The Portfolio Career Playbook for Social Impact Professionals
Kelsi Kriitmaa
Social Impact Consultant & Coach
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Go from uncertain to clear, confident, and running a sustainable practice.
WHAT TO EXPECT
8+ 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.
What you’ll learn
Define your niche, services, pricing, and business development rhythm so consulting becomes stable and aligned with the life you want.
Clarify what you do, who it is for, and the problems you solve
Move from “generalist” to positioned without boxing yourself in
Pressure test your niche against real market demand
Design 2 to 3 core offers aligned with your strengths and energy
Shift from ad hoc work to defined services with clear scope
Reduce overwork, scope creep, and decision fatigue
Set rates that reflect your experience and real income needs
Understand day rates, project fees, and retainers
Let go of undercharging driven by fear or guilt
Create a weekly BD system you can actually maintain
Learn how work really flows in the social impact sector
Stop relying on panic outreach or word of mouth alone
Map and activate your existing relationships intentionally
Learn how to signal what you do and ask clearly
Build momentum through conversations, not cold pitching
Decide what sits alongside consulting and why
Combine projects, teaching, advising, or coaching intentionally
Build income, energy, and identity diversity over time
Learn directly from Kelsi
Kelsi Kriitmaa
Former COO, strategist and coach with 20+ years in consulting and social impact
Who this course is for
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.
Prerequisites
Experience in social impact or adjacent fields
It ensures you can apply the frameworks immediately to real client needs, sector norms, and context-specific challenges.
Willingness to invest 3-4 hours / week
Building a sustainable business requires growth through consistent steps; even tiny actions each week build clarity, confidence, momentum
Comfort communicating in English
We work on positioning, pricing, and visibility, so being able to articulate your ideas clearly accelerates your progress.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Kelsi Kriitmaa in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
8 live sessions • 4 lessons
Week 1
Jan
27
Session 1: Live Teaching
Jan
29
Session 1: Office Hours
Module 1: Your Consulting Blueprint
Week 2
Feb
3
Session 2: Live Teaching
Feb
5
Session 2: Office Hours
Module 2: Pricing & Designing Designing Sustainable Income
Schedule
Live sessions
2 hrs / week
Each week includes 1 hour of live teaching and 1 hour of office hours. Live sessions cover the real business of consulting, while office hours give you space to ask questions, workshop your ideas, and get direct feedback on your niche, offers, pricing, and business development approach.
Tue, Jan 27
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jan 29
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Feb 3
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1-4 hrs / week
1. Consulting Blueprint: Defining your niche, clients, and services 2. Sustainable pricing and income targets 3. Business development and branding plan 4. Portfolio pathways mapping
Async content
1 hr / week
Asynchronous content includes working through the workbook and guided exercises to support each week’s live sessions. You’ll also have access to my Slack community to connect with peers, share progress, and get support from me between classes.
Frequently asked questions
$499
USD