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How Firms Hit $50m
How Firms Hit $50m

If your firm has ever felt like it hit something immovable overnight, you’re not imagining it. The work keeps coming, the team keeps growing, and yet everything somehow bottlenecks. That’s a growth wall.

Is Your Firm Worth Buying?
Is Your Firm Worth Buying?

For leaders building a serious consulting firm, growth is not the end goal. Options are. Whether you want an eventual exit or simply the freedom that comes with scale, the real question is whether your firm is built in a way that someone else would want to buy it.

Winning Bigger Work
Winning Bigger Work

Regardless of the size of the prize your firm is after, here are five strategies for winning bigger work, from a consulting Chief Growth Officer who just landed his first $1.5B project.

How To Fix Your Low Prices
How To Fix Your Low Prices

Five pricing questions Projectworks CEO Mark Orttung wish he’d asked when he was doubling billable rates at consulting firm Nexient, pulled straight from his live Z Suite conversation with Arminino Partner Ryan Prindiville.

How To Fix Your Bland Pitch
How To Fix Your Bland Pitch

Get five field-tested strategies from two consulting leaders who've been winning work for decades, pulled straight from Mark Orttung’s live conversation in the Z Suite with CoreX Head of GTM, Meghan Lockwood-Rexer.

How To Fix Your Underutilized Team
How To Fix Your Underutilized Team

You don’t fix lumpy utilization with a new project and resource management policy. You fix it by treating utilization like a system, not just a number, with Mark Orttung and Andy Lin’s ten utilization-lifting moves.

Bigger Boots
Bigger Boots

Promoting from within should be a win - for your people, your clients, and your business. But too often, it backfires.

Change or Die
Change or Die

Most consulting firms don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because they wait too long to adapt - and when they finally do, they botch the landing. But with budgets tightening, AI reshaping billable work, and clients expecting more for less, change isn’t optional anymore - it’s survival.

Don't Look Down
Don't Look Down

Scaling a consulting firm has never felt scarier. But in a market crowded with laid-off consultants and AI-powered competitors, too many firms are choosing the riskiest move of all - stagnation.

Egos & Exits
Egos & Exits

Consulting firms are in demand, but being bought (or trying to buy) has never been riskier. Between investor appetite, integration chaos, and founder fatigue, too many firms are being sold too early - or broken after the deal.

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