CONSULTING BUSINESS COACHING FOR PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
Build a client-ready consulting business in 8 weeks
We’ll help you turn your expertise into an offer clients pay for—with a proven framework, expert coaching, and a clear path from idea to income.
Apply to PassportWomen have started
consulting businesses
Average weeks
to first paying client
Average first contract value.
Not bad for a "new" consultant.
New client revenue generated
before graduating
$10K/MONTH RETAINER
Lisa, a Fractional CMO signed a long term retainer working 10-20 hours/week.
$40K PROJECT
Nora, a Retail Manufacturing Career Coach for women, signs her first project just three weeks after launching her business.
$85K FIRST 3 MONTHS
Michelle, an AI Readiness PMO Consultant, signs 3 clients in 3 months, working a fraction of the time.
Why consulting? Why now?
The working world has changed—and that might be very good news for you
Isabel Londono
Passport Graduate
Companies still need smart, experienced people who can solve hard problems. They just don’t always need them full-time.
In fact, The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that consulting services are projected to grow at 3x the rate of overall employment over the next decade.
The old rules of career security are changing, too. AI is changing how companies work, how teams are structured, and what expertise organizations need long-term.
Nearly half of long-tenured women who were displaced from their jobs between 2023 and 2025 didn’t lose them because they failed. Their positions disappeared.
Yes, performance, experience, and loyalty still matter. They just don’t guarantee security anymore.
So what does this all mean for you?
Your experience isn’t becoming less valuable. There’s simply a new way to get paid for it.
Now is the time to take everything you’ve spent your career building and create more options and more income streams for yourself.
Because the safest career is no longer the one you’ve worked at for 15, 20, or even 30 years. It’s the one you have more control over.
HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS...
You get to determine your next step
Something has shifted for you. Maybe you’re still employed, but the next promotion no longer feels like the future you want. Maybe you’ve already left—and want to put your experience to work differently.
However you got here, it’s clear: you want more control over what comes next.
Sure, you could find a mentor, use AI tools, or spend months DIYing your way to the next chapter in your career. But you’ve worked too hard and accomplished too much to spend this next phase piecing it together on your own.
You’ve built something most people only aspire to. And regardless of where you are right now, the next step doesn’t require starting over.
The next step begins with what you’ve already built.
Shalonda Dean
Passport Graduate
Introducing Passport
Build a client-ready consulting business in 8 weeks—without starting over, risking your income, or figuring it out alone
You already have the expertise. But what if you could learn how to package, position, price, and sell that expertise as a business designed around the work you want to do and the life you want to live?
Watch this video to learn exactly what's inside Passport.
HOW PASSPORT WORKS
Three pillars of support
A clear plan to follow. The right people beside you. Follow a step-by-step curriculum to build your consulting business, get expert coaching to strengthen your decisions, and connect with accomplished women building alongside you.
The Curriculum
A proven system to build your consulting business.
The Passport
Playbook
The Coaching
Expert guidance to help you get it right.
8 Weeks of Expert Coaching and Support
The Community
Support from other women building alongside you
Lifetime access to The Hive Community
Pillar 1: THE CURRICULUM
The Passport Playbook
The moment you check out, you'll have instant lifetime access to our 5-step system that guides you one decision at a time.
Once you choose your start date, you'll get an email every Sunday outlining the lessons to watch, the workbooks to complete, and the coaching calls to attend so you always know your next step.
STEP 1
One Direction
What should my consulting business actually be?
After decades of experience, the hardest part can be deciding which direction to take it.
You’ll pinpoint your purpose, identify your zone of genius and the work you’re uniquely qualified to do. Then, you’ll align it all with a profitable consulting business you’re excited to build, with expert coaching and feedback along the way.
You’ll Walk Away With: A clear direction for your consulting business that’s aligned with your strengths and powered by purpose.
STEP 2
One Person
Who would actually pay me for this?
The more specific you are about who you help and the problem you solve, the easier it is for the right clients to understand why they should hire you.
