Build a Sustainable, Strategic, and Scalable Consulting Business with a Consistent Flow of Ideal, High-Value Clients
The Consulting Success Growth System™:
The 4 Pillars You’ll Learn to Build a Successful and Sustainable Consulting Business
1. Profitable Targeting
Our proven process helps you identify your ideal, high-value clients and craft messaging that resonates deeply with them, creating more sales conversations. We'll work with you to narrow your focus and develop a clear, confident value proposition. You'll transform your marketing effectiveness while positioning yourself as the trusted expert your prospects seek and will pay cheerfully for.
2. Model Mastery
We'll work closely with you to create a custom, strategic, scalable Growth Roadmap and tailored optimization plan for your consulting business. We'll refine your offers, your pricing, your systems, and your business model to package your expertise into more productized services that resonate with ideal clients. It will allow you to scale, giving you greater revenue, profits, and better work-life balance.
3. Predictable Pipeline
Build a consistent pipeline to attract more high-value opportunities using our consulting marketing playbooks. We'll help you develop a plan to position yourself as a recognized authority in your industry. The Consulting Success® framework shows you how to attract premium, high-paying clients and build lucrative relationships in a way that feels authentic and eliminates the dreaded feast-or-famine cycle.
4. Scaling Freedom
Accelerate your growth by evolving from an overwhelmed, full-time worker to a strategic business owner. We'll help you establish proven systems we've tested and validated for close to 20 years working with thousands of consulting business owners. We work with you to build a streamlined, scalable business and brand that maximizes revenue, profit, and impact without your constant oversight, giving you the freedom to focus on exponential growth in your business and life.
Your Next Revenue Level Starts With One Conversation
Tell us where your consulting business is stuck. We'll map out exactly what needs to change in your business.
Proven by 1,500+ Consultants For Close to 20 Years
The Clarity Coaching™ Program has guided thousands of coaches, consultants, and consulting business owners worldwide in refining their messaging, enhancing their business models, and boosting their lead generation.
With over 17 years of experience, we’ve perfected a proven consulting framework designed for rapid learning and actionable results. This framework empowers you to build momentum, establish a resilient consulting business model, create a powerful marketing engine, and drive sustainable growth in revenue and profitability.
Here are some of the key success factors:
- Independently verified ROI: Clarity Coaching™ is one of the first consulting training programs in the world that's independently verified by The ROI Institute of Canada, a global leader in measuring ROI with organizations analyzed from over 60 countries.
- Proven long-term success: The ROI Institute's study found that clients who stay with Clarity Coaching™ for 12 months or more typically achieve an average ROI of 130%, with some reaching as high as 534%, which underlines the long-term value of the program.
- Confirmed higher earning potential: The institute found that clients increase their fees and earn on average $43,730 more per project than before joining — this is solid proof that our coaching program delivers measurable, tangible outcomes.
- Third-party validation of success: While results vary with every situation, the ROI Institute’s findings show most clients experience significant growth, with very few reporting less than positive outcomes — setting us apart in a world full of bold promises.
With Clarity Coaching™, you’re not just joining a program. You’re partnering with a rigorously tested system trusted by thousands of consultants and coaches worldwide. Whether you’re looking to raise your fees, win more clients, or scale your consulting business, we can help you achieve measurable, sustainable success.
AI Can Give You a Plan, Not What Actually Moves the Needle
You've probably already used ChatGPT or Claude to draft a proposal, brainstorm your positioning, or sketch out a marketing plan. It's fast, it's cheap, and honestly, it's pretty good at what it does. We're not going to pretend otherwise, and neither will the consultants who work with us.
Here's the problem though. AI can generate a plan for you in seconds, but it can't tell you whether that plan is actually right for you. It's drawing from the average of everything out there, so it tends to land you somewhere generic. And knowing what to do was rarely the hard part anyway. Doing it, week after week, especially once it gets uncomfortable, is. That's where we come in: not handing you another document, but working alongside you to put the plan into motion in your actual business, backed by judgment we've built from working with 1,500+ consultants over the last 18 years.
What AI alone can’t give you?
- A plan vs. the right plan. AI can generate a plan in seconds for anything you ask. What it can't do is tell you whether that plan is right for you. It draws from the average of everything, which is a race to the middle. We bring lived experience and expert judgment from working with 1,500+ consultants, so you head in the right direction instead of wasting time and resources chasing the generic (and often inaccurate) plan that AI hands you on its own.
