Introducing: The High-Impact Professional's Playbook
Stop leaving impact on the table. Whether you're rethinking your career, optimizing your giving, or looking to leverage your current position - this practical playbook gives you the frameworks and tools to actually do the most good possible.
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About the Book
The High-Impact Professional's Playbook transforms how you think about making a difference in your career. Written for busy professionals who want concrete, evidence-based strategies, it bridges the gap between caring about the world's problems and actually solving them.
Practical Frameworks
Learn proven decision-making tools that help you identify where your time and money create the most good. The book teaches you:
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How to systematically evaluate trade-offs between different paths to maximize impact rather than dilute it
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Why traditional intuitions about "doing good" mislead us—and the mental models that reveal high-leverage opportunities
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A decision-making toolkit for comparing vastly different options on the same scale of real-world impact
Action-Oriented Exercises
Move from inspiration to implementation with structured exercises throughout each chapter. Every section provides:
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Concrete next steps you can take immediately, regardless of your situation
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Worksheets to create your personalized impact plan
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Real barriers professionals face and specific strategies to overcome them
Real Impact Journeys
See how professionals like you have transformed their careers and giving. The book features:
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Impact Journey Spotlights showing diverse paths from consulting to nonprofit leadership
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Concrete results like millions donated, organizations founded, and lives transformed
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Honest accounts of challenges, uncertainties, and breakthrough moments
Seven Paths to Impact
Discover multiple ways to create meaningful change, whether through your career, donations, or influence. You'll explore:
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Career transitions that could increase your positive impact 100-fold
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Strategic donation approaches that help 100 times more people with the same budget
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High-leverage opportunities like workplace initiatives, board service, and network building
“Most people who want to do good end up wasting an astonishing amount of talent, time, and money — not because they don’t care, but because they don’t know where it actually makes a difference. The High-Impact Professional’s Playbook is a bracing antidote to that waste. Clear-eyed, rigorous, and relentlessly practical, this book shows how ordinary career and giving decisions can become extraordinary moral leverage. If you’re serious about making a huge positive impact, you should read this book.”
— Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind and Moral Ambition
About the Author
Devon Fritz is the co-founder of High Impact Professionals and most recently Chief Operating Officer at Ambitious Impact. Through High Impact Professionals, he has coached hundreds of professionals on maximizing their positive impact through strategic career choices, effective donations, and influence, helping them collectively move millions of dollars toward effective causes and transition into high-impact roles.
Devon practices what he teaches. After switching from building tax software to impact-focused work, he's taken Giving What We Can's 🔸10% Pledge, systematically evaluated his own career options using the frameworks in this book, and serves on the boards of multiple high-impact organizations. Reach out to him at hipbook@highimpactprofessionals.org to share your impact journey.