Portfolio Career Podcast

Creating Your Independent Consulting Practice with Will Bachman

Episode Summary

Will Bachman is the Cofounder of Umbrex, a community for independent management consultants. He started the community after leaving the leading management consulting firm, McKinsey, and starting his own independent management consulting practice. He is passionate about helping independent professionals thrive through his 340+ episode podcast called Unleashed. In this episode, you will learn how to better position yourself, the importance of being specific, and how to have better client discovery conversations.

Episode Notes

Will Bachman is the Cofounder of Umbrex, a community for independent management consultants. He started the community after leaving the leading management consulting firm, McKinsey, and starting his own independent management consulting practice. He is passionate about helping independent professionals thrive through his 340+ episode podcast called Unleashed. 

In this episode, you will learn:

- why the independent consultant market is growing

- how to think about your career and relationships with a five-decade horizon

- the importance of being specific as an independent professional; and 

- how to have better client context discovery conversations.

As always, this episode with notes is available on my website

Connect with Will through Umbrex