This page was created to help you find helpful LEAP resources and programs for your alumni. We hope to support your students and alumni in launching and growing a consulting business that provides them with meaningful work, great income, and a fulfilled life.
This free downloadable PDF includes 10 key questions that will help your alumni decide if consulting is right for them.
These questions are based on the free webinar Kris and Katie can provide for your alumni – 5 Ways to Tell if Consulting is Right for You – and 5 Warning Indicators it Might Not Be!
If you have struggled with questions like these:
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Projections show that this year, 40% of the workforce is independent, and at its current growth rate, the majority of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers by 2027.
At LEAP, we can help your organization’s members explore and prepare for the emerging trend of freelancing and consulting as a career.
As experienced speakers, we bring high-value content and life experience on consulting and freelancing as a career option to your organization.
Below, you’ll learn how you can partner with LEAP to support and engage your organization’s members.
We’ve worked with other organizations to create mutually beneficial partnerships where LEAP:
Engage members nationally and internationally through one of LEAP’s online webinars.
You can select from a variety of topics including:
Each presentation is interactive and has built-in time for Q&A, so that your members can get personalized answers and leave with actionable next steps.
We created LEAP because starting our own consulting businesses was the best possible decision we could have made for our careers, and we want to help others start their consulting businesses swiftly, smartly, and with support.
Kris has over 15 years of experience in consulting as a leadership and organizational development consultant at Evergreen Leadership. Katie founded Elevate Online nearly four years ago and has been doing digital marketing consulting since.
If you’re interested in learning more about our consulting journeys, head on over to our About Page.
Our LEAP Launch Series will guides individuals on their path to a successful consulting business. In the series individuals learn from Kris and Katie how to launch or grow their consulting businesses and how to define their unique niches.
When you partner with us for a Launch Series, we can either provide your alumni an initial discount and do a revenue share with you or we can provide a deeper discount where you cover part of the cost.
We have two offerings: Launch Series: Live and Launch Series: On Demand. Learn more below!
Launch Series: Live spans six weeks with live, web-hosted 60-minute sessions. You’ll be able to learn, to ask questions, and discover the practical how-to’s of running a successful consulting business.
The Launch Series On Demand is also a six-week program that consists of six, recorded Launch Series Lessons with the accompanying LEAP Launch tools and information you need to launch and grow your consulting business.
Our next Launch Series: Live cohort will be in September of 2021. If you’d like to give your alumni access for a special price, schedule a time to talk with Kris and Katie.
Launch Series: Live spans seven weeks with live, web-hosted 60-minute sessions. You’ll be able to learn, to ask questions, and discover the practical how-to’s of running a successful independent consulting business.
In the LEAP Launch Series you’ll learn the steps to establishing a successful practice from Kris and Katie on these important topics:
We’ll share the tools, techniques and methods we use in our successful practices.
Some of these tools include the:
We’ll walk you through them, and then you can put them to use building your business!
You’ll be part of a group of others building their consulting practice. Sessions will be done by videoconference and occur over a seven-week span with three weeks of learning, one week to catch up and another three weeks of learning. In the session, we’ll spend 45 minutes on prepared content and open the last 15 minutes for Q&A from the group
In the Launch Series: On Demand, Kris and Katie will guide your alumni on your path to a successful consulting business. This program contains the same information and tools as the Launch Series: Live program. However, with On Demand you can start the class on your day of choosing, and then you’ll be delivered the content through weekly recorded videos.
In the Launch Series: On Demand you’ll learn the steps to establishing a successful consulting practice and discover the practical how-to’s of running a successful consulting business through these lessons:
As part of the Launch Series: On Demand, you’ll be given practical pre-work for each lesson and our most helpful tools, techniques, and methods including:
We’ll walk you through how to use these tools and information, and then it will be up to you to put them to use to build your dream business!
Once you make the investment in the On Demand series, you’ll receive access to all of the lessons and tools of the Launch Series, and you can move through at your own pace.
Begin shaping your life and growing your consulting business today by registering for the Launch Series: On Demand!
Without a doubt, consulting has been the best career choice we've both made. Through consulting, we have been able to do more of the work we love, grow our income, be fully present at important moments in our lives, and so much more.
We hope to support you as you make the LEAP into consulting and as you grow your consulting business!Kris Taylor & Katie McNamee