Unleash Your Influence

Transform 15+ Years of Corporate Expertise into a Profitable, Independent Consulting Practice

The Thought Leader Launchpad is the premier one-on-one strategic coaching program for accomplished corporate executives with 15+ years of experience, providing a proven blueprint to translate their invaluable internal expertise into a powerful, profitable, and influential independent consulting practice, without the guesswork or the fear of missteps.

Problem: The Golden Handcuffs Are Tightening, But Your Vision Is Calling

You've climbed the corporate ladder, amassed invaluable experience, and delivered consistent results. Yet, a nagging question persists: "Is this all there is?" The thought of launching your own consulting practice is exhilarating, but the path feels shrouded in uncertainty.

  • Feeling stuck in the corporate grind despite your accomplishments?

  • Unsure how to package your vast experience into compelling, high-value offers?

  • Struggling to define your unique niche and stand out in a crowded market?

  • Dreading the idea of starting from scratch with marketing and client acquisition?

  • Lacking a clear, actionable roadmap to confidently make the leap and build your authority?

You're not alone. The transition from corporate powerhouse to independent thought leader demands a strategic approach, not guesswork. Without it, your brilliance remains untapped, and your potential income unfulfilled.

Solution: The Thought Leader Launchpad – Your Accelerated Path to Independent Consulting Mastery.

Imagine having a proven system to translate every ounce of your corporate expertise into a powerful, marketable consulting identity. The Thought Leader Launchpad is an 8-week intensive program meticulously designed for accomplished professionals like you, providing the clarity, tools, and roadmap to confidently launch and scale your independent consulting practice.

Here’s What You’ll Systematically Achieve in 8 Weeks

  • Define Your Irresistible Niche: Gain unparalleled clarity to pinpoint your unique value proposition and identify your ideal, high-paying clients.

  • Craft High-Value Offers: Transform your raw experience into structured, premium consulting services that command top dollar.

  • Forge Your Thought Leadership Asset: Develop a foundational piece of intellectual property – whether a compelling mini-book outline or your signature methodology – establishing you as an undeniable authority.

  • Build Your Strategic Marketing Roadmap: Walk away with a practical, step-by-step plan to immediately begin establishing your authority and attracting your dream clients.

  • Launch with Unshakeable Confidence: Initiate your journey as an influential consultant, equipped with the strategy and support to thrive.

What's Included in Your Thought Leader Launchpad Program

  • 8 Weekly Live Zoom Sessions (Recorded): Engage in dynamic, interactive sessions with Marilyn and a cohort of peers, designed for real-time strategy development and accountability. All sessions are recorded for your convenience.

  • Comprehensive Member Portal Access: Your central hub for success, featuring all session recordings, in-depth video modules, and an extensive resource library.

  • Action-Oriented Workbooks & Templates: Practical tools and exercises to guide you through each strategic step, ensuring you apply what you learn immediately.

  • Private Community Space: Connect, collaborate, and gain support from a network of accomplished professionals on a similar journey.

  • Dedicated 1-on-1 Strategy Session with Marilyn: A personalized deep-dive to refine your niche, offers, and marketing roadmap, ensuring your plan is perfectly tailored to your ambitions.

PLUS, Secure These Exclusive Bonuses When You Enroll Today

  • Bonus #1: The Thought Leader Toolkit: Essential resources and templates to accelerate your content creation and brand building.

  • Bonus #2: First Client Discovery Call Script & Framework: Confidently navigate initial client conversations and convert prospects into paying clients.

  • Bonus #3: Strategic Time Integration & Productivity Toolkit: Master your schedule to seamlessly transition and maximize your impact without burnout.

  • Bonus #4: Building Your Brand While Employed: Ethical Guidelines & Best Practices: Navigate the nuances of establishing your independent brand with integrity and professionalism while still in your corporate role.

Who Is This Program For?

This intensive program is exclusively for accomplished, high-achieving corporate executives or seasoned professionals (typically 15+ years experience) who are:

  • Contemplating or in the early stages of transitioning out of their corporate role.

  • Ready to launch their own independent consulting practice.

  • Committed to translating their deep corporate expertise into a powerful, marketable identity.

  • Eager to establish authority and attract ideal clients with a proven roadmap.

Your Investment in a Future of Influence & Freedom

The Thought Leader Launchpad is your fast-track to becoming an influential, independent consultant. For an investment of just $997, you gain access to an unparalleled system, expert guidance, and a supportive community designed to transform your career.

Don't let your expertise remain confined. Your influence is waiting to be unleashed.

[YES! I'm Ready to Launch My Consulting Practice & Secure My Spot Now for $997!]

Thought Leader Launchpad

  • You pay up front. If you prefer to start smaller, please choose a smaller component of the bundle.

  • Conversation with Marilyn to plan project timeline.

  • You submit your documents (articles, blog posts, transcripts of your words and concepts relevant to the course you want to create) and/or interview.

  • We meet to finalize your book outline and course module outline.

  • We deliver your Brand Voice, Audience Intelligence Report, Book First Draft, and Course.

