Start, Grow, and Scale Your
Consulting or Professional Business
Using Proven Strategies, Tactics, and
AI-Powered Systems
Corporate to Consultant
You've worked in the corporate environment, but now it's time for higher income and greater independence.
Start and get clients quickly. Build a solid business platform with clear, proven step-by-step guidance.
Early and Mid-Stage
Consultant
You've been consulting, but your growth is slower than you want, and your income is erratic.
You need proven strategies, tactics, and AI-powered systems that quickly fill your client portfolio, increase your income and create a better work-life balance.
Experienced
Consultant
You are past the startup stage but barriers hold you back. The Feast-or-Famine cycle keeps you from growing as fast as you should.
You need consulting systems and a community to help you scale and build multiple streams of income.
Independent Professionals
Independent professionals work in every sector: accounting, engineering, sustainability, architecture, finance…
You’re comfortable moving between clients and confident in your professional skills, but you want to avoid being trapped in the commodity freelance market. You want to build authority and recognition.
Consulting & Professional Service Firms
Regardless of the profession, consulting, marketing, accounting, engineering, and sustainability, professional services firms can benefit from the Consulting Mastery course. Professional service firms need a structured program that equips everyone with business skills that grow the firm, making everyone a Rainmaker while using Generative AI for peak productivity.
I don't ever recommend training, but
this is a rare exception.
Of the dozens of trainings I have been involved with over the last twenty years, this is hands down the best business training I have attended at any price point, highly recommended.
Steve Birks, BizDash Systems Ltd.
Providing managers with custom-made business dashboards,
and Visual Management Operating Systems
Start, Grow, Scale
Start with Confidence
- Quickly add new clients in the first 90-days
- Follow Fast Track lessons to confidently complete Business Builder projects
- Learn basic to advanced Generative AI prompts (no code) as you complete Fast Track lessons
- Complete Business Builder projects that are the foundation for a successful business
- Leverage feedback from your cohort, the Master's Community, and your coach
Grow with Proven Strategies and Systems
Grow rapidly and confidently using proven strategies, tactics, and AI-powered systems. Days of work are reduced to a few hours.
- Learn in 8 weeks what takes 3 to 5 years on your own
- Build marketing and sales processes that quickly capture, engage, and close clients
- Leapfrog competitors by using AI systems to accelerate marketing, sales, and consulting product deliverables
- Learn Gen AI prompt engineering and be "The Expert" in your niche
Invest in Your Future
Call To ActionI highly recommend the course to anyone who wants to
grow their consulting business.
Sheella Mierson, PhD Biophysics
Founding Member, The Sociocracy Consulting Group
Partner, Blueprint of We California
Transform Your Life
- Learn in 8 weeks what takes others 3 to 5 years to learn on their own
- Get clients within 90 days of starting the course
- Customize Business Builder projects you will use for years
- Know your perfect fee and the best business model
- Eliminate the Feast-or-Famine cycle
Accelerate Your Consulting Growth
- Don't depend on referrals that dry up - build a Client Getting System.
- Save 30% of each week's time with automated marketing and lead gen
- Use the 12-step sales process to win high-value sales
- Reduce your workload with our Consulting AI-Prompt Archive for 2X to 3X productivity
- Build multiple streams of income that pay you 7 X 24 X 365
Don't Waste 3 to 5 Years -
Fill Your Client Pipeline Now!
Life is too short, and your family's income is too precious to spend 3 to 5 years learning to build a consulting business on your own.
Learn the strategies, tactics, and systems that power a highly successful consulting business.
In my first three years of consulting, I earned half my corporate salary. It took that long to begin learning what works.
A few years later, I was ecstatic as I reported $983,000 in income to the US Internal Revenue Service (Federal taxes). I learned the strategies, tactics, and skills Critical to Success as an independent professional.
Don't waste time and energy. Use the courses and free tools in Critical to Success to accelerate your consulting.
Ron's Critical to Success course has totally changed my life.
I'm not kidding!
John Lamy
Management Consultant, Southern Oregon
Lamy Consulting
Master the Difference Between
Average and High-Income Consultants
Join the ranks of high-earning independent professionals.
Often, it's just a few things that separate the average from the great. This chart shows that the average self-employed person in the US earned $47,200. In that same time frame almost 3 million self-employed people earned more than $100,000. And 300,000 earned between $500,000 and $2,500,000.
Chart, Pofeldt, E. (2018), "The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business"
You can learn and put to use what makes the difference between average and high-income.
Consultants Enjoy a Satisfying, Healthy,
and Independent Lifestyle
You might think that the "hard work" it takes to make high six- and seven-figure incomes while being independent would add stress to your life. In fact, the opposite is true for those who know how to overcome the obstacles.
Successful consultants work less and enjoy their work more.
Being unsuccessful is what creates the most stress.
Invest in Your Future
Call To Action
High Satisfaction
74% of full-time self-employed independents in reported they were very satisfied, the highest level reported in seven years.
Self-Employment
65% said they chose to be self-employment. They were in control of their life and work.
Healthy Lifestyle
70% of full-time self-employed said that working independently was
better for their health.
MBO Partners, "State of Independents Reports", 2017
Get the Consulting Strategies, Tactics, and
AI-Powered Systems You Need for Success!
Fast Track Modules
Fast Tracks guide you with one to two hours of work in each weekly stage to build and validate your business model. Use step-by-step guidance, videos, and robust, no-code AI prompts to quickly complete your work.