You’ll identify the specific person you serve, the high-stakes problem you solve, and build a results-driven promise that clients can count on and will happily pay a premium for.
You’ll Walk Away With: A profitable niche that speaks directly to your person + their problem + the results that make you the undeniable choice.
STEP 3
One Offer
What am I selling and what should I charge?
Your expertise is incredibly valuable, but clients are looking for a standout solution only you can bring. Turn what you know into a premium consulting offer built around the value you create, not the hours you work.
You’ll Walk Away With: Your proprietary success path + flexible packaging + premium pricing that position your value like a seasoned pro.
Includes access to our “Offer Example Bank” with winning offers across 200+ consulting niches.
STEP 4
One Message
How do I explain what I do without feeling like I’m selling myself?
Nearly 70% of Passport women are introverts, and most have never sold before. You don’t need to become a salesperson. You need messaging that makes your expertise easy for the right people to understand, stand out, and hire.
You’ll Walk Away With: Your personal story + your 5-point pitch + a professional 2-pager to let your messaging do the selling for you.
STEP 5
One Launch
How do I actually land clients?
Great messaging only works when the right people see it. You’ll learn how to get visible on LinkedIn, start and close strategic conversations, and set up the essential business structures so you have everything in place to confidently take your business to market.
You’ll Walk Away With: Your visibility strategy + a proven launch plan that turns your network into paying clients.
Still employed? Follow the Stealth Launch Plan to start building your business with discrete strategies that let you test the market before you leave your job.
PLUS: a comprehensive personalized review of your Finish Line Workbook, ready to use marketing templates, and 7 custom GPT coaches
Apply to PassportFrom building a successful career to building a successful business in less than one year
Former CFO → Independent Winery Consultant with $20K in recurring monthly revenue by Passport graduation.
Allie Jones
PR Executive → Visibility Consultant with 3 × $30K consulting clients in 90 days.
Dionna Smith
30-Year Banking Executive → Construction Loan Consultant making $250K in her first year, working an average of four hours a week.
Susan Brown
Pillar 2: THE COACHING
8 Weeks of Expert Coaching and Support
You know your work. We’ll help you build the business around it.
From choosing your niche to pricing your offer, you’ll have experienced coaches to challenge your thinking, strengthen your work, and help you make your next decision.
Tricia Dempsey
CEO of ThriveHive
Lindsay Harris
Executive Coach and Passport Graduate
Your Start Date
Access the Passport Playbook immediately. Choose when your coaching begins so you can give your business the focus it deserves.
Live Coaching
Get expert feedback twice a week to strengthen your work and move forward. Every session is recorded and searchable.
'Ask a Coach'
Submit your questions and get personalized guidance between live sessions, so an unanswered question doesn’t stall your progress.
AI Coaches
Seven custom AI coaches help you apply the lessons and sharpen your work—available 24/7.
Expert review
Get personalized feedback on your Finish Line Workbook, then use it to refine your business before graduation.
8 Weeks + 4 More
Get four bonus weeks of coaching—12 weeks total to build, refine, and put your business into action.
Pillar 3: THE COMMUNITY
Don’t worry: you're not building this alone
Surround yourself with accomplished women and build relationships that can lead to collaborations, introductions, and clients.
You'll have a national network of women building and growing consulting businesses alongside you.
Collaboration sessions after each coaching call
Connect with seasoned professional women from first offer to signed clients
Get feedback, encouragement, referrals, and real answers
The complete program you need to build your business, not just learn about consulting
01. The Passport Playbook curriculum
Value: $15,000
Value: $15,000
Instant, lifetime access to your complete 5-step path to building a client-ready consulting business in eight weeks.
ONE DIRECTION · Pinpoint your strengths and shape a consulting business powered by purpose.
ONE PERSON · Nail your profitable niche + ideal client so you become the undeniable choice.
ONE OFFER · Package your expertise into a premium offer people are willing to pay more for.
ONE MESSAGE · Craft messaging that does the selling for you.
