Kriitmaa Coaching & Consulting

Portfolio Career Playbook for Social Impact Professionals - Cohort 1 (Jan 2026)

Cohort 2 (Fall 2026)

Define your niche, services, pricing, and business development rhythm so consulting becomes stable and aligned with the life you want. 

Former COO | Social Impact Strategy

Kelsi Kriitmaa, PhD 

Former COO, strategist and coach with 20+ years in consulting and social impact

The Portfolio Career Playbook for Social Impact Professionals

Consultant

Director

One Health/Global Health Security Advisor 

Senior EWD Partnership Manager

Founder & Principal

EMEA Tech Philanthropy Lead

Founder

Director Timoun Consulting

The Global Fund

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Gavi

WHO Foundation

OECD ️ Better Policies for Better Lives

WHAT TO EXPECT8+ hours of live learning: Two 60-minute sessions each week for four weeks, a live lesson on Tuesdays and office hours on Thursdays. The course is designed to fit alongside full-time work and gives you focused, actionable guidance without overwhelm.Each Live Lesson blends practical frameworks, sector-specific examples, and live coaching to help you apply the concepts right away. Office Hours offer space to refine your niche, services, pricing, business development rhythm, and visibility strategy with real-time support. This is where we unblock challenges and deepen your confidence.Assignments are short and targeted, typically requiring 1 to 4 hours per week depending on your goals, available time, and stage of your consulting practice. Each assignment builds toward a final Portfolio Career Roadmap.You’ll learn by observing real-time coaching, doing the exercises yourself, and engaging with peers who are building their consulting practice alongside you. This course gives you the clarity, structure, systems, and confidence to build a consulting practice that works, on your terms, in your season of life.

Go from uncertain to clear, confident, and running a sustainable practice.

Define a clear consulting niche that clients understand

Package services that are easy to sell and deliver

Price your work confidently and sustainably

Build a simple, repeatable business development rhythm

Use your network strategically without feeling salesy

Design a portfolio career beyond pure consulting

It ensures you can apply the frameworks immediately to real client needs, sector norms, and context-specific challenges.

Experience in social impact or adjacent fields

Building a sustainable business requires growth through consistent steps; even tiny actions each week build clarity, confidence, momentum

Willingness to invest 3-4 hours / week

We work on positioning, pricing, and visibility, so being able to articulate your ideas clearly accelerates your progress.

Comfort communicating in English

For social impact professionals who want clearer services, confident pricing, and a stable consulting pipeline.

For new and current consultants who feel unclear, underpaid, or inconsistent and want a practice they can rely on.

For mission-driven experts ready to build a sustainable consulting practice aligned with their values and life.

Define Your Social Impact Consulting Niche in 20 Minutes

Kelsi Kriitmaa

Social Impact Strategist, Consultant, Coach, Speaker, and Former COO

Identify the concrete skills and  areas where you bring credibility in social impact.

Map your skills and sector expertise

Use a social impact curated Ikigai framework to clarify the work that genuinely motivates you.

Surface your motivation and energizers

Combine your strengths and motivations into a focused niche statement you can put into practice.

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Define Your Social Impact Consulting Niche in 20 Minutes