Identity
Act from your own authority.
Name the decisions you can own independently, separate your credibility from an employer’s title, and practise the conversations you have avoided.
Working output Authority statement and a plan for testing it.
The Independent Authority approach
Clear judgment.
Commercial evidence.
Deliberate execution.
Consulting defines the choices. Coaching strengthens your ability to act. Transformation establishes the conditions for results.
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For an independent consulting practice
The Counter Power Consulting
Operating System.
CPC-OS connects five areas that must work together. A weak link becomes a delivery or commercial constraint, however accomplished you are elsewhere.
Distinction
Make your value specific.
Choose a buyer, an expensive problem and a defensible point of difference. Test the proposition against real buying conditions.
Working output Buyer definition, one-line proposition and offer.
Ethical enrollment
Create decisions without pressure.
Use diagnosis, evidence and a clear commercial case to help the buyer decide. Establish boundaries and qualify out poor-fit work.
Working output Proof narrative, discovery structure and proposal.
Delivery leverage
Build repeatable delivery.
Capture your expertise in reusable methods, clear decision rights and quality controls. Use AI where it improves work and retain expert review.
Working output Delivery playbook, capacity model and quality gates.
Our commitment
The Counter Power Pledge
Independence should change who benefits. We commit 10% of net profit after owner salary to a ring-fenced Counter Power Fund, prioritising environmental and climate improvements alongside public-interest technology governance. A quarterly impact ledger will publish amounts, allocations and outcomes. Every client adopts a mandatory Anti Extraction Standard: a smaller practice must not reproduce Big Consulting’s extractive behaviour. No procurement theatre—just outcomes for serious buyers, backed by clarity and proof, without bureaucracy or discount games.
Working output A documented fund allocation, a quarterly impact ledger and a mandatory client Anti Extraction Standard.
A working sequence
Twelve weeks of focused work.
A 120-day execution horizon.
Authority and distinction
Clarify the buyer, choose the problem and test the proposition. Translate past work into credible evidence.
Buyer conversations
Develop the pipeline, sharpen discovery and use live feedback to improve the offer and proposal.
Enrollment and delivery
Refine commercial terms, define the delivery system and establish the operating measures.
Sequence is adapted to the client. The period through day 120 is an execution horizon; it does not imply an additional month of included advisory support. A $50k–$100k engagement is an aspirational commercial target, not a guaranteed outcome.
Measure the work
Evidence at each decision point.
Before
Baseline the offer, evidence, buyer access and protected execution time.
During
Track qualified conversations, proposals, objections and the strength of the commercial case.
After
Review signed work, delivery outcomes, margin, cash collection and what can be repeated.
Your next chapter deserves a clear decision
Make your expertise
work on your terms.
Start with the Independent Authority Scorecard. See what needs to change before deciding how to work together.
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