ONE LAUNCH · Develop a clear go-to-market strategy that maps out exactly how to build visibility, reach the right people, and start getting clients.
Plus:
- The Finish Line Workbook
- Offer Example Bank for dozens of industries
- 7 Custom GPT coaches for every step
- Customizable marketing templates
THE BENEFIT: You always know what to work on next, and each step produces the assets your consulting business needs.
02. 8 weeks of expert coaching and support
Value: $10,000
Value: $10,000
Get instant access to the Passport Playbook curriculum, then choose when your 8 weeks of coaching begins so you can start when it works best for your life.
YOU’LL RECEIVE:
- 2 live coaching calls every week – Live coaching on your direction, niche, offer, messaging, and the decisions you’re making as you build.
- Daily ‘Ask-a-Coach’ support – Get coached every day to get unstuck without waiting for the next live call.
- Optional private 1:1 coaching – Add individual coaching sessions whenever you want more personalized support.
- Searchable coaching library – Every session is recorded, indexed, and searchable.
- Expert review before you graduate – Receive strategic feedback on your offer before you take it to market.
- The Hive, for life – Stay connected to a nationwide network of women building and growing consulting businesses long after Passport ends.
THE BENEFIT: The flexibility to start on your timeline + get expert coaching support every step of the way, so you can build at your pace without ever wondering, “Did I do this right?”
03. Lifetime access to The Hive community
Value: $2,000
Value: $2,000
Surround yourself with women who understand the career you’ve built—and the business you’re building next.
A national network of women building and growing consulting businesses alongside you.
- Collaboration sessions after each coaching call
- Connect with seasoned professional women from first offer to signed clients
- Get feedback, encouragement, referrals, and real answers
After you graduate, you’ll retain lifetime access to The Hive Alumni community where you’ll get special invitations to networking events, bonus trainings, and more.
THE BENEFIT: More collaboration, more networking, more support during Passport and long thereafter so you never build alone.
Plus, these bonuses valued at $13,000
Bonus 1: The Business Essentials bundle
VALUE: $7,000
Get the templates, resources, and setup guidance to handle the business behind your consulting—from proposals and agreements to invoicing and essential technology.
BUSINESS · Legal business entity setup + essential business infrastructure guidance
LEGAL · Customizable contract templates, sample proposals, NDAs, consulting agreements, Statements of Work, coaching agreements + website agreements
FINANCE · Set up your chart of accounts, invoicing, payments, and tax resources
HR · Establish your payroll, benefits, and get 401(k) support
TECH · Email · Zoom · Calendly · QuickBooks · Step-by-step support for the technology your business actually needs.
THE BENEFIT: Skip the time, expense, and guesswork of figuring out your back office from scratch. You’ll have all the essentials you need to operate clean, compliant, and confident from day one.
Bonus 2: The LinkedIn client-getting system
VALUE: $1,000
Put your existing network and professional credibility to work—with practical training to strengthen your profile, identify potential clients, and start meaningful business conversations.
A three-part system designed to turn LinkedIn into a strategic business development tool, without requiring you to become a full-time content creator.
YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO:
- Optimize your profile to attract high-quality clients.
- Build visibility + authority with strategic content that positions you as the go-to expert.
- Find potential clients using LinkedIn + Sales Navigator.
- Start the right conversations with proven outreach sequences designed to book client meetings.
- Leverage your existing network to create new client opportunities.
THE BENEFIT: A focused approach to finding consulting opportunities on LinkedIn, without making content creation and cold-outreach your full-time job.
Bonus 3: Four additional weeks of EXPERT coaching
VALUE: $5,000
Keep your support as you put your business into action. These four additional weeks give you more time to apply feedback, refine your offer, and work through early client conversations with your coaches.
That’s 12 weeks of live coaching and daily Ask-a-Coach support in total.
Your Passport Playbook curriculum is available immediately and designed to be completed in just eight weeks if you’re working full-time. Then, you get to choose when your coaching begins, giving you the time and support to build, refine, and start landing clients.
