Become a Successful Independent Consultant

Would you like more flexibility in your career? Consider independent consulting.
You can achieve independent consulting success if you focus on your consulting “engine”—even before you start consulting. Successful independent consultants use a continual loop, where the consultant addresses each of these problems:

• Which problems to solve with clients
• How to attract clients with content marketing (avoid the slime)
• Create relationships with the economic buyer and others across the organization
• Learn from their engagements

Successful independent consultants enjoy all of these steps, and you can, too. In this interactive discussion, Johanna will lead you through your first iteration of this loop. And if you’re not considering consulting, learn how to use these ideas to get a promotion or increase your salary.

We ask that everyone have their camera on when joining this event. This helps us to create a friendly interactive environment and avoid being disrupted by Zoom bombers.

Our Speaker

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your complex problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see practical alternatives that help them achieve more agility in their work. With that knowledge, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development.

For almost three decades, Johanna has helped her clients experiment with agile and lean alternatives for every piece of their product development. As a result, her clients create more management agility which translates to better business results.

A prolific writer, Johanna is the author of 18 books and hundreds of articles about many aspects of product development. She uses her trademark practicality and humor to focus on what people can do—and not take herself too seriously.

She’s authored the following books:

• Become a Successful Independent Consultant
• Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
• Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
• Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
• From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
• Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
• Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
• Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
• Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
• Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
• Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
• Manage Your Job Search
• Hiring Geeks That Fit
• The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)

Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.