For professionals weighing the leap
Leave the org chart.
Keep the expertise.
An eight-module course for corporate professionals who want to test independent consulting before they resign. No chasing trends. No cold outreach to strangers. Just a structured way to turn the network you already have into paying clients, at rates that reflect what you actually deliver.
Your niche is probably already sitting in your contacts list
Most guidance on going independent starts with market research: trend reports, competitor scans, keyword tools. This course starts somewhere closer to home. It asks what problems your former colleagues, managers, and cross-functional partners already trust you to solve.
That distinction matters. A niche built on a trend can shift under you within a year. A niche built on relationships and demonstrated competence tends to hold steady, because it is anchored in people who have already seen your work up close.
Across eight modules, the course walks through how to map that network honestly, translate scattered corporate experience into a clear offer, and approach the first conversations without sounding like you are asking for a favor.
Five shifts this course is built around
Each module supports one or more of these shifts. None of them require a finance background or legal training, and none of them are covered here as financial or legal advice.
Niche clarity from your network
Identify the two or three problems you are already known for solving, using the people who already know your work rather than guessing at market gaps.
Three clients before you quit
A sequence for having early conversations, shaping a small paid pilot, and confirming demand while your salary is still arriving.
Rates anchored to value
A framework for setting day rates around the outcome a client receives, rather than backing into a number from your old salary divided by hours.
A pipeline with rhythm
Habits for keeping conversations moving between engagements, so the gap after one project ends does not turn into a quiet month with no income.
A week with no one managing it
A practical structure for client work, business development, and rest, built for the week where nobody sends you a calendar invite.
Eight modules, worked in order
The modules are sequenced to mirror the actual decisions a transitioning professional faces, from first assumptions about a niche through to running an independent week.
Mapping your existing network into a niche
A structured inventory of former colleagues, clients, and partners, sorted by the problems they associate with you.
Translating corporate experience into consulting value
Reframing job titles and internal projects into language a client outside your old company will understand and pay for.
Positioning without a marketing department
A simple, honest way to describe what you do, tested on real conversations rather than polished on a website nobody reads yet.
Conversations that lead to your first three clients
Scripts and sequencing for outreach that feels like catching up with people you know, not pitching strangers.
Setting day rates that reflect outcomes, not hours
Building a rate structure around the value delivered, with room to adjust as your scope and confidence grow.
Proposals, scope, and saying no without losing the room
Keeping engagements clearly bounded so scope creep does not quietly erase the rate you negotiated.
Building a pipeline that doesn't dry up between engagements
Low-effort habits for staying visible to your network so the next engagement is already forming before the current one ends.
Structuring a week with no one managing you
Designing a working rhythm that covers delivery, business development, and downtime, without a manager setting the pace for you.
Built for a specific stage, not everyone
This course tends to suit you if
- You have several years of experience in a corporate role and a network of people who have seen that work firsthand.
- You are considering consulting as a way to work independently, not as a way to sell products or manage investments.
- You want a structured plan before resigning, rather than resigning first and figuring it out after.
- You are comfortable doing the outreach and pipeline work yourself, at least in the early months.
This course is probably not for you if
- You are looking for financial planning, tax structuring, or legal incorporation guidance. Those topics are outside this course entirely.
- You are early in your career with little professional network to draw from yet.
- You want a done-for-you client acquisition service rather than a course you work through yourself.
- You need guaranteed income projections before starting. This course does not offer any.
How the eight modules are delivered
Self-paced module videos
Each module is broken into shorter working sessions you can move through around a current job, with worksheets attached to each one.
Small group discussion
Periodic calls with a small cohort working through the same modules, useful for comparing notes on niche framing and rate setting.
Templates and worksheets
Editable templates for outreach messages, proposal outlines, and weekly planning, provided as a working document rather than a finished script.
Office hours for questions
Scheduled sessions to talk through where you are stuck, whether that is module three or module seven.
Considering the shift, but not sure it is time yet?
A discovery call is a low-pressure way to talk through where you are, what your network looks like, and whether this course matches your situation before you commit to anything.