They left. They launched. Here’s how.
Stop giving away
your best thinking
for free.
A step-by-step cohort that walks you from “I have expertise” to a registered business, confident pricing, and your first signed client.
312 alumni launched
Revenue Goal
First $10K
2 proposals out · 1 signed this week
You’re already consulting.
You just aren’t getting paid.
If any of these sound uncomfortably familiar, you don’t have an expertise problem. You have a structure problem. That’s exactly what Launchpad fixes.
"Can I pick your brain about our hiring process?"
You spent 90 minutes on a Zoom call. They got a roadmap. You got a LinkedIn recommendation.
"You should just start charging for this."
Three different people said it this month. You smiled and said "maybe someday."
"I'll send you the deck I made for my last company."
You've rebuilt this framework four times for free. The fifth time, someone else got paid $8,000 for it.
"Your LinkedIn DMs are a consulting practice."
You're answering strategy questions between meetings. It's unpaid. It's also clearly your zone of genius.
Avg. first-year consulting revenue for Launchpad alumni
Median time from enrollment to first signed client
Professionals who launched their practice through this program
Of graduates say they wish they'd started 2 years earlier
Eight dimensions. One honest look at
where you are vs. where you could be.
This isn’t a features list. It’s a map of the exact transformation the program creates.
Sole proprietor by default — or nothing registered at all. Liability is yours personally.
LLC filed, EIN obtained, business bank account open. You're a real company on paper and in practice.
💡 Most consultants skip this step and lose 20% more in taxes.
You quote what feels "not too greedy" and immediately wonder if you left money on the table.
You use the Value-Based Pricing Framework from Module 3. Your floor is $3,500/engagement.
💡 Launchpad graduates raise their rates an average of 2.8× after Module 3.
Whoever asks. Whoever you happen to mention it to at a dinner party. Fingers crossed.
A 90-day outreach sequence with 12 warm contacts, 3 active conversations, and 1 proposal out.
💡 The pipeline system works in any industry — we've tested it in HR, tech, finance, and ops.
A rambling email you rewrote for 3 hours that still doesn't feel right.
A 4-section proposal template that closes at 68% — scope, timeline, investment, next step.
💡 You get the exact template used to close a $22,000 engagement in Module 5.
Panic in April. Scrambling for receipts. Paying SE tax you didn't budget for.
Quarterly estimated payments scheduled. S-Corp election evaluated. 22–31% tax savings documented.
💡 The tax session alone saves most graduates more than the course costs.
LinkedIn says "Open to opportunities." Your bio is your job title. Nobody knows what you do.
A one-sentence positioning statement that makes the right clients say "that's exactly what I need."
💡 Written in Module 2 with your cohort — peer feedback included.
Someday. Maybe next year. After I feel more ready. After I build a website.
Week 7 of the cohort. With a real client. Doing the work you were already doing for free.
💡 67% of graduates sign their first paid client before the cohort ends.
Figuring it out alone. Googling "how to set consulting rates" at 11pm.
A Slack community of 312 working consultants. Rate reviews, referrals, and real talk.
💡 43% of graduates' second clients came through a referral from the community.
The first module is free. No credit card. Just your name and email.
$1.4M
consulting revenue
before age 40
Meet your instructor
Rachel Okonkwo built her practice at a kitchen table. Not a WeWork.
After 14 years as a Senior People Operations director at companies you’ve heard of, Rachel left to consult independently. She made every mistake — underpriced her first three engagements, sent proposals that went nowhere, spent six weeks building a website nobody needed.
Then she figured it out. Launchpad is the playbook she wrote during year two, when she crossed $200K and realized the path was replicable. She’s taught it to 312 professionals across HR, strategy, tech, finance, and operations.
14 years
Corporate experience before launching
312 alumni
Professionals coached through launch
$1.4M
Personal consulting revenue
7 cohorts
Refined, tested, improved each time
In their own words.
No paraphrasing.
I'd been answering hiring questions for free for three years. The pricing module alone was worth ten times what I paid. I sent my first proposal the week we covered it. They signed the same day.
Marcus Delgado
Former Senior HR Director · formerly Deloitte
I thought I needed a website, a logo, a LinkedIn rebrand. Rachel told me I needed one good proposal and three warm emails. She was right. The website can wait. The clients couldn't.
Priya Nair
Ex-Agency Digital Strategist · formerly HubSpot
The legal and tax session was the thing nobody talks about. I was about to structure everything wrong. The LLC and S-corp conversation saved me more in year one than I can calculate.
James Whitfield
Former IT Director · formerly Salesforce
The community is genuinely the most underrated part. My second client came through a referral from a Launchpad alumnus I'd never met in person. We just helped each other in Slack.
Sasha Kowalski
Operations Strategy Consultant · formerly McKinsey
Eight modules. Eight deliverables.
Zero filler.
Every module ends with something you can use the same week — not a worksheet, a deliverable.
Week Deliverable
📦 Your positioning statement + service menu
- Retainer vs. project vs. advisory — which model fits your expertise
- The Niche Matrix: finding the intersection of your skill, market demand, and pricing power
- Writing your one-sentence positioning statement (peer-reviewed in cohort)
- The three services you should offer on day one (and why you don't need more)
Module 1 is free. No credit card. Start tonight.
Take the playbook home first.
The Consulting Launch Checklist is the eight-step framework from the course, condensed into a single PDF. If you’re not ready to enroll, start here.
Legal structure decision (LLC vs. sole prop)
Business bank account setup checklist
Value-based pricing worksheet
First proposal template (4-section)
90-day client pipeline tracker
Quarterly tax payment schedule
12 commonly missed business deductions
LinkedIn positioning script
The Consulting Launch Checklist
8 steps, 8 deliverables, one clear path from expertise to paid practice. No fluff. No upsell in the PDF.
One email. Your checklist. No sequences, no spam.
No credit card ever required
One email, your checklist, done
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