Consulting Success Podcast
The #1 podcast for consulting business owners who want to build a profitable, scalable and strategic consulting business. Over one thousands consulting business owners have applied the growth system that Consulting Success teaches here https://www.consultingsuccess.com/coaching-for-consultants Trusted by tens of thousands of consultants, the weekly conversations shine the spotlight on valuable business tips. Episodes support you in understanding how to navigate the market. This podcast is your guide to overcoming the most difficult obstacles in the consulting industry and enjoying big wins. Learn strategies for maintaining an effective team and attracting clients. Discover how to craft a clear...
The $25K-$100K Per Month Framework
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How Stephanie Wachman Filled 15 Years of Consulting Work Without Marketing
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 shares how she went from believing a website and a stack of business cards would bring in clients to learning that real growth happens when you get out from behind your computer and build relationships with the people who can actually move...
Where Your Best Thinking Actually Happens
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How to Scale Your Consulting Business Beyond the Founder Growth Ceiling with Cameron Hemphill
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, operator, and investor who has worked with hundreds of businesses and built a highly specialized company serving more than 1,200 medical aesthetics practices before successfully exiting.
In this episode, you are going to discover...
What Successful Consulting Businesses Do Differently
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Building a Consulting Model to Stay Competitive in the AI Era with Will Hinde
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 than 25 years in management and technology consulting with over $900 million in consulting revenue generated throughout his career. Today he is the President of Consulting Services at the Addison Group. Will is focused on accelerating growth...
The $1M Consulting Business Model Explained
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Scaling Tech Consulting through Veteran Leadership and Relationship Systems with Kamar Perkins
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 learning, and digital transformation. What makes his story so interesting is that he didn't come from a technology background.
In this episode, you're going to hear how he went from submitting roughly 30 RFPs...
The Real Reason your Sales Pipeline Dried Up
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How to Accelerate Partner Performance and Maximize Growth with Nate Boaz
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 like McKinsey, Accenture, and Microsoft, Nate now helps professional service firm leaders accelerate partner performance and create stronger leadership teams.
In this conversation, you are going to learn why some...
Ideal Clients For Consultants And The Scarcity Tax Trap
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How Shawn Doyle Turned a Comcast L&D Role Into a 24-Book Consulting Empire
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" â and he quickly realized that what they actually needed was diagnosis. That insight, that he wasn't just in training but in consulting, became the foundation of his entire business. Now a leadership consultant, executive coach, Certified Speaking Professional, and author of more than 24 books, Shawn dismantles the myth that consultants should simply de...
Clear Positioning Gets High-Quality Referrals For Your Business
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The Limiting Belief That Keeps Consultants Out Of Enterprise Accounts with Jamie Shanks
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 one client relationship into an entire network of enterprise opportunities.
In this episode, Jamie shares the strategy that he calls the "Sphere of Influence," which is a powerful way to leverage...
Donât Automate What You Love (AI in Consulting)
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The 4 Differentiators Behind A Quietly Dominant Consulting Firm with Eddie Monroe
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 â the ones who treat every renewed contract like it could disappear in a phone call, and who design their team, pipeline, and operating model around that assumption from day one.
In this episode, Eddie Monroe â Founder of CCE...
Designing a Business That Supports Your Ideal Lifestyle
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How Purpose and Persistence Built Dylan Bassett's Consulting Firm
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 network, and no inbound machine. Instead, he did something that scares so many people. He picked up the phone.
We are going to...
AI in Consulting: What The Data Says
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Selling Your Consulting Firm: What Buyers Want with David Mann
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 built to last and built to scale.
In this episode, you're going to discover how to structure your business so that it's not dependent on you, how to build a repeatable sales...
How Consultants With Less Experience Than You Are Charging More
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Why the Best Consulting Clients Aren't the Biggest with Hassan Mahmood
What if the biggest constraint in your consulting firm isn't demand, but the type of clients you're saying âyesâ 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 he's built the firm - not by chasing the biggest deals, but by identifying the right sized opportunities that actually drive profitability, predictability, and team performance.
In this episode, you're going to discover how to move...
How To Build Systems (so Your Consulting Business Runs Without You)
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Beating Consulting's Feast Or Famine with Carlo Cuesta
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 decades, Carlo has built a business where up to 80 percent of new work comes from referrals and past clients.
In this episode, you're going to discover how strategic partnerships open doors to entirely new markets, why...