- Information vs. implementation. Knowing what to do has never been the hard part. Doing it, consistently, especially when it's uncomfortable, is. We work alongside you to actually put the plan into motion in your business, not just hand you another one.
- A tool vs. accountability. AI waits for you to come back to it. It never notices you've been stuck in the same place for six months, and it never pushes you when you avoid the hard thing. We do.
- A chatbot vs. a community. A text box is fast and helpful, and completely alone. Clarity puts you alongside six- and seven-figure consulting founders who've already walked the path you're on. That kind of real connection doesn't come from software.
- Doing what everyone else is doing vs. an unfair advantage. When every consultant has access to the same AI producing the same plans, following it just makes you a clone of your competition. The consultants who pull ahead over the next few years will be the ones who pair AI with real coaching, mentorship, and community, not the ones relying on AI alone.
- A generic answer vs. real AI implementation. Clarity includes dedicated, ongoing AI implementation workshops built specifically for consulting businesses, covering how to apply AI across your marketing, sales, operations, and delivery. It's not something you'll find built for consultants anywhere else.
Whatever stage your business is at, this is the foundation everything else in Clarity builds on. Here's how we meet you exactly where you are:
3 Levels to Support Your Consulting Growth
We've leveraged our proven experience with over 1,500 consultants to deliver a more personalized approach through our Clarity Coaching™ Program's three distinct levels. This system is designed to meet you exactly where you are in your consulting journey and provide a clear path to your next level of success.
The Three Levels of Clarity Coaching™
- Ignite: For new consultants earning up to $150,000 per year. Build the essential foundation for a profitable, sustainable consulting practice with validation, messaging, and your first clients.
- Grow: For established consultants earning $150,000-$1M per year. Accelerate your practice with advanced strategies for consistent client acquisition, optimized pricing, and systematic revenue growth.
- Inner Circle: For advanced consultants earning $1M-$5M+ per year. Scale your operations to 7- and 8-figure levels by building teams, developing leadership skills, and creating systems that work without you.
How Our Three-Level System Works
- Tailored to Your Stage: Each level addresses the specific challenges and opportunities you face at your current revenue stage, not generic advice that doesn't fit.
- Progressive Development: Focus on stage-appropriate strategies that build upon each other and move you systematically as your business evolves, grows, and scales to create lasting, systematic success.
- Expert Support at Every Level: Access seasoned coaches, growth roadmaps, and proven methodologies designed to help you attract better clients, overcome challenges, and unlock new opportunities at each stage.
Most coaching programs offer a "one-size-fits-all" approach. At Consulting Success®, after working with 1,500+ consultants, we know success looks different at every stage. Whether you're launching your practice, hitting growth plateaus, or scaling to seven figures, our three-level system provides the clarity, structure, and support you need exactly when you need it.
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Are you tired of feeling like you're working alone trying to build your consulting business? Do you struggle to find growth strategies that work successfully for other active consulting business owners? If so, the Clarity Coaching™ program was built specifically for you. As a coaching client, or as we say "part of la familia," you'll have access to a wealth of support, resources, events, custom and group coaching to help you achieve your business growth goals.
- Connect with like-minded consultants: You'll be part of a community of ambitious, entrepreneurial consultants who share your passion for success.
- Get expert coaching from successful active consultants: You'll get hands-on personalized as well as group coaching from real consulting business owners who have helped consultants like you build strategic and profitable consulting businesses.
- Build your network of peers: You'll have the opportunity to connect with other highly successful consultants and industry leaders to expand your network and find new business opportunities.
- Get ongoing support and community: You'll have access to ongoing support from the Consulting Success team and community to help you stay motivated, accountable, and focused on achieving your goals.
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Meet "The Cousins"
In the Consulting Success® Coaching Program you'll be working closely with both Michael and Sam.
Michael Zipursky
Michael Zipursky is the CEO of Consulting Success®. He's advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over a thousand consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues. He is one of the world's top authorities on growing a consulting business. His work has been featured in MarketingProfs, Institute of Management Consultants, Fox Business, Chartered Management Institute, Duct Tape Marketing, and Conscious Millionaire. He is the author of 5 books on consulting and business growth, his most recent the Amazon Bestseller The Elite Consulting Mind.
Sam Zipursky
Sam Zipursky co-founded Consulting Success® and has over 17 years of brand consulting experience working with companies like Pluris Energy, Nikkei Ad Agency, Baywest Management and Hamari Chemicals. Prior to Consulting Success® he was an internet and design instructor at Van Arts Media College and Marketing Director at Japanzine Magazine. He helps clients in the coaching program with strategy, goal setting and accountability and guides them on developing a strong brand presence.
