Declan J. Holt

There is big business nowadays in professional coaching and professional consulting. Selling your expertise as a professional coach or consultant is a great alternative to the corporate life as you can start a successful coaching or consulting business right at home and work at your own hours.

Coaches and consultants have become a necessity in today’s fast-paced life and fast-changing business landscape. Many people need a professional helping hand that either a coach or consultant can offer to understand the problems they face in their life or business and guide them to make decisions and find direction so that they can find success and fulfillment.

Both consulting and coaching involves the use of a skilled, trained professional to provide specialist advice for a fee. However, each one is considered a different form of support.

Coaching is more personal as it involves more one-on-one counseling and mentoring. A professional coach guides and provides support for those dealing with a life challenge to help them create a more meaningful, fulfilling, balanced and successful life.

Consulting work, on the other hand, is tailored to cater more to business problems. Consultants are tapped to provide reference information and expert opinion about new technologies and complex projects before the business can make any major changes to improve productivity.

Some coaches and consultants will work together in what is known as a “hybrid” mode.  Clients get advice and experience from both the consultant and the coach to help them create solutions.

This book will provide you with information for both the consulting and the coaching business and provide you with the information you need to start your own consulting or coaching business. There are strategies and tips to help you land more clients and increase your income. At the end, you should be able to decide for yourself whether or not the consulting or the coaching business is for you.