Organization of time and priorities is often identified as a key barrier to fulfilling professional advancement. Alignment of personal and professional goals to achieve faculty development outcomes is critical in academia. Improvement science has communication tools that align efforts and prioritize actions to help realize identified outcomes. A driver diagram is a structured chart fostering translation and communication of a high-level goal into a logical set of factors that are needed to influence achieving the overall goal. This diagram depicts the relationship between the goal, primary drivers that contribute directly to achieving the goal, and secondary drivers that are necessary to achieve the primary drivers (for a driver diagram template, see http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/Driver-Diagram.aspx). For career guidance, a driver diagram represents the person's current theories of "cause and effect" in the system-what efforts will align for goal achievement. Nurse educators planning for their career advancement should be provided behaviors, such as those outlined in the school of nursing tenure and promotion criteria or the health care organization's mission, vision, and values. These advancement behaviors indicate high-level drivers. Each person can direct actions that feed into those drivers, to determine what aligns with the overall objective, and communicate progress with a mentor or coach on regular intervals. There is great utility to apply improvement science techniques to advance individually in the profession. Driver diagrams are living tools and meant to be refined over time. If there are activities that do not align with the overall goal, those may need to be reprioritized. Examples of driver diagrams for teaching, service, scholarship, and leadership are provided in the Supplemental Digital Content, Figure, http://links.lww.com/NE/A734.