Meet Your Expert Clarity Coaches
Cloris Kylie, MBA | Clarity Coach
Cloris helps consultants build authority, grow their audience, and attract ideal clients through influencer collaboration. With a background in engineering, marketing, and project management, she is an international bestselling author and top-rated podcast host featured across network TV and major podcasts.
Patrick Farran, PhD, MBA | Clarity Coach
Patrick has 20+ years of corporate consulting across multiple industries and runs a B2B practice helping executives lead organizational transformation and align their teams. He previously taught and coached in the full-time MBA program at the University of Notre Dame.
Grant Fisher | Clarity Coach
Grant is an award-winning speaker, coach, and trainer with 25+ years leading small, mid-size, and global businesses. A certified business coach and MBA, he has trained extensively with Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, and Franklin Covey.
Terri-Ann Richards | Clarity Coach
Terri-Ann has 17+ years of business ownership and runs a leadership coaching and consulting practice helping ambitious leaders unlock untapped potential. She founded the sold-out BE event for female leaders and the leadHER Brave program, and hosts the Balanced Perspective podcast.
Michelle Sanford, CPCC, PCC | Clarity Coach
Michelle brings 25+ years of corporate consulting and executive coaching, helping mid-career leaders and entrepreneurs build a career on purpose. She focuses on mindset, clarity, and consistent action, and holds a leadership degree from DePaul University.
Missy Lafferty | Clarity Coach
Missy has 15+ years with global media and technology companies across strategy, operations, and talent acquisition, with a background in B2B software. She now leads an award-winning talent advisory practice helping leaders build high-performing teams.
Tony Velasquez, MBA, PMP | Clarity Coach
Tony has 25+ years in corporate consulting, project management, and complex system integration. He runs a boutique ERP consulting firm partnering with Fortune 500 and industry-leading firms through selection, implementation, and support of ERP and HRIS solutions.
Aaron Cruikshank | Clarity Coach
Aaron is a market and competitive intelligence consultant with 20+ years of experience and 850+ clients, from startups to Fortune 500s and governments. Founder of CTRS Market Intelligence, he helps leaders make confident strategic decisions and holds a Master of Public Policy.
Tara Wilson | Clarity Coach
Tara has nearly 30 years across tech, fintech, and retail, with organizations like Canadian Tire and BlackBerry. She serves as a fractional COO, brought in to lead go-to-market initiatives, scale teams, and drive results without the burnout.
Kathy Keating, CDI.D | Clarity Coach
Kathy is a technology executive, board-certified director, and multi-time founder with three decades scaling high-growth companies. Co-creator of the CTO Levels framework and co-author of "Liquid," she advises on governance, AI strategy, and cybersecurity.
John Quirk | Clarity Coach
John is a technology executive who grew PSC Group to $15 million in revenue as partner, built an award-winning "Best Places to Work" culture, and sold the firm to Netrix Global in 2021. He now brings advanced metrics to professional services.
Rob Malec | Clarity Coach
Rob is a sales and revenue growth consultant with 35+ years of experience and 24 years helping consultants and growing businesses build scalable sales systems. A fractional VP of Sales and author of "Sell More by Selling Less," he grew Purolator's US division to $18 million.
Cynthia Corsetti | Clarity Coach
Cynthia is an executive coach who built her practice from zero to mid-six figures after more than a decade in C-suite leadership. She works with consultants as a strategic thinking partner, bringing clarity, candor, and practical guidance to what is holding them back.
Joshua Herzig-Marx | Clarity Coach
Joshua has 25+ years building products at early-stage tech companies, including a startup acquired by Google. He has led product teams at GasBuddy, Alyce, and Brigit, and now provides coaching, advisory, and fractional leadership to founders and early-stage leaders.
With decades of combined expertise spanning vastly different industries, businesses of all sizes, and markets from around the globe, Michael, Sam, and our coaching team bring an unparalleled depth of wisdom and real-world experience to the table. As a Clarity Coaching™ member, you get to rub shoulders with seasoned professionals, tap into their proven strategies, and benefit from their insights to take your consulting business to unprecedented levels of success.
How Our Coaching Structure Gets Results Fast
Clarity Coaching™ helps you get more confident and strategic on your ideal client, develop clear messaging, a profitable business model and marketing engine.
