Owning It

Name: Owning It
Brand: LEAP, LLC
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Take Control of Your Life, Work, and Career

By: Kris Taylor

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eBook | 12 October 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Starting a Consulting Practice May be Your Best Career Move

….and this book may be your best first step

If you have struggled with questions like these:

How do I create a meaningful career?
How do I make more money?
How do I take control of my career and do more of the work I love?
Is it possible to have both a career and a life?

Then this book is for you!

In Owning It, Kris Taylor shares candid insights on how she leveraged her professional expertise into a consulting business that has provided her with a six figure income for over 15 years. As the founder of Evergreen Leadership and now LEAP, LLC, Kris has built two consulting practices that enables her to do meaningful work, an income potential that exceeds what she ever expected and the freedom and flexibility to live life on her own terms.

Warning: If you are happy with your career, your earning power and your ability to integrate your work with the rest of your life, this is not the book for you. This is also not a book about selling in a multi-level marketing scheme.

Owning It is for professionals who want to launch their own professional consulting business and who want to learn from someone who has had a successful small consulting business working with companies, big and small, across the globe. In this book you’ll learn why over 50% of the professionals in the workplace will be working independently in by 2028 and why those who are currently independent say they would not go back to full time employment at any salary!

Pick up this book to learn about the workplace trends that make starting your own consulting firm a great choice for so many high performing professionals. You’ll be able to assess your readiness for making the leap to independence and identify any problem areas that you’ll need to overcome. And the best part is that Kris shares practical tips that took years to her to learn.

In this book you’ll discover:

10 trends affecting white collar workers that threaten traditional employment
Six personal and practical reasons professionals choose independence
Making room in the middle: the sweet spot between the big 4 consulting groups and temporary workers
Four ways to start your own small consulting business
Five must have skills for independents
Seven warning signs that independence might not be for you
Ten things to know before you go independent
Compelling reasons companies work with independent professionals
Overcoming your own resistance and fears when doing something big
How to get started as an independent professional consultant

As a special bonus, when you purchase Owning It, you’ll have access to download these free valuable tools to help you get off to a good start:

The Biz 101 Checklist which gives you the 10 steps to successfully launch a small consulting business
A recorded webinar: 10 Steps to Starting Your Own Consulting Business
A recorded webinar: Your Income Potential as an Independent Consultant

Industry Reviews

"Owning It" is a MUST READ if you want to start a consulting business and find a career you love!

If you want to learn how to build a successful small consulting firm while doing meaningful work, "Owning it" is a candid and clear outline of how to pursue that. It is a must-read, and I highly recommend it to anyone thinking of setting out on their own.

In my professional consulting experience over the last 20 years, I have never found a book that speaks so directly to my goals and needs as "Owning It' does. If I had had the benefit of reading "Owning It" 15 years ago, I would undoubtedly have been more successful more quickly in building my coaching practice and clearer about the steps I needed to take.

This intelligent, logical, relevant, current, easy to read book is an excellent overview of the steps to starting your own successful consulting practice. Kris Taylor shares personally in a way that most authors don't, regarding actual salary, billable hours, and a number of constraints I hadn't previously considered. She details her own ups and downs, which I found extremely helpful.

Undoubtedly this book will be useful to every potential or current consultant, no matter their industry, age or expertise. For women in today's workplace, it is a feasible way to carve a career that pays well, to reach their highest income potential, and to do it on their own terms.

Additionally, the book is an excellent and potentially sobering read for early career folks who may learn the downside of setting out on a consulting career without clear and strategic thinking. At the same time, it also offers encouragement and assurance to later career folks who are experts and can build a consulting practice and share their gifts to get what Kris calls "the power play".

Taylor's use of real-life freelancers' case studies is a great boon to the reader who is considering her/his own potential future path. The book speaks not only to how one can build a career they love but also to how to find the work life integration that is most fulfilling for them.

Johanna Wu, Ph.D., Merritt Wu Associates