Busy schedule? Traveling? Can’t make every call? You’re not alone. Every call is recorded and searchable, and daily Ask-a-Coach support keeps you moving between coaching sessions.
THE BENEFIT: Life doesn’t stop while you’re building your business. Get extended coaching support from our team of experts + choose the start date that best fits your schedule.
Everything you need to turn your expertise into a business of your own
VALUE
Passport Playbook Curriculum
$15,000
8 Weeks of Expert Coaching
$10,000
Lifetime access to the Community
$2,000
BONUS: Business Essentials Bundle
$7,000
BONUS: LinkedIn Client-Getting System
$1,000
BONUS: 4 Additional Weeks of Coaching
$5,000
Total Value: $40,000
Your Investment in Passport: $8,000
Pay in full
BEST VALUE-
Immediate, lifetime access to the Passport Playbook
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12 weeks of expert coaching + daily support, starting when you choose
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Lifetime access to The Hive community
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BONUS! Business Essentials Bundle
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BONUS! LinkedIn client-getting system
Pay over time
WITH KLARNA-
Immediate, lifetime access to the Passport Playbook
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12 weeks of expert coaching + daily support, starting when you choose
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Lifetime access to The Hive community
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BONUS! Business Essentials Bundle
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BONUS! LinkedIn Client-Getting System
The average first contract signed by the women we work with is $38,000
Still doing the math in your head?
Replacing your senior-level salary may be closer than you think
You don’t need dozens of clients to build meaningful consulting revenue. Here are three examples of how different business models could generate more than $200,000 a year.
PROJECTS
$30K per engagement
× 7 projects
= $210K/year
RetainerS
$10K/month
× 2 ongoing clients
= $240K/year
Hourly
16 billable hours
at $250/hour
= $208,000/yr
Inside Passport, the average first contract signed by the women we work with is $38,000, which means one client can change the math pretty quickly.
So can one decision.
Apply to PassportYou can have the strategy, the tools, and the support. But sometimes, what you really need is to hear from someone who spent years knowing she wanted something different, and finally decided to do something about it.
Meet your mentor, Tricia Dempsey
“Hi, I’m Tricia! I thought about consulting for five years before I said yes… ”
For five years, I told my husband:
“After this bonus.” “After this quarter.” “After this thing happens. Then I’ll do it.”
They were all perfectly valid reasons. But eventually, those reasons became what I now call decision debt. Because waiting has a cost, too.
When I finally made the move, I made a lot of wrong turns. I had to learn how to build a consulting business around the expertise I already had.
One LinkedIn post. Three clients. Thirteen hours a week. $500,000/yr that more than replaced my income. That experience changed the way I thought about what was possible for women with decades of professional experience.
I learned the hard way so you don’t have to. And after seven years of helping nearly a thousand women through this process, I’ve learned from them, too. Their questions, challenges, and wins helped shape Passport into what it is today.
You don’t need someone to tell you you’re capable. You’ve spent your entire career proving that. You need a path. You need the right room. And sometimes, you need someone to remind you: it’s your turn.
You can spend another year thinking about consulting while building a business that belongs to someone else. Or you can spend the next eight weeks building the business that’s yours.
—Tricia Dempsey, Founder & CEO, ThriveHive
What is waiting costing you?
Andrea Hogan
Passport Graduate
You could spend the next year researching, having coffee chats, asking AI, and piecing together a consulting business on your own.
But information isn’t the hard part. Knowing what to do next is.
Which direction is right for you?
Which opportunities are worth pursuing?
Which parts of your experience should you build around?
How do you make decisions with confidence when you’ve never built this kind of business before?
That takes more than information. It takes judgment, experience, and people who can help you see around corners you haven’t reached yet.
Passport is built on real-world experience of someone who started and exited an 8-figure consulting firm from the ground up.
Every lesson learned, wrong turn taken, hurdle navigated, and pattern recognized has been turned into the Passport Playbook you’ll follow.
Today, that experience has been shaped by 1,000 women across 200+ consulting niches, with more than $8.1 million in new client revenue generated before graduation.
