Corporate to Solo in 12 weeks
Twenty years or more behind you. You are wondering whether there is a life outside corporate, and you like the idea of more flexibility. Maybe you cannot see how a practice of your own would actually work. Maybe you have already started one and you are drowning in the admin.
We build your business together, set you up with your new AI workforce, and automate your operations to keep you running.
- Twelve weeks. One ninety minute session a week, Tuesday lunchtime
- Plus three months of weekly support
- Your AI workforce built alongside it, week by week
- Next intake: Tuesday 12 January 2027
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Free Diagnostic
10 minutes, and an answer to what people would pay you for, based on things that already happened to you.
What would people pay me forFree Masterclass
A live masterclass looking into what a Corporate to Solo business with an AI workforce really looks like, and how it could benefit your business.
Register for the masterclassMy story: I put my hand up without a plan
Sixteen years inside two banks, watching how they decided what people were worth. Then I put my hand up for redundancy and had to work that out about myself, with no institution behind me.
All I knew was that I did not want to take a role I did not really want because I needed the money. I wanted options. That is where Next Position Advisory started. On that journey I learned a lot, I made some mistakes, and I had a whole lot of fun.
Now I want to help you do the same.
I was overwhelmed
When I started my own solo practice I was overwhelmed with so many things:
- The amount of advice out there. Do this, do that
- Working out who the right people to listen to were
- Which tools I should be using
- Self doubt about why on earth someone would pay me outside of my company
- Anxiety about doing cold outreach (you don't have to!!)
- Guilt about not doing all the things
If you have started looking, you have met most of that list already.
This is why I built the S.I.M.P.L.E. method
Six key steps, and nothing else. No fluff, no mountains of content, no cold outreach. One offer, and one system that fills it.
S.I.M.P.L.E. Six key steps. Simple because you're building your workforce aligned to it.
Both columns, every week, in one programme. The right-hand column runs the left-hand one, row for row.
That right-hand column is not a diagram of what is theoretically possible. It is my own workforce, running this practice, and it has its own page: who is in it, what each one does, and the three rules none of them is allowed to overrule.
How I can help
One of these three is true for you this week. Whichever it is, there is one thing to do next, and it is not a menu.
One
You are already using AI every day, and it still does not sound like you.
You have read enough about agents to know you want some, and not enough to know which. Two sessions of forty-five minutes, two weeks apart, one to one. You leave with a brain that knows your practice, a how file for its voice, and your first agents running on your own material.
Two
You have decided, and you still describe what you do differently every time somebody asks.
Three things you could sell and no way of choosing between them, and a price that moves depending on who is asking. Four sessions of forty-five minutes, one a week, one to one. You leave with one offer, on one page, with a price on it.
Three
You have decided, and now you have to actually build it.
Twelve months of working it out alone, in an order nobody has told you, while the money runs down. That is the version I would like to spare you.
Not sure independent is the answer at all? Start with what people would pay you for. It is free, and it is the step before any of these three. What each one costs and when each one opens.
The same thing decides whether anyone pays you
Twenty years of experience buys you one hearing. It does not buy you a client.
What people buy is a hole they can name, that you can fill, that costs them more to leave open than to close. That is the same test as the one in the room, and almost nobody leaving corporate has been made to answer it.
You spent years inside an organisation that supplied the context. Nobody asked you to state what you were for, because your title did it for you. Outside, the title does nothing, and you have to say the sentence it was standing in front of.
The first year usually goes on a website instead. It is the comfortable job, which is why it goes first.
What people say
These are from career advisory clients. The 12-Week Studio runs for the first time in January 2027.
I initially connected with Lisa because her insights on the challenges of the modern workplace resonated deeply with my own experience. After decades in senior leadership, returning to the job market felt like navigating an entirely different world. Lisa's guidance has been pivotal for me. She provided the frank, honest feedback I needed to successfully re-position my executive profile. Her ability to challenge conventional thinking while offering practical and modern strategies is a rare find. For any senior leader looking to rediscover their purpose and navigate a major career pivot with confidence, Lisa is an invaluable partner.
She brought an independent, outside read on my experience and how it holds up in the market, a well-benchmarked perspective that's hard to get from inside your own network. She was also a sharp sounding board, pressure-testing my thinking and sharpening how I frame my work across my CV, LinkedIn, and conversations with hiring managers. Structured sessions, clear written follow-ups, and direct, practical advice throughout.
I'm currently working with Lisa as I navigate my next career move, and I can't recommend her highly enough. Drawing on her corporate experience and coaching skills, Lisa brings valuable insight, perspective, and guidance to important career decisions. Her attention to detail and clarity of vision are exceptional. I look forward to continuing to work with Lisa beyond this transition, as she has become a trusted partner in helping me shape and navigate my longer-term career path.
I worked with Lisa on a recent career move and I couldn't recommend her more. Her previous corporate experience combined with excellent coaching and mentoring skills add huge value for anyone taking and acting on a major career decision. I will also continue working with Lisa in my new role.
Four questions people ask before they get in touch
“Do I have to leave first?”
No, and working it out while you still have a salary is the better version. Start with the free masterclass on 10 November, or the CHF 295 self-paced course on building your AI workforce, which you can do at your own pace and which credits in full against a Studio seat. The Studio itself needs three hours a week at minimum, five to eight to give it the attention it deserves, so that one is for people with notice in or already out.
“I don't even know what I'd do it on.”
That is the normal starting position. The answer is almost never a new idea. It is usually the questions colleagues brought you that were not your job, and nobody logged those because no process captured them. People came anyway.
“Isn't this market saturated?”
With people who have read about it, yes. With people who have run the thing they are now advising on, much less so. Your twenty years is the moat, and it is also the thing people find hardest to describe.
“I am not technical. Is the AI part going to be beyond me?”
Every agent is installed live, in the group, in the week that has the task it is for. Only the first is self-installed, and only because it is simple enough to survive a written guide. You direct them in plain English. If you can brief a person, you can brief one of these.
The rest of them, including the ones people do not ask out loud.
Who this is for
This is for ex-corporate people with twenty years or more experience behind them, building a coaching, advisory or consulting practice around what they already know. If that is not what you are building, I am not the right person.