6-Week Bootcamp · Cohort-Based · Live + Interactive

The Consulting Launchpad

You have the skills. You have the experience. In 6 weeks you go from where you are right now to a consulting identity, a signature offer, and a clear plan for finding the clients who need you.

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$1M+
Earned as an independent consultant
6×
Her starting engineering salary
6 yrs
Building a seven-figure consulting business

You know you
have what
it takes.

The problem is not your skills. It is that you have not turned them into something you can put in front of a client yet.

  • You have been thinking about consulting for months — maybe longer — and you still cannot give a clear, confident answer when someone asks what you do
  • You have so much experience that you cannot see what is actually valuable — you have been doing it so long that it feels like "just your job"
  • You know your skills are worth more than your current salary reflects — you just cannot figure out how to package them into something a client would pay for outside of your company
  • You keep waiting until you have it figured out before you approach anyone — and the figuring out never seems to actually happen
  • Every time you try to work on this alone it gets too big, too vague, or goes right back onto the back burner
  • You do not need more information about consulting. You need structure, a deadline, and someone to push your work forward in real time
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If that is where you are — start here.

Six weeks.
Everything you need
to launch.

12 live sessions over 6 weeks. Each one combines methodology teaching, AI and tech demos, and a live build block where you do the work in the room and get feedback before you log off.

01

How to translate your career experience into a specific consulting identity

02

How to research your market and speak in the language your clients already use

03

How to build a signature offer — scoped, priced, and ready to put in front of a client

04

How to use AI to go from idea to offer to landing page faster than you thought possible

05

How to find the clients already looking for someone like you — and what to say when you do

06

How to run a discovery call and close your first client without it feeling like a pitch

Every week includes two live sessions. One teaching session where you learn the methodology, see the AI and tech demos, and build in the room. One coaching session where you bring what you built, get direct feedback from Katie, and refine it before moving to the next week. All sessions are recorded and available the next morning.
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Twelve sessions. One deadline. Your launch.

Dr. Katie Schwartz
Meet Katie

Hi, I'm Katie.

I have a PhD in aerospace engineering — four degrees total. I spent years designing aircraft and complex systems for some of the biggest names in the industry. I did everything the traditional career path asked of me. And then I started consulting on the side, with no website, no business cards, and no plan.

Within six months I had matched my full engineering salary while spending less time at my desk. My husband and I are both PhDs — dual income household, two kids in Atlanta — and the consulting business did not replace our financial stability. It expanded it.

Six years later I have made over a million dollars on Upwork alone. I make six times my starting engineering salary. I have retainer clients I have worked with since the beginning. And I did all of it without ever feeling fully ready — I just stopped waiting to feel that way.

I built The Consulting Launchpad because the offer is where most women get stuck. Not for lack of skills — for lack of structure and accountability to actually sit down and build it. That is what these six weeks are for.

$1M+
Earned on Upwork alone
6×
Starting engineering salary
PhD
Aerospace Engineering
6 yrs
Independent consulting

What happens
when you take
the first step.

These are real messages from real women — not from a testimonial form, from live coaching calls and community posts.

Student message: celebrating first Upwork jobStudent message: another Upwork contract for a Systems Audit

Women who
stopped thinking
and started building.

These are two women from the current Consultant Academy cohort. Different backgrounds. Different industries. Same decision — to stop waiting and start.

Tedi

From "Blinded" by 20 Years of Experience to 5 Warm Leads in One Weekend

Tedi is a pharmacist with 20 years in global oncology and medical education at a major biopharma company. She came into the program still working full time, with a head full of expertise and no idea how to translate it into something she could sell independently. She described feeling "blinded" by her own experience — she had so much of it she could not see what was actually valuable.

After working through the positioning exercises in the early weeks, Tedi tested her new consulting identity at an industry conference. She went in as a pharmacist. She left as a medical education consultant — and walked away with five warm connections and two discovery calls booked with decision-makers the same weekend.

When a conflict-of-interest issue with her employer threatened to close one of those doors, she did not treat it as a setback. She turned the work into a portfolio piece, validated her positioning, and kept moving.

5 warm leads · 2 discovery calls · 1 weekend
Jenny

18 Years as a Generalist — Then an International Client Asked for More

Jenny spent 18 years in higher education leadership before an involuntary separation from her role. She came into the program describing herself as a generalist — someone who knew enough about everything to be useful anywhere, but had no idea how to package that into a specific, sellable consulting offer.

Working through the identity and offer-building process, she narrowed her focus to fractional People Operations and AI automation work. She built her Upwork profile around that specific niche and landed her first client — an international engagement in Saudi Arabia, training a finance team on AI tools.

Midway through the project, the client's CIO got excited about two other manual processes he wanted automated and asked her to send proposals for both. A single training engagement had turned into a multi-phase, expanding project — before she had even finished her first six weeks.