Your Private Expert Clarity Coach - The coaching program starts off with a "strategic deep dive call" with your assigned Clarity Coach where you’ll get deep and detailed around your business and goals. During this session you'll develop a strategic step-by-step plan that you'll start working on right away to create momentum and progress in your business. From there you'll have regular private coaching calls with your coach to continue working on and optimizing your plan to ensure success.
Strategic Guidance from Michael Zipursky - You’ll have anytime access to personalized feedback on your custom plan inside our Coaching Advisory Board directly from Michael Zipursky as well as regular consulting workshops led by him. Michael has been building successful consulting businesses for over 20 years and has personally helped hundreds of consultants from all over the globe generate millions of dollars in extra income.
Individualized, 1:1 Coaching and Attention - You're not a number. You matter. This is not one of those group programs where you’re simply a number among hundreds or thousands of people. Many similar programs are generic, automated, and catering to large groups people at a time. But you just end up lost in the crowd, wondering if anyone even knows your name or your unique challenges. Instead, at Consulting Success®:
- You are our top priority. We only work with a small group of clients.
- You work with expert consultants and coaches. You get direct access to your Clarity Coach, and gain feedback throughout your journey from our whole expert coaching team, as well as the community of like-minded consultants working on growing their business just like you.
- You don't waste any time. We’re happy to talk with you! Unlike some programs, we don’t force you to post your questions into a Facebook group or wait for hours on a group call to simply ask one question.
- We only work with committed consultants. We don’t work with life coaches, freelancers, or massage therapists. We only work with dedicated and committed consultants.
Weekly Consulting Workshop and Q&A Sessions - These are live workshop calls where every single week Michael Zipursky and special guests deliver a powerful consulting workshop (on Zoom) followed by live Q&A and coaching. We will personally answer your questions. Ask as many questions as you’d like, Michael and our expert coaching team will stay on for as long as needed to make sure that you get all of your questions answered. Have a proposal you want feedback on? No problem, you’ll get live feedback on the call. Have a marketing material, client situation, website or anything else that you want to get help with? Bring it up on the call and we’ll get you the clarity you need. Each workshop and Q&A is recorded so you can watch and listen to them if you miss a call.
24/7 Coaching Advisory Board - You’ll be able to ask questions and get personalized guidance, reviews, and coaching from Michael, Sam, and our experienced coaching team (who are active and successful consultants themselves) and other extraordinary consultants from a range of industries. Everyone in the group is just like you - committed to improving their marketing and growing their consulting business. The board is an environment filled with vision, energy, and innovation. You can upload documents or post your questions 24/7. You also get the added benefit of receiving feedback from other consultants who are going through this process, as well as consultants in our Optimization program who are already generating $40k, $60k, even $100k+ per month as independent consultants. This allows you to get feedback from others at your level and above to accelerate your success.
Consulting Success® Framework - You’ll get online access to our Consulting Success® Framework and system which includes the step by step process as well as the latest best-practices for growing a scalable, profitable, and meaningful consulting business. The framework includes videos, scripts, and templates to help you generate more leads and fill your pipeline, strategies to increase your fees, and exact models to follow to win more proposals. Why reinvent the wheel when you can leverage a proven training system and best-practices that have saved consultants hundreds of hours and helped them win millions of dollars in new business.
I'm excited to share another win today! After persistent follow up, I just finished signing up another consulting client which is my 7th client so far since working closely with Michael, Sam and the Consulting Success® team. Of course I still have a long way to go but revenue is coming in, people are saying yes to my offers and I'm so much more clear on my business model including my pricing, packages, marketing strategy, sales process, and so much more."
I had always thought to myself if I were to start over again with my business I would get some advice or coaching. Then I realised that I was not reaching my full potential and was really just limping along with 1-2 weak prospects in my pipeline at any given time. Within 6 weeks of working with the Consulting Success® team my pipeline was full and the first new clients were in place. Most importantly I have learned to focus more on the unique value I can deliver and that has increased my own sense of satisfaction with what I do. Not knowing Michael or the Consulting Success® team I thought it was a risk to invest 5 figures in coaching, now I view it not as a risk but a necessity."
The team at Consulting Success® was instrumental in helping me to build a multi-seven figure consulting and advisory business."
My business was mid-six figures when I joined and today we're a multi-million dollar consulting business with a team of about 20 people. I've been part of this community for years and highly recommend it!"
I wanted to find a better way to package my expertise and services to convey greater value. That's exactly what I've done as part of the Clarity Coaching™ program. I have stronger and better defined packaged offerings, my pipeline is growing and my revenue is up 80% year over year. I recommend working with Consulting Success® to any consultant who wants to grow, improve and take their business to a higher level."
