Consultants get a bad rap. Some of it deserved. But the founders in this section are the real deal. People who’ve built consulting firms, advisory practices, and service businesses that actually deliver results. Not just slide decks. Results.
These interviews cover every flavor of consulting. Management consulting. Strategy. Operations. HR. Technology implementation. The kind of work where you walk into someone else’s mess and try to make it better, which requires a very specific combination of confidence and humility.
The founders here talk about how they built their practices from scratch. How they landed their first clients. How they price their services, which, if you’ve ever tried to price consulting, you know is more art than science. Also how they scale without burning out. That’s the question every consultant eventually faces.
You’ll find conversations about the shift from corporate to independent. Building a team versus staying solo. Niching down versus staying broad. The pros and cons of productizing services. And the constant challenge of doing the work while also finding the work. If you’re in consulting or thinking about it, these are people worth learning from.
A former Air Force officer, Jerry Pradier was a B-52 pilot and education administrator for over 25 years. During his career as an Air Force manager and as an entrepreneur,…
Meet Jerry Pradier – Founder of Progressive Business Development Network
Laurie Cantus, CEO and Founder of Go2Girls, has a passion for helping small business owners implement their big ideas. Amassing over 10 years of executive administrative support experience and 12…
[quote style=”boxed”]I get up early and try stuff. Fail a lot… and keep on trying.[/quote] A child of 1960s Hippy dropouts who’d relocated to the remote Shetland Island of Papa…
[quote style=”boxed”]I have an unconventional formula. I try everything. My approach is to throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. I throw a lot of mud. Sometimes its…
[quote style=”boxed”]The time is now, don’t wait to do something you love. Do it now. Ask yourself, “What am I waiting for?”[/quote] Anna and Ken Boynton of Message Glue…
[quote style=”boxed”]1. Audit the content you have. List it in an Excel spreadsheet. Look long and hard at it.2. Put someone in charge of the content at the beginning of…
[quote style=”boxed”]Before I was an entrepreneur I was an artist. When you are creating a painting or a sculpture, you start with a concept of something you want to create….
[quote style=”boxed”]You influence others by speaking their language, not through some magical gift of persuasion.[/quote] Brian Tolle is a partner at The Re-Wired Group, a business development consultancy that uses…
[quote style=”boxed”]I decide. It can be an incredibly painful process, and it doesn’t happen very often, but when it does…watch out.[/quote] Al Pittampalli is founder of The Modern Meeting Company,…
Meet Al Pittampalli – Architect of the Modern Meeting Standard
Jason Batansky has worked as an entrepreneur since he was a teenager. At 23 years old he is earning a six-figure income as a location independent professional traveling throughout the…
[quote style=”boxed”]Do what you do best, and when you can afford to, hire people to do what they do best in leveraging your company.[/quote] Viveka von Rosen is a nationally…
Arne’s passion is to develop individuals, leaders, businesses and organizations. He has been doing that since 1981-1990, when he was studying with the renowned American professor Peter Koestenbaum. Arne’s company,…