Get your first paying clients before you quit your job.
Career strategy consulting for corporate leaders launching a fractional, consulting, or coaching business. Nail your positioning outside your job title, find message-market fit, and build a channel that brings clients to you.
Does any of this sound familiar?
These are the thoughts I hear most often from the corporate leaders I work with. If one of them is yours, you're in exactly the right place.
You spent 15 years becoming genuinely good at what you do. Selling it is just not the skill corporate taught you.
You've been saying it for two years. Maybe three. You keep waiting for more free time, but deep inside you know it will never come until you force yourself to start.
You post on LinkedIn, the likes come from colleagues, and no client ever appears. Outside your company, nobody knows what you can do.
Outreach gets ignored, nothing converts beyond people you already know, and you can't tell what's actually broken.
Your entire income depends on decisions other people make. One reorg can change everything, and you have no say in it.
Your path doesn't fit a template. Clear positioning fixes that: it shows clients exactly what you are an expert in.
You're here because you know
the corporate path is not the only one.
You want to explore what your expertise is worth outside your company and stop depending on a single employer. Together we turn it into clear positioning, a working offer, and your first paying clients.
Let's build a business that fits youFrom corporate success to something more
Victoria Sheer
- 12+ years in Product Leadership (SAP, Henkel, Aldi Süd).
- 6 years building on the side: a 2,000+ member travel community, 15 conferences, university teaching, an OKR consulting company.
- ~50% of my salary came from side business before I left corporate.
- Built a sales accelerator — I invited 10 successful startup founders to shape the system from their practical experience. 70+ corporate leaders went through it.
- Started my own consulting company on personal brand and LinkedIn optimisation: how to get clients organically through the right positioning and content.
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Client results
My offer
Best for professionals who want clarity first — a 90-minute portfolio review, but for your career.
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90-minute 1-1 session
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A map of your potential income streams
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A clear roadmap how to start
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Clarity on a realistic timeline, expectations, and your positioning
Does not include execution support
Best for professionals ready to go all in on getting their first clients, with execution support and accountability.
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10 focused 1-1 sessions
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Offer, positioning & sales pipeline built with you
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Audited landing page that converts clients
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LinkedIn personal brand
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Execution and accountability coaching throughout
What clients say
FAQ
We go through a structured sequence: positioning, offer, message-market fit, sales pipeline, first clients. Each session has one clear focus and practical homework, so you build step by step instead of planning forever. Most clients get their first paying client while we work together, and all of them leave with a tested system and a clear next step.
Yes. Sessions are 1-1 and scheduled around your calendar. Between sessions you need around 2–3 hours for homework. If you have been spending evenings reading about getting clients without making progress, you are already spending this time. You are just not getting results from it yet.
No. You keep your job the entire time. This is built specifically for people who are not ready to quit and should not have to. You build something real alongside the salary. If at some point you want to make a bigger change, you do it from a position of strength, not a leap of faith.
If you show up and do the work, you will make progress. That is not a marketing line, it is what the structure is built for. If you ever feel stuck, I offer additional 1-1 coaching at no extra cost until you get your first clients. I only take on people I genuinely believe I can help. That is what the free chemistry session is for.
Solo trying has no feedback loop. You do not know if the problem is the offer, the message, the channel, or the targeting, so you keep adjusting the wrong thing. Together we diagnose what is actually broken — I have solved the same problem myself and with 70+ clients. And you get accountability: every session ends with clear steps and homework, so you keep moving instead of overthinking.
That is a positioning and visibility problem, and LinkedIn is where we solve it. First we define what you want to be known for outside your job title. Then we turn your profile and content into a channel that builds visibility with the right people. Done consistently, LinkedIn becomes your main source of opportunities and clients — they come to you, instead of you chasing them.
Freelance means selling your hours for project work, often through platforms, and competing on price. Fractional means owning a leadership function for one or a few companies part-time — for example, two days a week as their Head of Product — at senior rates. Coaching and consulting mean packaging your expertise into your own offer and selling it directly. All three monetize the same expertise differently. In our work we find which fits you best, and many of my clients combine them into multiple income streams.
Yes. The client acquisition mechanic is the same across all three. What changes is the positioning and outreach approach, and both are covered in our work together.
The strategy session is for clarity: in 90 minutes we map your potential income streams and how to start. The mentoring package is for execution: we work together on your positioning, offer, and sales pipeline until you get your first clients. Many people start with the session and upgrade later — and the free chemistry session helps you choose.
