Consulting Success Podcast

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 and engaging message, and implement a marketing engine for consultants that actually works. Every conversation explores how to improve your business model to open doors to golden opportunities. This podcast features experts from various industries who share the desire to achieve success in the consulting business. They expose their well-kept secrets to get to the top. Hear the building blocks that started their careers and the most important principles they uphold to get through challenging entrepreneurial moments. Hosting the podcast is Michael Zipursky, CEO and co-founder of Consulting Success. Building businesses for more than 20 years, he has advised start-up brands, service providers, and billlion dollar corporations like Panasonic, Financial Times, Sumitomo and more. Michael is also an in-demand keynote speaker and author of five books about consulting. He's dedicated to helping entrepreneurial consultants increase impact and earn a higher income. And on top of it all, Michael has an inspiring focus on family and community. With this extensive advisory experience, Michael understands the consequences of hyper career focus. It often means sacrificing time with loved ones, which can lead to loneliness and rejection. At some point, you may feel like an outsider in your own home. Those who prioritize the grind can neglect their health and fall prey to severe diseases. Michael believes a consulting business can only find success when it supports your dream lifestyle, not the other way around. Every podcast discussion focuses on what it really takes to get hold of genuine freedom in your career. The aim is to help you live the life you truly want while constantly growing your business. Feel excited about going to work instead of letting depressing thoughts pull you down. Enjoy the meals you want to eat, buy everything you want to own, and above all, savor time with your family and friends. Have a successful consulting business balanced with stability, well-being, and comfort. Don't sacrifice what you have for the sake of huge earnings. Achieve the revenue and profit you want and make sure it does not compromise everything you love and care about. Michael shows you how to elevate your consulting business and reach those goals with a fulfilled heart. Want to learn how we can help you grow your consulting business? Schedule your free Growth Session Call today! https://www.consultingsuccess.com/grow

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October 19, 2026 • 17 mins

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What happens to your consulting business when clients believe that AI can do the work themselves? That's one of the biggest shifts Dan Bernoske is seeing firsthand, as many other consulting business owners are, as well. As the founder of Cortado Group, Dan helps private-equity-backed companies to accelerate revenue growth, and he is watching AI fundamentally change how clients buy consulting services. You likely are too.

Well, in th...

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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 instead of reducing it.Rather than ...

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September 21, 2026 • 14 mins

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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 shares how she went from believing a ...

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September 7, 2026 • 6 mins

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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, operator, and investor who has worked w...

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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 than 25 years in management and techno...

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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 learning, and digital transformation. What ...

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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 like McKinsey, Accenture, and Micr...

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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 but in consulting, became the ...

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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 one client relationship into an entir...

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Want to get personalized feedback and actionable insights on your consulting business from seasoned experts who've been in your shoes? The Consulting Success Clarity Coaching Program...

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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 every renewed contract like ...

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