International client · Multi-phase project · Sourced through Upwork
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Your name belongs on this list next.

Is the Launchpad
right for you?

This is for you if
  • ✓You have a real career with real expertise and you are ready to use it independently
  • ✓You have been thinking about consulting but keep getting stuck on what you would actually offer
  • ✓You want live coaching and feedback — not just more content to consume alone
  • ✓You need a structured timeline and a deadline to stop thinking and start building
  • ✓You are still employed and want to build this on the side — or you are in transition and ready to go all in
  • ✓You want to learn how to use AI to move from idea to offer faster than you thought possible
This is not for you if
  • ✗You are just starting out and have not yet built professional expertise
  • ✗You are looking for a passive income or get rich quick solution
  • ✗You want to watch videos on your own time without showing up live
  • ✗You are not willing to do the work and receive feedback on it
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Six weeks. Live. Built alongside you.

One client
covers this.
Completely.

The investment in The Consulting Launchpad is $897 — or two payments of $497.

One retainer client at a modest consulting rate covers that investment. One. And everything inside this program — the methodology, the live coaching, the community, the AI tools, and the Upwork Success Framework — is specifically designed to get you to that first client as fast as possible.

Over the past six years I have invested close to six figures in learning how to run a consulting business. Every single investment returned more than I put in — not because of magic, but because of the time it saved me figuring things out alone. This is the program I wish had existed when I started. I priced it so your first client more than pays for it.

"I make six times my starting engineering salary as an independent consultant. I started with no clients, no website, and no plan — just a skill set and a first step. This program is the first step, done right."

— Dr. Katie Schwartz, Founder

Not a course
you watch.
A system you build inside.

6 Live Teaching Sessions

One per week. Methodology, AI and tech demos, and a live build block. Not lecture — you do the work in the room.

6 Live Coaching Sessions

One per week, separate from teaching. You bring what you built, get direct feedback from Katie, and refine it before moving on.

The Community

A dedicated Circle space for Launchpad members. Post work for feedback between sessions and connect with the women doing this alongside you.

AI Prompt Library

Every prompt from every demo, organized by week. You never start from a blank page — copy, paste, customize, and move.

Tech Stack Tutorials

Step-by-step guides for every tool: Claude, Lovable, Calendly, Fathom. You know exactly what to use, when, and how.

All Sessions Recorded

Available the next morning. Sessions at varied times including evenings to accommodate women who are still working full time.

Free Bonus Included

The Upwork Success Framework

($750 value)

How Katie built a seven-figure consulting business on a single platform — and how you can use it to land your first client.

  • 01The exact strategies Katie used to earn over $1M on Upwork.
  • 02How to spot red flags before they cost you time and money.
  • 03How to position yourself to attract six-figure clients on the platform.
upwork
Katie Schwartz

Katherine S.

Atlanta, GA, USA

10:01 am local time

⚡ Available now

★100% Job Success✦Top Rated Plus

$1M+

Total earnings

79

Total jobs

17,220

Total hours

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Everything above — included the moment you enroll.

You do not just
get an offer.
You get a process.

Most programs hand you an output. A finished template, a completed worksheet, a sample offer. That is useful — until your offer needs to evolve, or you want to add a new service, or you are ready to go after a different client.

What makes The Consulting Launchpad different is that you go through the process. You do not watch someone else build an offer. You build one — in real time, with feedback, until you understand how it works and why. By the end of six weeks you have built one offer. More importantly, you have internalized the methodology well enough to build the next one in a fraction of the time.

The bricks audit. The identity formula. The market research. The offer build. The outreach plan. These are not one-time exercises. They are a repeatable system you carry with you into every offer you ever build.

Six weeks to
a consulting
business ready
to launch.

Enrollment is open July 13th through July 20th only.
This is a cohort-based program. When enrollment closes, it closes.

Best Value
The Consulting Launchpad — Pay in Full
$897
One payment · Full access
  • ✓6 Live Teaching Sessions
  • ✓6 Live Coaching + Feedback Sessions
  • ✓Community Access (Circle)
  • ✓AI Prompt Library
  • ✓Tech Stack Tutorials
  • ✓All Sessions Recorded
  • ✓BONUS: The Upwork Success Framework (8 trainings)
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The Consulting Launchpad — Payment Plan
2 × $497
Two monthly payments · Full access
  • ✓6 Live Teaching Sessions
  • ✓6 Live Coaching + Feedback Sessions
  • ✓Community Access (Circle)
  • ✓AI Prompt Library
  • ✓Tech Stack Tutorials
  • ✓All Sessions Recorded
  • ✓BONUS: The Upwork Success Framework (8 trainings)
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Enrollment closes July 20th · Cohort starts shortly after
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Got questions?
We have answers.

Stop waiting
to feel ready.

Six weeks. A cohort of women doing it alongside you. Live methodology, live feedback, and a deadline that makes it happen.

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