Turn Your Operational Experience Into More Income, Freedom & Flexibility
PROFITeer helps experienced operational leaders turn what they already know into a credible consulting career — and learn how to deliver the work professionally.
You’ve Spent Years Building Expertise. But Who Is It Creating Value For?
You’ve solved problems, led teams, delivered projects, improved performance and learned lessons that only come from real experience.
But for most experienced professionals, that expertise continues to create most of its value for one employer.
What if you could turn that experience into something businesses paid you for directly?
- More freedom over your career
- Greater income potential
- More freedom & flexibility
- Less dependence on one employer
- A way to turn experience into a commercial asset
Two Tracks. One Destination.
The programme is designed to help you both win consulting work and know how to deliver it professionally.
Track 1 — Become the Consultant
Turn your experience into a clear consulting identity, proposition and route to market.
WIN THE WORKTrack 2 — Become the PROFITeer
Learn how to deliver transformation professionally using the PROFITS Transformation Framework™.
KNOW HOW TO DELIVER ITBecome the Consultant
A step-by-step path from recognising the value in your experience to progressing towards your first consulting assignment.
See the Opportunity
Understand the commercial potential of your experience.
Find Your Consulting Identity
Identify where your expertise has the strongest value.
Build Your Proposition
Turn your expertise into something a client can understand and buy.
Go Undercover to Market
Start conversations and pressure-test your proposition.
Secure Your First Assignment
Move from interest to a real consulting opportunity.
The PROFITS Transformation Framework™
A structured, stage-gated methodology for diagnosing problems, delivering change and creating sustainable results.
But PROFITS is no ordinary improvement process.
It combines a disciplined transformation methodology with the people skills needed to create real alignment, commitment and ownership — from the boardroom to the front line.
Problems
Find the real issue.
Review
Build the current reality.
Options
Create viable solutions.
Fine-Tune
Select and gain commitment.
Implement
Prove the solution.
Track & Test
Measure and learn.
Scale-Up
Embed what works.
Transformation succeeds when the process and the people work together.
PROFITS was developed and refined by Steve Shoulder through more than 30 years of real transformation consulting.
It is designed around one simple reality: even the best technical solution will fail if the people responsible for implementing it do not understand it, believe in it or take ownership of it.
That is why people skills are embedded throughout the methodology — not added as an afterthought.
- Built to eliminate the 25 predictable failure traps that cause improvement initiatives to stall or fail
- Creates alignment and buy-in from senior leadership through to front-line teams
- Uses stage gates to prevent projects moving forward without sufficient evidence and commitment
- Combines structured process with communication, facilitation, influence and stakeholder management
- Uses a Done-With-You approach so the client owns the transformation rather than becoming dependent on the consultant
- Tests and proves solutions before scaling them across the organisation
The process provides the structure. The people skills make the transformation stick.
Could Your Experience Become a Consulting Asset?
PROFITeer is designed for experienced professionals who have built meaningful real-world expertise and want to explore what that experience could be worth outside their current role.
- Substantial experience in operations, projects, leadership or delivery
- A track record of solving meaningful business problems
- Practical judgement or specialist expertise
- A desire for more income, freedom or flexibility
- Curiosity about turning experience into something commercially valuable
Consulting PROFITeers
Elevate your consulting business with the Consulting PROFITeers Group.
Join experienced professionals, aspiring consultants and PROFITeers who are turning their expertise into greater income, freedom and impact.
Access practical tools, training, insights and a community built to help you develop and grow a successful consulting career.
- Practical consulting tools and resources
- Training and insights from Steve and the Consulting CoPilot team
- PROFITS Transformation Framework™ guidance
- Connect with other experienced professionals
- Follow the PROFITeer journey as we build and grow the community
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From Experience to Impact.
What Could Your Experience Be Worth?
You do not need to resign from your job or already know exactly what kind of consultant you want to become.
Start with a conversation. We’ll help you explore where your experience may have the strongest commercial value and whether PROFITeer could be the right next step.
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