Building your very own consultancy business is perhaps the most transformative path you could take as a professional seeking to take firm control of both your career and your life. Consulting provides you with an unrivaled scope to put your passion and expertise out into the world, whilst simultaneously living a more flexible and fulfilling lifestyle. Furthermore, you allow yourself the opportunity to sculpt a profitable business intrinsically centered around your vision. The business that you build will be uniquely yours as it is founded in your experience, insights and the value that you will provide your clients. 

One of the most rewarding elements of starting your own consulting business, and one you have likely heard talked about countless times, is the freedom that it offers. Forget being married to that traditional, rigid 9-5 schedule (which will all know rarely actually ends at 5). Consulting allows you the opportunity to handpick only the projects that truly excite you and allocate the hours you will take to fulfill them. Driven by your passions, those hours that you do work will hardly feel like work at all. By making a shift over to consultancy, you will take back your time and with it control over your life with both hands. You grant yourself the freedom to live a life centered around your interests and expertise as opposed to your obligations. 

With this autonomy, it is in your hands to design a business that works for your lifestyle rather than the other way around. From this standpoint, the possibilities are limitless - you only need to use your imagination! You want to work remotely whilst traveling parts of the world that you never thought you’d have time to see? Start booking your flights! Finally going to start training for that marathon you’ve been talking about? Lace up your sneakers! Or do you just want to sit down and make time for the people that you love the most? With consultancy, the choice is all yours. 

Aside from personal freedom, building a consultancy business also means you are creating a platform with which to expand your reach and influence within your field of expertise. Unlike working in a traditional, corporate setting, you are not constricted to one set of organizational goals (a set of goals that were not defined by you no less). Instead, you have free rein to work alongside clients and industries of your choosing, impacting both individuals and organizations of which you have a genuine interest in on a deeper level. You can use the expertise that you have garnered over the years to enact real change and the best part about it is that you can choose where this change happens. Via workshops, speaking engagements, and strategic consulting you can influence larger audiences and begin the process of establishing yourself as a thought leader in your field. 

Finally, and most meaningfully of all, building your own consulting business provides you with the opportunity to create a lasting impact on your clients and industry. By sharing your expertise and unique strategies, you will shape the trajectory of businesses, inspire new thought processes in others and see clients achieve their goals. In this way, you will become a catalyst for transformation. What's more, the ripple effect of your work will echo out far beyond your immediate circle of clients, throughout your field and perhaps even further. It goes without saying that assisting others in fulfilling their goals and achieving growth massively strengthens your personal brand. However, the true value in this is the sense of purpose that you will gain. There is no feeling quite like knowing that you played an integral role in helping someone (or better yet a collective of people) achieve their dreams. 



Making the decision to build your own consulting business may seem like a career choice but in actual fact, it is so much more. It represents the opportunity to take back control of your life by monetizing your expertise and your passion. Becoming your own boss will afford you freedom to design a lifestyle of your choosing; extra time to pour into your family, travel or personal projects. As if the autonomy and financial benefits were not enough, consulting offers you the platform to make real change in your industry and indeed the world at large. You will be able to position yourself as a thought leader in your field, whilst enabling others to reach their goals. Starting your own consulting firm is much more than a career choice, it is taking back the reins on your own life, defining a legacy founded in passion, purpose and lasting change.