AVOID These Common Consulting Proposal Mistakes
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The Flawless Consulting Secret with Peter Block
Have you ever noticed that the harder you try to win the business, the less trusted you feel? What if the real power move in consulting isn't persuasion, but indifference? Well, Peter Block has spent more than forty years redefining what it means to be a consultant. He's the author of Flawless Consulting. He's shaped generations of advisors who want to move beyond being vendors and become true partners. What makes Peter different is this: he never built his firm around scale. He built it around contribution, around trust, around asking clients one uncomfortable question: "What's your contribution to...
AI Will Replace you
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Stop Your Consulting Business From Owning You with Jonathan Bennett
What if the real risk in your consulting business isn't failing? It's building something that quietly owns you? Jonathan Bennett knows what it's like to carry that weight. Long days, payroll responsibility, government funded clients that can freeze overnight, a growing team depending on your decisions. Well, he scaled his firm past seven figures, he built a team of 13, and he created productized services that ran without him in the room. But along the way, he faced hiring mistakes that cost him painful layoffs during a funding shutdown, and the sobering realization that security is often an illusion, whether...
What Actually Works Right Now: Pricing in the Consulting Space
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Why Trust Beats Lead Generation for Consulting Growth with Mooly Beeri
What if the fastest way to grow your consulting business isn't better marketing, but deeper trust inside the relationships you already built? Mooly Beeri spent years inside global tech giants like Microsoft and Philips, leading large-scale software engineering organizations. But when he launched his own consulting firm, he hit a wall most founders don't expect. No pipeline, no built-in demand, and no projects falling into his lap.
In this episode, you will discover why six different lead generation agencies failed him, how losing two major clients in six months reshaped his entire approach to business development, and...
Create a Consulting Business that Runs Itself
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Your Consulting Business Can Feel Better with Elliot Begoun
Have you ever hit a level of success that's supposed to feel like freedom, and instead, it starts to feel like you've built yourself a job that you can't escape?
Well, that's the tension that Elliot Begoun found himself in after building a seven-figure consulting business. He had the systems, the team, repeatable delivery, the whole thing. So from the outside, it looked like everything was dialed in. Internally, he was starting to feel depleted and, honestly, a bit bored.
Well, Elliot's story is powerful because he didn't start out as a natural consultant. He...
From Independent Consultant to Full Consulting Business
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Fan Favorite Replay: How To Speed Up The Consulting Sales Cycle with Tommy Ogden
Ready to learn what goes into scaling a tech-focused consulting firm from the ground up? In this episode, Tommy Ogden, co-founder of Activera Consulting, shares the fascinating journey of launching and growing a multimillion-dollar consultancy within just one year. Drawing on his extensive experience in both boutique firms and global giants like Accenture, Tommy delves into the strategic decisions that have propelled Activeraâs rapid success. He offers a candid look at the challenges of balancing talent acquisition with business development, the importance of defining and honing in on core service pillars, and the key lessons learned from his tr...
How The Best Marketing Doesn't Scale (Initially)
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How Listening Built This 7-Figure Business with Manal Sayid
What if the reason your consulting business hasn't grown isn't because you lack the perfect strategy, but because you need to learn how to hold better conversations?
In this episode, I'm joined by Manal Sayid, a facilitator and consultant who quietly built a seven-figure practice by helping leaders navigate the conversations most people avoid. Manal didn't start in consulting. She started in non profit HR, volunteered on a suicide prevention line for nearly a decade, and learned at a very human level how trust is built when people feel heard.
In this conversation, you'll discover...
How to Land 5 and 6-Figure Consulting Clients
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How To Build An Employee-Focused Consulting Culture That Boosts Retention and Business with John Quirk
Most consulting firms don't fail because of bad strategy. They stall because the founder becomes the bottleneck. Well, that's why I wanted you to hear from John Quirk, who spent decades inside a consulting firm that grew to eight figures, built extraordinary tenure on the team, and ultimately exited. John lived through the messy middle, hiring mistakes, delivery strain, and leadership gaps, and he helped redesign the business from the inside so that it could grow without breaking.
In this episode, you're going to learn how John shifted from founder-led execution to durable leadership systems, the exact...
The Messaging Mistake Thatâs Costing You High-Value Clients
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A Consultant's Guide to Reading People & Closing Deals Faster with Thomas Erikson
Selling over 12 million copies of his books worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots author Thomas Erikson knows a thing or two about human nature. But before the global fame, he spent 20 years writing in obscurity while working a "boring" banking job. He joins Michael to reveal why understanding the four core behavioral styles - Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue - is the ultimate hack for sales, leadership, and negotiation, and offers a proven framework for mirroring your prospects to build instant trust. If you want to stop wasting time on pitches that don't land and start scaling your influence, Thomas shares...
