Why your paper audit was only 10% of the story (PS: it is live!)
Finally. Doors are open for your measurement and transformation instrument that exposes your hidden career bottlenecks with accuracy.
It’s official: Consulting Edge is live.
Two weeks ago, I shared a simple manual 6-part framework to help you audit your execution performance. The response was overwhelming (thank you!): my inbox filled with notes from consultants, tech leads, strategy operators, and independent advisors all admitting a version of the same thing:
“I’m working 60+ hours a week, building endless powerpoints, running more meetings than I can handle, sacrificing my personal life, and still I’m hitting an invisible ceiling. I know something is holding me back, but no one will give me a straight answer on what it is.”
I cleaned it up a bit, because some of the messages had a few swear words in there: great to see people so passionate about their careers 😁
Anyway, today the guessing game ends.
I have spent the last year passionately building a tool to solve this problem.
It’s called Consulting Edge, and starting right now, the doors are open to every subscriber of Consulting Intel.
How does Consulting Edge work?
If growth in your career or practice has reached a plateau, and you feel you have so much more to give to your clients and your industry, I want to tell you something you rarely hear:
The problem is about measurement, not necessarily about “you”.
When progress is slow, you assume you need to reinvent yourself.
You buy more books or try to “work on presence.” You get pulled into tweaking the wrong levers, while months of effort, unmade money, and wasted energy slip away.
Consulting Edge is the first measurement and transformation instrument ever, that treats professional performance for what it actually is: a discipline that can be measured, benchmarked, and improved with engineering precision.
Instead of another feel-good buzzfeed-style 5-minute quiz or generic personality test, Consulting Edge evaluates how you actually execute in real-life situations, and gives you exact advice on what to do next.
After you run your instrument, your hyper-personalized Edge Report will land in your inbox within 24 hours.
The Edge Report includes:
Your Edge: A plain-language synthesis of your operating situation, from what is carrying you, to what is weak, and why.
Six capability scores: Granular, objective scores across the six capabilities of professional distinction Framing, Presence, Stakeholder Algebra, Synthesis & Story, Leverage & IP, and Commercial Acumen.
The Leverage Quadrant: A dynamic system map (only Consulting Edge can produce it!) showing your Compounding Strengths, your Clean Gaps, your Trapped Strengths and the upstream Bottlenecks who are limiting them.
Norm-referenced calibration: Clear benchmark data showing exactly where you stand against a global reference cohort of knowledge workers.
A 3-level action plan & “Done When” criteria: For each capability, you will receive a personalized concrete first play you can implement on live work this week, plus a 4-week installation phase, and then observable 90-day milestones so your growth is verifiable, not aspirational.
Personality tests & standard quizzes don’t work well
You have perhaps taken personality assessments like MBTI, DiSC, or CliftonStrengths.
They are fine for dinner party conversations, but they are totally ineffective for your career because they optimize for description rather than operation.
They tell you how you differ, but they don’t tell you whether those differences create impact and, importantly, don’t sequence what to fix.
Standard self-assessments don’t work well because of self-image bias.
Research in organizational psychology proves that declarative knowledge (“knowing what to do”) has almost zero correlation with how you execute under real-life constraints. When you rate yourself on paper, your good intentions obscure your actual default habits.
Consulting Edge is intentionally different.
Instead of relying on simple self-ratings, it uses a triangulated assessment architecture presented to you through a questionnaire:
Behaviorally anchored reliability scale: measuring the exact frequency and consistency of your actions under real professional life pressure.
Situational scenarios: forcing you to make hard trade-offs in ambiguous client environments.
Reconstructed work episodes: strategic open-ended questions where you reconstruct real recent situations from your active projects.
No single question or question type is trusted alone.
The system cross-examines your answers, looking for pattern convergence to expose how you actually operate when the heat is turned up.
By the way, if you read “Consulting” and think “Hey, I don’t work at McKinsey, this thing is definitely not for me”... Please STOP!
Consulting is a mode of work, not a job title.
If you influence decisions you do not directly control, if you are a founder pitching investors, a product lead selling a roadmap, an engineer driving architecture, you are consulting daily - unlicensed, unexamined, unmeasured.
The six capabilities of professional distinction that Consulting Edge uses to analyze your performance apply to you as well.
After all, aren’t we all “consultants”?
The subscriber launch window starts now
Let’s look at the numbers.
The standard retail price for the full transformation tool and personalized Edge Report will be $297.
However, because you are a subscriber to Consulting Intel, you can run the full instrument today for just $107 (60%+ discount).
This $107 subscriber rate is locked for 8 days only. On Monday August 17th, the launch window closes, and the price will go up.
Note: On the Consulting Edge website, you have the option to pair the Edge Report with a 1-hour deep-dive call.
If that’s what you choose, you will have the call after you complete your report and with the results in front of you, to discuss specific suggestions starting from a clear set of actions rather than from vague questioning.
(If you are interested in bulk pricing for a team, please respond to this email to chat about options)
You can spend thousands of dollars on a career coach talking you through foggy goals.
A single missed promotion cycle or a year of underpricing your advisory fees could easily cost you $50,000+ in lost upside.
Compared to that, $107 isn’t even a whole hour of advisory time!
This is a tiny down payment on the revenue sitting on the other side of your operational constraints:
Inside a Firm: Unblocking your primary bottleneck turns the not yets you have been accepting so far, into promotion and compensation conversations.
In Independent Practice: Fixing your commercial capability allows you to defend your rates, eliminate scope creep, and convert weak pipelines into active retainers.
And you can expense it to your L&D budget
Because Consulting Edge delivers a formal, science-backed capability & development blueprint, it fits directly into standard corporate Learning & Development expensing guidelines.
At $107, it sits well below the auto-approval threshold on most corporate cards. Moreover, at checkout you can tick the box for an accompanying letter you can present to your manager or HR requesting the claim reimbursement.
If you are an independent professional, this cost can likely be a 100% tax-deductible professional development business expense. Please check with your Tax Advisor, but it should be straightforward.
My 100% “No-BS” money-back guarantee
I stand behind this instrument completely.
Take the questionnaire. Read your personalized Edge Report. Study your Leverage Quadrant, your peer benchmark, and your detailed action plan.
If your report doesn’t give you an uncomfortably accurate, data-driven map of your operational constraints and a clear plan you can apply to live work, email me within 7 days for a 100% full refund.
No hard feelings, and you can even keep the report. I will still be cheering for you!
Some early feedback from people who run their Edge Report
Over the past two weeks, I have been offering Consulting Edge to a limited set of people, and dozens of reports have already run.
If you are still not convinced about the tool, I am going to leave you with three quick notes from professionals who have purchased it:
“This is such a magical work. Fuu***kkk. It’s like a holy guide book”
Senior Consultant, PwC, USA
“I framed all the examples from your report. You probably think I am over hyping that report, but it is really a compass”
Senior Manager, Large Bank, Canada
“The leverage quadrant visual alone was worth 10x what I paid. Already executing the week-1 play for a meeting tomorrow.”
Independent IT consultant, Health sector, UK
See you on the other side.
All the best!
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