A Start-up Guide for Independent Management Consultants

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45

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2hr 40m

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Welcome!

Hello and welcome to "A Start Up Guide to Independent Consulting", a course purpose built to support your career transition from traditional consulting firm to a viable independent consulting career.

The management consulting industry is a $1 trillion eco-system that continues to evolve with new models and segments. One rapidly growing segment is the independent (aka freelance) management consulting segment. This segment is comprised of professionals (many of whom have trained in top consultancies) who have made the decision to launch out on their own in search of more flexibility and higher incomes.

Transitioning to self-employment can be daunting and intimidating; surprisingly, few resources exist to guide professionals through this journey. Moreover, resources that focus specifically on management consulting are virtually nonexistent…until now!

“A Start Up Guide to Independent Consulting” provides valuable insights, frameworks, checklists, and approaches to help professionals successfully navigate the career transition journey and accelerate success.

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Course Organization

The course includes 45 mini lectures organized around 3 key areas:

  • Starting up: These mini lectures cover self-employment and consulting topics in check list form- from establishing a business entity to pricing your services and more.
  • Running the business: These mini lectures cover topics on the day-to-day management of your business, such as how to generate a constant income stream, how to generate leads, and more.
  • Growing and scaling: These mini lectures cover strategies to grow by maximizing your personal billable hours while also providing strategies to scale as an independent. That’s right, you can scale!

Check out the full course outline below and enroll today!

Course Objectives

There are 3 key course objectives:

First, the course serves as a practical guide to help you “get started” and address common questions related to your career transition.

Second, the course provides approaches, strategies, and lessons learned as thought triggers to help you get organized and progress.

Finally, the course helps you accelerate your transition to a viable independent management consulting career.

Target Audience

This course is purpose built for professionals who are making the career transition from traditional consulting firm to an independent career.

If you’ve worked for the Big 3 strategy firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG), the Big 4 (EY, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC), Accenture, Alix Partners, Alvarez & Marsal or other similar firms, and you’re interested in launching out on your own, this course is for you!

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Full Course Outline

  1. Course Introduction
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  2. Starting Up: Self Employment Checklist
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  3. Starting Up: Consulting Checklist
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  4. Running the Business- Channels to Market
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  5. Running the Business- Generating Leads
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  6. Running the Business- Selling and Negotiating
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  7. Running the Business- Delivering and Admin
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  8. Growing the Business- Maximizing Billable Hours
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  9. Scaling the Business- Growing beyond billable hours
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  10. Wrap up
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About the Instructor

Hi, my name is Chris Sanders. I am the founder of gigsulting and creator of this course. I am a career consultant having served in executives roles with EY and Accenture before spending a decade as an independent consultant. I also operate Juno Advisory, LLC which connects top tier independent consultant to client projects.

I designed this course based on many years operating as an independent and coaching other consultants through their own transition to an independent career.

About gigsulting

Gigsulting is a learning platform dedicated to independent management consulting. “A Start Up Guide to Independent Consulting” is our first course.

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