Consulting Success Podcast

How do you enter an established market with no brand, compete against legacy firms, and build a consulting business that actually grows year after year? Tim Viands did it by going where the incumbents were weakest. After spending twenty-five years inside independent schools, Tim founded IndySchool Consultancy because he believed the traditional executive search model was adding burden for clients...

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What if the biggest thing holding back your consulting business isn't your expertise, your offer, or even your marketing, but the relationships you're not actively building? In this episode, I'm talking with Stephanie Wachman, founder of Symetree Strategies, who has spent fifteen years building a consulting business around leadership, culture, coaching, and organizational development. Stephanie sh...

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There is a dangerous point in growing a business when you are making enough money to get comfortable, but not enough to truly scale. Cameron Hemphill has seen entrepreneurs get stuck there again and again. Instead of reinvesting to buy back their time, hire expertise, and build infrastructure, they protect their current income and unintentionally become the bottleneck. Cameron is a consultant, ope...

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What if AI doesn't just change how consultants do the work, but completely changes the consulting business model itself? Will Hinde believes we may be heading toward the death of the traditional billable hour and a future built around productization, intellectual property, and entirely different ways of delivering value. And he has a really unique vantage point. His perspective comes from more tha...

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What happens when you spend $150,000 trying to win new business and then have almost nothing to show for it? Well, for Kamar Perkins, that experience completely changed how he thought about growing a consulting business. Kamar is a military veteran and founder of the Protech Consulting Group, where he has built a growing technology consulting business focused on areas including AI, machine learnin...

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Your consulting firm can only grow as fast as the leaders inside it. And yet, many firms spend years trying to solve growth challenges through marketing, sales, or new service offerings while overlooking the leadership systems that actually drive performance. That is exactly what we are unpacking in this episode with Nate Boaz. After serving in the Marine Corps and building his career across firms...

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How to Turn One-Day Trainings Into $200,000 Engagements What if the problem your client hired you to solve isn't the real problem at all? Shawn Doyle spent about six years as VP of Learning & Development at Comcast, where senior executives constantly told him "I need training" — and he quickly realized that what they actually needed was diagnosis. That insight, that he wasn't just in training...

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Have you ever looked at a massive company and assumed that they are out of reach of becoming a client of yours? Well, Jamie Shanks used to think the same thing, but fast forward to today. He has built multiple successful businesses. He has experience selling into global organizations like Oracle, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and many others. And he has developed a repeatable approach for turning on...

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Most consulting firms hit a wall the moment they outgrow their founder's rolodex. They lean on word of mouth until referrals plateau, then panic-hire marketers, dilute their delivery quality, and spend the next three years explaining to clients why they no longer feel like the boutique they originally bought. The exceptions are the firms whose leaders refuse to get comfortable — the ones who treat...

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Why do so many consultants struggle to land their first few clients even when they are good at what they do? Well, in this episode, you are going to hear from Dylan Bassett, a consultant who left the corporate world in his mid-20s and built a values-driven consulting firm from scratch in just a few years. What makes Dylan's story different is how he did it, because he had no audience, no big netwo...

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What does your consulting firm need to look like for someone to actually want to buy it? Well, that's exactly what we're going to be unpacking in this episode with David Mann, an investor focused on acquiring and scaling professional services firms. What's powerful here is his perspective. David doesn't just talk theory. He's evaluating hundreds of firms, looking for the few that are actually buil...

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What if the biggest constraint in your consulting firm isn't demand, but the type of clients you're saying ‘yes’ to? In this episode, you're going to hear from Hassan Mahmood, founder of Voiant Group, a global consultancy helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies rethink how they design, scale and optimize their revenue operations. What makes Hassan's perspective different is how intentionally...

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Most consulting firms struggle with the feast or famine cycle. They have great months followed by silence. So what does it take to build a consulting firm that keeps growing for 24 years? Well, my guest, Carlo Cuesta, co-founder of Creation in Common, a consulting firm that helps nonprofits and government organizations collaborate, plan strategically, and strengthen communities. Over the past two...