Academic medicine allows you to grow in your field of expertise and interest. Yet, the guidance you receive will provide you with the path toward successful professorial promotion. As a dean of faculty affairs and development, there is no greater pleasure than serving as a guide for faculty across their life cycle from recruitment to retirement and everything in between. In this chapter, you will find information regarding the dean of faculty affairs and development role. Depending on the maturity of your institution, you will need to define who is intended for you to serve and where the greatest needs lie. As a dean of faculty affairs and development, you are the key individual that faculty turn to for their career development; do not assume that faculty are aware of institutional resources. Your role will be to develop both in-person programs and online resources that bring together topics relevant to faculty development. We also recognize that this deanship cannot be done solo. It is the collaboration of many other offices such as research, graduate medical education, equity, diversity, and inclusion, to name a few, to ensure successful transitions, recruitment, and retention of faculty and, more so, faculty of minoritized groups! Believe us; nobody started off thinking they would be a dean for faculty affairs and development after finishing medical school or graduate school. We hope that this chapter inspires you to consider this deanship as an opportunity to serve as an advocate for faculty and trainees as pre-faculty.