CONSULTING SOLUTIONS

Bridge Your Expertise Into Credibility, Income & Impact

You’ve built a career on expertise, insight, and execution. Now, it’s time to turn that expertise into a consulting practice that gives you freedom, credibility, and purpose.

The Consulting Academy is a step-by-step program that helps experienced professionals—corporate leaders, clinical practitioners, and internal consultants—translate their deep knowledge into a structured, repeatable consulting framework that delivers high-impact work.

The Problem

You already have the expertise. What you need is the structure and confidence to sell it.

Most professionals know they could consult, but they’re unsure how to:

  • Establish credibility without a company title
  • Build a brand and promote it to their target audiences
  • Leverage the right kinds of activities to generate leads
  • Nurture relationships with partners, advisors, referrals sources, prospects, and clients
  • Deliver repeatable, structured consulting engagements
  • Package and price their services with confidence
Without a roadmap, even the most capable experts risk stagnation, irrelevance, or burnout.

The Consulting Academy Promise

We don’t just teach “how to be a consultant.”

We help you bridge your expertise into a consulting business that commands trust and influence.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Translate your professional experience into a consulting framework that clients value
  • Design repeatable, client-ready engagements that drive results
  • Confidently market, price, and sell your services
  • Build systems for credibility, structure, and sustainability
You’ll leave as a client-ready consultant, positioned for high-impact work that delivers value and results.

Who It’s For

Corporate Professionals

Displaced, transitioning, or internal consultants

Translate your corporate expertise into an independent or internal consulting practice that delivers impact.

Clinical Psychologists

Therapists, psychologists, coaches

Shift from therapy frameworks to consulting impact. Turn your deep understanding of human behavior into advisory influence in organizations and business.

Internal Advisors & Consultants

Internal strategists, advisors, & enterprise-wide leaders

Elevate your internal consulting skills beyond your company. Build frameworks that create measurable results and strategic credibility.

Introducing the EDGESM Client Experience Framework

The step-by-step system behind every successful consultant.

The Consulting Academy is built around a proven process called the EDGESM Client Experience Framework (Engage, Design, Grow, EvaluateSM), a practical model that helps you turn your professional expertise into a repeatable, credible consulting practice. Each stage builds clarity, structure, and confidence, guiding you from “I think I can consult” to “I’m a consultant with systems that deliver results.”

STEP ONE

Engage with Confidence

You’ll learn how to meet clients where they are, uncover the real problems behind their requests, and position yourself as a trusted advisor.

  • Lead confident discovery conversations that build trust
  • Frame problems clearly to set expectations and scope effectively
  • Develop your consultant mindset — shifting from doing to leading

STEP TWO

Design for Alignment

Move from information to insight. In this stage, you’ll learn how to translate client goals into powerful, structured proposals.

  • Facilitate alignment conversations with decision-makers
  • Create proposals that communicate value and outcomes
  • Build partnerships instead of transactions

STEP THREE

Grow with Structure

Here’s where you bring your consulting process to life. You’ll learn to manage delivery, stay on track, and maintain clarity and authority.

  • Apply project cadence, check-ins, and scope management
  • Strengthen your executive presence and confidence
  • Build systems that create consistency and professionalism

STEP FOUR

Evaluate for ROI

Every great consultant knows how to close with impact. This stage helps you demonstrate results, strengthen relationships, and position for renewals.

  • Measure outcomes and present tangible value
  • Capture testimonials, metrics, and insights
  • Identify opportunities for ongoing work and referrals
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Why It Works

The EDGESM Framework transforms expertise into confidence, and confidence into credibility. It’s not theory; it’s a repeatable roadmap you can adapt to your own niche, clients, and consulting style.

How It Works

You’ll move from “I think I can consult” → to “I am a consultant with structure, confidence, and a repeatable process.”

The Academy provides:

  • Proven frameworks for client engagement and delivery
  • Mentorship from seasoned consultants
  • A community of peers building alongside you
  • Tools and templates for pricing, proposals, and positioning
This is not theory. It’s a roadmap to becoming a high-impact consultant with credibility, structure, and sustainability.

About Consulting Solutions, LLC

Consulting Solutions is a business consulting firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that offers services informed by the science of psychology. The business principal, Yvonne Kinney, is a Business Psychologist and PhD who researches individual, group, and organizational behaviors and dynamics in the workplace with the goal of better understanding how people think and interact with one another for positive business results.

Her firm works with organizations to understand the individual psychology of employees, enabling them to support and develop their employees, hire intelligently, expand and grow, improve staff performance, enhance leadership effectiveness, and ultimately, achieve organizational goals faster. Contact us to learn more.

Why It Matters Now

The market is changing fast. Expertise alone is no longer enough; structured consulting impact is what creates relevance, recognition, and revenue. Build the next stage of your career on your expertise, your terms, your consulting business.

→ Use the Readiness Questionnaire to help you determine if now is the time to translate your expertise into consulting success.

→ Explore the Consulting Academy in more depth. Review this summary of the curriculum and outcomes.

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