personal Business Plan client

Britt Meelby Jensen

CEO, Ambu A/S, and board member, Novo Holdings A/S
I am much clearer about my priorities and “mission” in life, which makes me more comfortable in making choices.  I think many senior executives could benefit from The Personal Business Plan.
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Portrait of Peter Kurstein - The Personal Business Plan client

Peter Kürstein

Chairman, Radiometer A/S (A Danaher Company) and Ferrosan Medical Devices ApS & Vice Chairman, FOSS Analytical A/S
With “Your Personal Business Plan” your biggest existential questions look like common sense.
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Portrait of Hui Wang Christiansen - The Personal Business Plan client

Hui Wang Christiansen

Value Realization Manager, Technology Finance, A.P. Moller - Maersk
The online PBP Toolkit brought me to a state of clarity. The PBP process is both hard work and great fun — and its transformational effect is amazing.
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Portrait of CEO Anders Rahr - The Personal Business Plan client

Anders Rahr

CEO, NN07
The continuous documenting of my personal progress in the online Toolkit ensured that my reflections became fully internalized.
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Portrait of Joachim Rubow - The Personal Business Plan client

Joachim Rubow

SVP Group Communications, Marketing, CSR and Claims Prevention, Tryg Insurance
My meeting with Stephen’s thinking forced me to review my accomplishments as well as my motivators in a different light.
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Portrait of Joachim Lilholt - The Personal Business Plan client

Joakim Lilholt

CEO, The Danish Veterinary Association
Stephen is unique.  His ability to meet you where you are, and then embrace, lift, and move you by your own force and will is simply breathtaking.
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Portrait of Lise Agerley - The Personal Business Plan client

Lise Agerley Kürstein

Head of Communications, Copenhagen Airport A/S
When you have a busy day, you often forget to stop and notice what makes you happy. Stephen has helped me clarify what matters in my life.
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Portrait of Luise Faurschou - The Personal Business Plan client

Luise Faurschou

CEO & Founder, Faurschou Art Resources & ART 2030
The Personal Business Plan is an immensely efficient tool – for clarifying potentials and priorities as well as for determining your future path.
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About the author

Stephen Bruyant-Langer speaking at The Personal Business Plan event

For the past 30 years, Stephen Bruyant-Langer has excelled as a distinguished executive coach and leadership expert, guiding top executives and leaders worldwide to reach their full potential. Additionally, two decades as a top headhunter has endowed Stephen with an unparalleled appreciation of both the lives of senior executives and the organisations that employ them.

Through his Top Executive Coaching Programme, The Personal Business Plan, he has transformed the lives of hundreds of high-level executives with his unique 10-step system for personal and professional development. Renowned for his energetic and inspirational style, he is also a highly sought-after keynote speaker.

Stephen blends corporate, academic, entrepreneurial and consulting skills, having held senior positions with industry leaders like The Coca-Cola Company, L’Oréal and Korn Ferry. He has authored two bestselling books, over 400 articles on leadership and served as an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School as well as an Associate at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Both Danish and French, Stephen lives near Copenhagen with his wife. Together with their four children and nine grandchildren, they uphold the strong values that form the foundation of Stephen’s work: life ambition, personal reinvention, learning agility, and courage to commit.

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About the Books

The Existential Playbook - How to survive, live and thrive

Finding meaning, clarity and direction in our lives is challenging. It raises big questions about who we are, what we want and what it takes to survive, live and thrive in today’s world. The Existential Playbook is your guiding light; a powerful and optimistic companion for when you’re at life’s crossroads, searching for answers about what to do next.

With insights from experts in philosophy, psychology, neurology and strategy, Stephen leverages his proven 10-step executive coaching system alongside his brand-new Nordic Leadership Model. His powerful approach builds on the existentialist principles of choice, action and responsibility, providing you with a transformative roadmap to successfully edit your past, curate your present and design a future you’ll love.

The Personal Business Plan - A Blueprint for running your life

The Personal Business Plan offers a practical, field-tested method for effectively planning out what you want from life and exactly how to achieve it. It will change the way you look at yourself, your job and your career. This is an essential toolkit for all ambitious career professionals who want to know how to thrive in their job and simultaneously become a happier and more effective person. Creating your own personal business plan will help you to define your purpose, plan your actions, break through limiting beliefs and reinvent yourself.

A complete life view – how to excel in your chosen career and simultaneously enjoy a happy personal life.

Your Next Career - A headhunter's guide to lifelong success (Danish language)

As one of Denmark's leading headhunters, Stephen Bruyant-Langer has met and advised thousands of ambitious and successful people. In Your Next Career, he gives you the tools to become the conductor of your career. He helps you create 'Your personal business plan' - a tool he has developed and perfected in collaboration with Danish top leaders. The plan will ensure that you create results for yourself and others while sticking to your long-term ambitions and dreams.

Along the way, Stephen Bruyant-Langer invites the reader inside the executive search industry which is surrounded by many myths. He uses his daily experiences to equip you to find, apply for and get just the right job.

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Book Release Video

This video accompanied “The Personal Business Plan – A blueprint for running your life” at its release in 2013.  In it, Stephen Bruyant-Langer explains the four pillars of The Personal Business Plan:

  • Life Ambition
  • Personal Reinvention
  • Learning Agility
  • Courage to Commit

How to follow the principles, and why they work for you!