The Career Vectors Framework

A practical tool to understand what your role really needs, and how your strengths measure up.

Meri Williams’ Career Vectors Framework gives you a clear, visual way to map six core dimensions of technical leadership: hands-on tech depth, tech strategy, delivery, organisational leadership, commercial understanding, and domain expertise.

Whether you’re stepping into a new role, aiming for the next one, or trying to understand why your current job feels harder than it should, this framework shows you:

• Where you’re a strong match;
• Where you’ll need to stretch;
• Where the role and your strengths don’t align; and
• How to have an honest, grown-up conversation with your manager or CEO about expectations.

It also includes worked examples, comparing engineers with architects, EMs with software delivery managers, and more, so you can see how different roles take different shapes.

Download it, map your own vectors, and get a clearer view of your path forward.