From Campus Roles to Independent Work

Many faculty and staff are considering expanding their impact beyond their current campus, sharing their expertise more broadly, finding greater flexibility, or aligning their work more closely with their values. Whether you’re exploring a side hustle, transitioning to full-time independent work, or seeking smarter ways to run your practice, this session will help you imagine what’s possible, avoid common pitfalls, and move forward strategically.

Engagement Pathways

Step 1: Free Workshop → Step 2: Sprint → Step 3: Runway → Step 4: Coaching

Free Workshop: A free and accessible way to begin to explore your path and see if the next steps are right for you.
Sprint: A four-session foundation for launching your independent work with clarity, confidence, competence, and conviction.
Runway: A deeper, group coaching experience to help you apply what we cover in the Sprint in your practice.
Coaching: Individual and confidential support through the Runway to tailor strategies to your specific circumstances.

Benefits

Participants will leave with clarity about what’s right for them, confidence that they can do this, competence to run a smart and sustainable practice, and conviction to move forward.

Clarity
“I’m just not sure if this is right for me.” Good. This isn’t the right move for everyone, but it might be the right move for you. This experience will help you move from an idea you ponder on the tough days to a real-life test case you can explore thoroughly and decide if this is the right move for you (or not) and how you want to make it.

Confidence
“This is too risky. I’m too afraid to make the leap.” Making a smart transition can help reduce the risk and put the fear into perspective. By making smart choices with guidance from an experienced leader and learning from others’ journeys, you can make this a wise move for you and those who depend on you.

Competence
“I’m not sure I can run my own business.” You don’t need an MBA to run a simple solo practice. In fact, keeping it simple, streamlined, and efficient will allow you to focus on serving and living a life even more aligned with your values.

Conviction
“I hate selling anything, especially myself.” None of us wants to be a shady influencer posting pictures of every meal we have on Instagram. In fact, doing so will undermine your brand and positioning. You can make the move with integrity and authenticity, partnering with people and organizations to expand your impact. When this is your belief and focus, not inviting people to work with you feels out of alignment.

Outcomes

Explore a side hustle to supplement your campus role or move to full-time independent work.
Launch your offerings with clarity, confidence, competence, and conviction.
Build a sustainable practice that works for you.

Register

The Sprint, Runway, and Coaching are each $590, but you can get discounts through the following packages.

Details: Sprint, Runway, & Coaching

Sprint

This practical, higher-ed–specific workshop series will help you clarify your content, define your way of working, prepare for launch, and build smart business operations. Whether you’re exploring a side hustle, preparing to go full-time, or already independent and ready to run your practice more effectively, this series will help you move forward with clarity, confidence, competence, and conviction.

Four 90-minute sessions diving deep into your content, way, launch, and business operations.

Session 1: Your Content (Dec. 4) – Turn your expertise into offerings that serve others.
Session 2: Your Way (Dec. 18) – Design independent work that fits your life and values.
Session 3: Your Launch (Jan. 8) – Create a strategic and authentic plan to launch your practice.
Session 4: Your Business (Jan. 22) – Build a simple and sustainable foundation for your business.

Session 1: Your Content: Dec. 4, 2-3:30pm CT

Explore how to turn your expertise into content that is valuable to others. We will explore different types of content, different strategies for creating content, and help you build on your expertise and experience.

Discover what makes your expertise valuable and transferable beyond your institution.

Identify your signature topics and differentiators.
Turn your expertise and experience into tangible offerings (frameworks, models, visuals, acronyms).
Content creation and intellectual property strategies: acknowledgement, aggregation, attribution
Create a clear outcomes-based value proposition for clients and audiences.

Session 2: Your Way: Dec. 18, 2-3:30pm CT

Consider how you want to engage with future audiences in a way that works for you. Finding your way is about identifying how you can be of service to others in ways that energize you, put you in your zone of genius, and are sustainable.

Design independent work that fits who you are and how you want to live.

Identify your zone of genius and design your practice around it.
Explore your ideal mix of engagement (speaking, coaching, consulting, training, and facilitating).
Choose your audience: higher ed, corporate, nonprofit, or hybrid.
Align with your lifestyle: virtual vs. in-person, local vs global, solo vs. collaboration.

Session 3: Your Launch: Jan. 8, 2-3:30pm CT

Create a 6-month launch plan to share your offerings to others. This will help you go from brainstorming ideas to bookings with strategy and integrity.

Set yourself up for credibility and momentum.

Clarify your audience and value proposition.
Develop your professional assets (headshot, bio, one-pager, website, or LinkedIn profile).
Plan your first public announcement—emails, posts, blog, newsletter, launch event.
Make the most of your “one launch” moment through clarity and intentional visibility.

Session 4: Your Business: Jan. 22, 2-3:30pm CT

Gain insights into business operations that will help you create the structures and systems to help you run an efficient and smooth business, so you can focus on serving others. We will discuss recommendations and tools as well as what you need and what you don’t.

Build a simple, clean, ethical, and sustainable business foundation.

LLC, insurance, accounting, taxes, EIN, contracts, pricing, and per diem.
Messaging: social media, blog, newsletter, podcasts, YouTube
Manage finances: separate accounts, business credit, revenue tracking, expenses, travel, home office, business expenses.
Tools: scheduling, storage, communication, invoicing, and travel systems.

Runway

Four 90-minute group coaching sessions to dive deeper, unpack specifically, and learn with and from each other.

Your Content Group Coaching: February
Your Way Group Coaching: March
Your Launch Group Coaching: April
Your Business Group Coaching: May

Individual Coaching

Four 30-minute individual coaching sessions each month for insights and input specific to you.

Ready to explore what independent work could look like for you?