How to Know if Independent Consulting is Right for You

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How to Know if Independent Consulting is Right for You

Hosted by Emily Hollender and Amanda Schwartz Ramirez

Thu, Sep 18, 2025

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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From Full-Time to Fractional: A Step-by-Step Launch Playbook for Senior Leaders

Emily Hollender

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Thu, Sep 18, 2025

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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From Full-Time to Fractional: A Step-by-Step Launch Playbook for Senior Leaders

Emily Hollender

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What you'll learn

Clarify If Consulting Fits Your Strengths

Dig into what independent consulting looks like day-to-day and if it aligns with your values, strengths and goals.

Evaluate Lifestyle & Career Tradeoffs

Understand the pros and cons compared to a 9-5, and walk away with a framework to evaluate if it's a fit for you.

De-Risk Making the Leap

Explore practical steps to test the waters before making the leap—and get our honest POV on common mistakes to avoid.

Why this topic matters

More and more experienced operators are stepping off the traditional career ladder to explore consulting, advisory, and fractional work. But figuring out whether this path is right for you—and when to actually make the leap—can feel overwhelming. This session will give you a clear framework to evaluate your fit for consulting so you can move forward with confidence and intention.

You'll learn from

Emily Hollender

Fractional Leader (prev. RTR, Tia, The Wing), Advisor, Founder of Next Wave

Emily Hollender is a Fractional Marketing Leader (prev. RTR, The Wing, Tia) and the founder of Next Wave Marketing, where she partners with early-stage consumer startups to harness the power of community to drive growth. She’s passionate about helping full-time operators get off the sidelines and kickstart their own fractional journeys. She teaches a quarterly Fractional 101 course on Maven.

Amanda Schwartz Ramirez

Prev. VP, now full-time Advisor | Founder, Garden Labs est. 2022

Amanda Schwartz Ramirez is a strategy and operations executive, advisor and board member. Over the last 15 years, she’s built and scaled high-performing organizations at their earliest stages, during hyper-growth, and at Fortune 500 scale. Currently, as an advisor and founder of Garden Labs, she helps venture-backed CEOs and COOs hone a more focused strategy and scale more intentionally. Amanda teaches the popular “On-Ramp to Consulting & Advising for Busy Execs” course on Maven, and writes at amandathinks.com.

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