Maribeth thought building a consulting business would require:

• Perfect positioning.
• Perfect offers.
• Perfect timing.

What actually created momentum was much simpler:

Conversations.

After years leading strategy and commercialization work across financial services and data-driven organizations, Maribeth left her last startup role burned out from the constant chaos and uphill battles of working inside environments where her expertise often went unheard.

She knew she wanted to build something of her own.

What she didn’t know was how to turn her decades of experience into a consulting offer that her ideal clients needed.

Passport helped her shift her focus away from endless refining and toward visibility, networking, and relationship-building.

Coffee chats.

LinkedIn outreach.

Industry events.

Making offers consistently instead of waiting until everything felt “ready.”

That shift changed everything.

Within months, Maribeth landed her first consulting engagement:

A $16,000 project for just two weeks of work.

As the market evolved, she also made a strategic pivot to focus her business around AI transformation—a move that helped the company sign its first high-ticket client.

Today, Maribeth has generated more than $55K in consulting revenue while building a growing pipeline.

But perhaps the biggest shift is this:

Maribeth no longer spends her days fighting to have her voice heard inside someone else’s company. She’s building something entirely her own.