From Corporate to Consultant: Turning Your HR Expertise into Entrepreneurial Success

Most HR professionals are trained to be intrapreneurs, not entrepreneurs. Many have a passion for HR and the drive to make a positive impact beyond corporate… but don’t know where to start. They end up with a myriad of services they may not actually like providing, taking clients they don’t necessarily want to work with. The result is either they “build a job” vs. “build a business,” or they build nothing and return to corporate after a few months of struggling to find clients.

In this workshop, Kara helps entrepreneurial HR professionals gain confidence in their ability as an independent consultant and saves them time and money by giving HR Consultants a roadmap to clarity and focus. At the end of this training session, you will know how to create:

• a Menu of Services, including your Signature Service
• a defined Target Market & Model Client
• an understanding of your Business Model & Price Structure
• a Positioning Statement 
• a Marketing Strategy
• an onboarding process for your Signature Service

Kara D. Kelley, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is the founder & CEO of Clinical HR LLC.

After 8 years of putting her B.S. in Business to use managing the HR, strategic planning, marketing, web mastering, internal operations, and business development functions for a CPA firm (yes, she wore all of those hats), Kara established her independent consulting firm niched to the dental profession. She has 12+ years of experience educating clients on the topics of strategic business planning, HR compliance, leadership, tax and accounting, and marketing.

During her first 8 months as an independent consultant, Kara signed 12 clients and established herself as a Key Opinion Leader in her field. She more than doubled her client list and nearly tripled her firm's revenue in her second year of business, increased her revenue by 228% in 2023, and is projecting additional growth in 2024.

Kara has generously shared her knowledge and insight with the members of HR Consultants Mastermind since its inception in April of 2020. She's not here to tell you what to do as a business owner, but rather to provide guidance and give you the tools you need to feel confident as an entrepreneurial HR professional.