A roomful of established practitioners running the same business: monetizing knowledge.
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Exclusively for Consultants, Coaches, Fractional executives, business advisors, trainers, speakers and founders of expertise-led firms.
The Independent Expert Advisory Council is a private room of successful experts with decades of experience, each running the same kind of business you do and each willing to tell you what they honestly think of your next decision. It is a single group with no franchise or chapters behind it, built so members make better decisions, faster.
Business Strategist and Consulting Firm Founder
Spent 37 years as a corporate strategist, consultant and facilitator for client teams at companies including Harley-Davidson, Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark and SAP. A TEDx and SXSW speaker whose work has appeared in Forbes, Inc. and on the Today show, and author of Better Clients. Higher Fees.
Business Coach and Mortgage Industry Executive
Founded and led a mortgage lender for 10 years, building a base of more than 400 loan officers and funding $3 billion in loans. Has spent 15 years since as a business coach and consultant in leadership development, culture and process correction for small business founders.
Speaking and Sales Advisory Expert
Five decades advising business leaders, entrepreneurs and professional speakers on sales, presentation skill and market positioning, with more than 3,500 clients worldwide. Author of numerous books on relationship-based selling and a member of the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame.
Technology and Leadership Development Speaker
Decades as a computer scientist in algorithm design and systems performance before moving into leadership development. Has delivered keynotes and leadership programs on six continents and was selected as a Congressional Fellow for science and technology policy.
Marketing Agency Founder
Nearly 20 years across ad agencies, startups and national health nonprofits before founding a performance-driven digital agency for health and wellness brands and other verticals.
You?
You have built an independent practice on your own expertise and want peers who will tell you what they honestly think of your next decision. If that sounds like you, request an invitation here.
One-off, private group
The Council is a single group capped at ten seats. There is no franchise behind it, no chapters and no corporate curriculum. Members drive sessions.
Members all monetize expertise
Every member earns a living by monetizing their expertise, so every member runs the same kind of business and meets the same criteria for inclusion.
Total confidentiality is the Prime Directive
Every member signs a confidentiality agreement. What is shared in a session stays with the group. The goal is a safe, trusted space.
No gurus, no selling, no funnel
There are no gurus here. Everyone gives as much as they take or more, and everyone is learning and growing, just faster and more decisively. Selling within the group is strictly prohibited.
Up to ten members meet each month for three hours on Zoom. Every session is structured, timed and led by a professional facilitator.
Members challenge assumptions, examine tradeoffs and surface blind spots. Issues are taken in depth and can continue between sessions through email or direct conversations among members.
Every member is committed to the others’ success, and the format is built so each session produces something useful regardless of who brings a problem that month.
The Council is not a networking or leads group. It exists to solve business problems, and while introductions happen naturally, they are not the purpose. It is not a sales funnel – nothing is sold here.
It is not group coaching or consulting, a seminar, course or training. There is no curriculum and no instructor, and members work on their own problems and act on what comes out of the sessions.
Those groups exist in abundance elsewhere. This one has a different purpose.
Every member is vetted against the same standards, to ensure a strong fit with the rest of the group. You are likely a fit if you:
All members are vetted against the same standards to ensure a strong fit with the rest of the group. You might be a fit if you:
New members are accepted only when a seat becomes available. DM the facilitator on LinkedIn to check availability and request an invitation.
In 1727, Benjamin Franklin started a club in Philadelphia called the Junto. A dozen tradesmen and thinkers met weekly, and each brought questions on morals, business, and current events for the group to work through together. There was no instructor and no curriculum. Members took turns leading, and the value came entirely from the quality of the people in the room and their willingness to challenge each other honestly.
The Junto ran for 39 years. The ideas that came out of that room helped found a library, a fire company, and what became the University of Pennsylvania, work that started as problems worked through by people who trusted each other enough to be direct.
Carnegie and Ford came a century after Franklin. Napoleon Hill described Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford as living examples of the same principle, a small group of specialists working in coordination toward a shared goal. Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs also belonged to long-running groups based on the structure Franklin established.
The Independent Expert Advisory Council is built on the same premise. A small, vetted group of people running similar businesses, meeting on a fixed schedule, working through problems in a highly confidential, trust-based setting. The format is nearly three hundred years old because it works.