You could spend the next year piecing this together on your own. Or you could spend the next eight weeks building it with a proven path, a community of women doing the same, and expert coaches who’ve already paved the path you’re about to take.
This is how you go further, faster.
Your questions, answered.
How can I do this without putting my family’s financial security at risk?
You don’t have to quit your job to start building your consulting business. In fact, almost half of Passport women are still working full-time while they go through the program.
Passport is designed to help you build alongside your current income, so you can validate your direction, develop your offer, and begin creating opportunities before deciding if or when you want to make a bigger career move.
The goal is to give you more control over what comes next, without requiring you to put everything you’ve built at risk to get there.
Do I have what it takes to succeed as a consultant?
If you’ve spent decades solving problems, leading teams, creating results, navigating complexity, or becoming the person others rely on for answers, you already have the raw material.
Passport helps you identify which parts of that experience are most valuable in the market and turn them into a clear consulting business built around your strengths, purpose, and zone of genius.
You’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from experience.
How do I find consulting clients when I don’t have a huge network?
You don’t need thousands of followers or a giant contact list. You need to know who you can help, what high-stakes problem you solve, and how to get in front of the right people.
Passport walks you through the client-getting process, including LinkedIn positioning, targeting, outreach, starting strategic conversations, consult calls, pitching, and handling objections.
You may also have more opportunity in your existing network than you realize. Passport women have landed clients through current and former employers, past colleagues, previous clients, and professional relationships they had already spent years building.
What if I'm not a salesperson?
You don't need a big sales personality. In fact, nearly 70% of Passport women identify as introverts, and most had never sold before joining.You spent your career building expertise. Passport teaches you how to position it, package it, and sell it with messaging that does more of the selling for you.
You’ll learn how to talk about what you do, communicate the value of your offer, start the right conversations, and confidently guide prospective clients from interest to yes.
What if I don't know my niche?
That’s exactly what the first two weeks are designed to solve.
You’ll pinpoint your strengths and purpose, identify the person you’re best equipped to help, define the high-stakes problem you solve, and validate your direction against real market data and conversations.
There’s even a No Woman Left Behind policy at the end of week two. You won’t move forward without clarity around what you’re building and who it’s for.
Can I realistically fit Passport into my already-full life?
Passport was built for women with demanding careers, families, travel, and lives that aren’t going to stop for twelve weeks.
That’s why the curriculum is on-demand, efficient, and flexible. If you want to complete it within eight weeks and build your business alongside it, plan to spend approximately 4–6 hours per week implementing the material.
Then choose your start date for when your 12-week coaching experience begins, which means you’re in control of the timeline. Plus, you get lifetime access to the entire Passport Playbook curriculum and The Hive community.
Passport works around your life, not the other way around.
Can I join while I'm still employed?
Yes! Almost half of Passport women are still working full-time.
You can absolutely build quietly while you’re still employed, and we even include a confidential launch track so you don’t have to announce your new business on LinkedIn or put it on your employer’s radar before you’re ready.
Your transition can happen on your timeline, with your current career and income still intact
What happens after Passport?
Passport is the beginning, not the end of the support available to you.
You’ll keep lifetime access to the Passport curriculum and The Hive community. And when you’re ready to move from building your consulting business to growing it, Passport graduates have the opportunity to continue into Passport Masters, ThriveHive’s next-level program focused on building a consistent pipeline, signing clients, and creating more predictable income.
Passport gets you client-ready. Masters helps you grow what you built.
See what changes when you have the right support behind you.
"The critical thinking was worth the price of admission alone, and I loved being pushed to revise and reiterate even when I thought I was 'done.' Add in the tech and tools, and it's a program built for real results, not just inspiration."
– Nicole Rogers
"In just 8 weeks, I've gained so much knowledge, so much confidence, and so much understanding of my potential. The ThriveHive coaches are beyond incredible."
— Marissa Rubinetti
Let’s make sure Passport is right for you.