I've built a multi-seven figure business and the expertise and guidance I got from the program was instrumental. I highly recommend it."
I was heading into new territory and wanted to achieve growth fast. It felt like a big investment, committing several thousand dollars into the coaching program. I have to say, it was the right decision. From day one I got the support I wanted and needed including clear guidance every step of the way on my offerings, approach to marketing and help to win more proposals. As a result I've added multiple six figures to my business. This has been a very positive investment!"
"For years I was stuck in a hustle mentality with unstructured pricing, varying day rates, and unpredictable revenue. Working with Consulting Success completely transformed my business model. I've secured multiple long-term six-figure retainer clients, I'm building passive income through strategic partnerships, and for the first time I finally have a clear view of scalability.""
The Program has netted me well in excess of the coaching fees within weeks of beginning. Michael has provided invaluable coaching and insight that has really helped me to develop my business. He’s “been there, done that” and the experience really pays off. Top notch!"
I got burned out in the corporate world and decided I wanted to do my own thing, but the truth is even though I knew my expertise, I didn't know how to market and run my own business. I now spend a lot more time with my family. I make twice as much as I did as an employee and I wasn't doing too badly as an employee either. And compared to when I first got started in consulting, I'm making five times more with my fees. I feel excited about the plan I have in place for the future."
I just wanted to share with you that since joining Clarity Coaching™ and using your amazing proposal letter – I have landed EVERY engagement with that letter except for one (and that one was because the company was acquired and no longer wanted the engagement). I am flooded with work right now and the next thing I need to work on with you and my coach is how to strategically balance all of this work flowing in!"
I've gone from starting the business to almost reaching $1 Million per year in just less than 2 years since starting the Clarity Coaching™ Program. The ROI is tremendous."
The investment pays itself back immediately and many times over. It will never be a bad investment if you want to build or rebuild a lucrative consultancy."
Before, I was averaging mid 5 figures in income per month in net revenue, but last month, I cleared a very solid 6 figures. Plus, their approach to business is consistent with my own from an ethics standpoint, an integrity standpoint, and a family standpoint."
I’ve had at least a 300% return on investment from what I invested for Consulting Success, and probably even more than that."
Thanks to Sam Zipursky and the Consulting Success team, I can’t believe it—I just secured a 6-month contract worth $36K! I couldn’t have achieved this without the incredible support and guidance from the team. As soon as I receive my first payment, I’ll be back for more coaching because I know I’ll need your expertise as I continue to grow. Thanks again—I truly appreciate everything you’ve done!"
The Consulting Success framework helped me refine my messaging, and within weeks of implementing the strategies from the program, I secured my first paying client in my chosen niche of multi-campus churches. The clarity I gained in articulating my value—thanks to being asked the right questions in my coaching—has enabled me to effectively communicate how I help churches align ministry offerings across campuses to create consistent worship experiences. This experience has significantly transformed my approach and results."
Reactivating my network and following the guidance from Consulting Success has been a game-changer for my consulting practice. With their advice on my discovery offer, I highlighted urgency, clarified expectations, and positioned myself as the ideal partner for the project. The support didn’t just help me land this initial engagement—it also prepared me to offer strategic follow-up initiatives, including high-value consulting packages."
As a side note, I recently graduated from an MBA program where I focused on Consulting Leadership as my focus (major) - it was a good experience ... but I will say that the Consulting Success program has far greater value and has provided more connection and confidence in consulting."
This is the most successful year in my decades of consulting. I'm getting significantly more inbound leads—mostly from LinkedIn and my website—because I've been consistent in posting, building authority and following the recommendations I received during the Clarity Coaching program.
This year I've closed twice the number of projects than I typically would in multiple years combined. In the past, what I considered a good year pales in comparison to what I'm achieving now—this represents a substantial improvement.
I'm very thankful for the Clarity Coaching program—it's helped me stay consistent and put the right processes in place, and I can clearly see the transformational results."
Every Month You Wait Is Revenue You Won't Get Back
The consultants who grow fastest make one decision: they stop figuring it out alone. Your free Growth Session is the first step.
What Is It Costing You to Stay Where You Are?
Do you invest in yourself the way you ask your clients to invest in you? The consultants who succeed are not interested in change. They are committed to it. They put time and money into the one thing they control most, themselves. Choosing not to is not saving money. It is costing you, in lost clients, missed opportunities, and growth you will not get back. Here is a rough sense of how much:
The best time to start was years ago. The second best time is today.
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