Gen AI Prompts
Gen AI Prompts throughout the courses not only teach you how to master powerful, no-code Gen AI tools, they also give you 2X to 3X productivity improvement in marketing, sales, and deliverables.
Mastery Modules
Mastery Models in each stage give you deeper details on advanced tactics and tools after you complete the Fast Track for a module.
Business Builder Projects
Business Builder Projects in each stage help you build business systems you will continue to use throughout your career. Example projects generate Lead Gen Materials, Personalized Email Sequences, Sales Scripts, Proposal Generators, and much more.
Video Tutorials, Workbooks, Templates, Checklists, and Scripts
Step-by-step learning keeps you on track with confidence. Move along quickly in your learning and business building. Some scripts and templates take years to develop. Save those years by starting with ours.
Live Weekly Group Sessions
Connect with your group and coach in live weekly sessions. It can get lonely as a solo consultant, but this is where we can share ideas and partner.
Personal Coaching
You have a Unique Value Proposition and niche, so some of your questions are confidential. Your coach, Ron Person, and his 30+ years consulting experience is there for one-on-one coaching to help you define your business model and grow your business.
Fast Track Modules
Fast Tracks guide you with one to two hours of work in each weekly stage to build and validate your business foundation.
Coaching
Don't go it alone. Get personal coaching with Ron - 30+ years consulting and more than 3 million book copies in print.
Mastery Modules
Mastery Modules contain advanced tactics and tools to help you master advanced tactics for building your business.
Weekly Office Hours
Live Weekly Office Hours give you feedback and answers on your Business Builder projects and consulting.
Consulting Community
You can feel isolated as an independent consultant. Exchange great ideas and share with the community.
Business Builders
Business Builder Projects at each stage create your business foundation. Start them here and use them throughout your career.
Scripts and Templates
Use Gen AI with proven email, LinkedIn, and Discovery Session templates. Use AI to create winning proposals.
Workbooks
Interactive workbooks guide you step-by-step as you record your ideas and build your tactics and systems.
Flow Charts
Know where you are and where you are going in your learning and building with flow charts that guide you in best practices.
Archives
Get lifetime access to your course and the AI-Prompt Archive. Access previous office hours, interviews, and more.
SOPs and Check Lists
Standard Operating Procedures and check lists keep you and your clients on track with best practices.
Any Device
Need guidance while on the go? Get access to courses, assets, and community with your smartphone or tablet.
Ron Person has brought a lifetime of successful consulting to his Critical to Success course. I can’t say enough good things about him and his work.
Leslie Lawton
Copywriter, Content Marketing Strategist
Connected Communications
Consulting Mastery Modules
Our keystone course is Consulting Mastery. The Consulting Mastery course combines into one course all the critical elements you need to build a highly successful consulting business.
At each stage in Consulting Mastery you will have Fast Track modules to quickly learn the most important concepts, Business Builder Projects to build your business systems, and Mastery modules for advanced topics.
1. Finding Your
Perfect Niche
Creating a high-income, professionally rewarding business is easier and more profitable when you find, validate, and match the needs of your perfect niche.
Use AI-power to identify needs, goals, and objections within a niche. Learn how to create your unique service proposition.
2. Finding Your
Ideal Client
Identify your ideal client, know their needs, pains, and goals and be able to communicate with them so they know you are the professional they need.
Learn the secrets of the best industry tools to build a target list of the exact clients who need and value you.
3. Promoting Your
Professional Brand
Use a professional branding framework that quickly creates the "Know, Like, and Trust" that is critical for consulting and professional services.
Create your professional brand and keep at the top of your client's mind using our high-performance AI-systems.
4. Building Your
Client List
Identify channels that work best for you and your client outreach, then build AI-powered systems that quickly fill your leads list and turn prospects into clients.
Use AI-powered marketing that turns days of work into hours.
5. Calculating
Consulting Fees
Break away from hourly fees to higher profits with one of the nine fee and business models for consulting and professional services.
Discover the latest fees for your region, niche, and expert level.
6. Selling
Consulting Services
Become a master at the highly effective 12-step sales process that takes you and the client from first contact to close. Whether simple or high-value and complex, this works.
Practice your sales conversations with our AI-powered mentor.
7. Writing Winning Proposals
Winning proposals and retainers becomes easy when you give our AI-powered proposal system your consulting notes.
Choose from multiple templates then feed your backgrounder and notes and it drafts your winning proposal.
8. Increase Operational Performance
Increase professional productivity and performance. Use advanced AI prompts from the archive and recommended low-cost apps to do the back office and draft client deliverables.
Save days of research and writing with AI-drafted Consultative Frameworks like SWOT, Five Forces, etc.
9. Scale with Multiple Streams of Income
Put your expertise to work at all hours and in multiple channels.
Working by the hour or project limits you. Learn how to productize your expertise. Leverage your expertise into multiple income streams with proprietary niche ChatBots, Kindle books, online courses, and more.
Invest in Your Future
Call To ActionWho Is Your Teacher and Mentor?
I want you to quickly gain the income, independence, and recognition you deserve.
Don't spend 3 to 5 years learning the lessons it takes to succeed at consulting. Use proven strategies, tactics, and AI-powered systems to build a highly successful consulting business.
I was a solo consultant for 30+ years. And I know you don't have to go through those tough first years.
The strategies, tactics, and AI powered systems in Critical to Success combined with weekly group sessions and personal one-on-one coaching will jump your consulting business to the next level.
The Consulting Mastery and other Critical to Success courses contain the strategies and skills I've learned in a career that includes,
- Teaching 1,000s of business and technical professionals through consulting and University of California, Berkeley