  • You get one round of edits within 30 days after we deliver them to you.

  • Follow up resources to help you leverage your book and course.

Communication with your documents is done via email and Google Drive. We keep our files private ... the rest is up to you.

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About Marilyn

My mission is to help YOU become the expert and build your community.

I support you as a guide on the side.

It's all about YOU on stage!!

I empower accomplished, high-achieving corporate executives and seasoned professionals (15+ years experience) to amplify their organizational credibility as a thought leader, or strategically transition from their corporate roles into impactful, independent consulting practices.

My mission is to translate your deep-seated corporate expertise into a powerful, marketable consulting identity, equipping you with a clear strategic blueprint for accelerating career opportunities within your current organization, or to create an independent career.

My approach is built on a proven foundation of amplifying expert voices, fostering strategic collaboration, and developing compelling thought leadership. This expertise is reflected in my work as:

Author, Author to Authority: A Strategic Blueprint for Thought Leadership

Publisher, Celebrating Coaches Magazine: Curating and promoting the insights of leading industry experts.

Producer, Celebrating Authors Summit Series: Orchestrating platforms for professionals to share their definitive work and establish authority.

Owner, Consider the Possibility Mobile App: Providing innovative tools and resources for professional development and strategic growth.

Book Strategy Coach: Guiding experts through the process of creating their own impactful thought leadership assets.

Networking & Collaboration Coach: Specializing in helping professionals synchronize their promotions to benefit their clients by optimizing their customer journey and expanding their reach.

Host, Thought Leadership Mastermind: Facilitating a high-level community dedicated to developing and expanding thought leadership credibility and influence.

Host, Consider the Possibility Podcast: Delivering valuable insights and strategies for professional and personal advancement.

YouTube Creator, AI User Lab for Thought Leaders: Hosting live sessions for executives and thought leaders to confidently and ethically leverage AI, focusing on prompt engineering, content repurposing, and building efficient AI habits without compromising unique voice.

Through The Thought Leader Launchpad, an 8-week intensive program, participants gain unparalleled clarity to define their unique niche and high-value offers, create a key thought leadership asset (such as a compelling mini-book outline or signature methodology), and develop a practical, step-by-step marketing roadmap.

This ensures you can immediately begin establishing your authority and attracting ideal clients, confidently initiating your journey as an influential consultant.

If you're ready to leverage your unparalleled corporate experience for independent success and build a legacy of influence, check out the 3 options below.

Marilyn McLeod

Founder, Thought Leader Launchpad
Author, Thought Leader Field Guide

Testimonials

Marshall Goldsmith

Million-selling author & world authority in helping successful leaders get even better

"I am moved to provide the highest recommendation for Marilyn. Along with her great technical job in developing my site, Marilyn has been a pleasure to work with.

Marilyn managed a coaching engagement with four very senior executives in a 'Fortune 500' client of mine. She did a wonderful job of managing the work of coaches involved - and coordinating the project.

The end result was positive, long-term change in behavior for the client executives - and a very positive experience for the coaches!

Along with her great technical job in developing my site, Marilyn has been a pleasure to work with. She has shown the highest integrity and has handled a couple of tough situations in a very professional way."

Nathaniel Branden

Pioneer in the field of Self-Esteem, Collaborator with Ayn Rand

"Marilyn is a master of her trade. She organized and hosted Thought Leader interviews; she created an atmosphere of relaxed excitement and intellectual stimulation which everyone seemed to feel and respond to from the moment they arrived.

Marilyn McLeod is an example of pure ability in action."

Ken Shelton, CEO

Executive Excellence, LLC, Ghost-writer for "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

"Over the past 35 years, I have known and published many of the top consultants and executive coaches. More recently, at age 70, I have enjoyed being coached by a woman who has worked for 25 years with two of the top executive coaches, Marshall Goldsmith and Gary Ranker.

Marilyn brings a wealth of experience and proven tools and methodology to her coaching, and then adds her own special touch, including her amazing empathy, her ability to ask the right questions and listen deeply to understand. She then explores options and draws out solutions, rather than simply prescribing canned remedies.

Her one-on-one, customized and personalized coaching proves that she really cares about helping her clients make progress in areas that matter most to them in both the personal and professional domains of their lives. I highly recommend Marilyn McLeod, an executive coach who knows how to develop authentic leadership excellence."

Dr. Beverly Kaye

Founder and Chairwoman, Career Systems International

"I've known Marilyn for many years and hear only positive comments from individuals who know her and have worked with her.

She is deeply experienced in a variety of industries, and on a variety of subjects critical to executive coaching."

Gary Ranker

Global CEO Coach

"Marilyn has an amazing and rare ability to recognize patterns of behaviour as a coach and distill that understanding into direct pragmatic recommended actions to improve her clients' interpersonal relationships.

The result is that her coaching clients are more successful in both understanding themselves, more self aware, and are able to achieve their goals within business more efficiently due to a greater understanding of their social context.

We have collaborated as co-authors on two books about coaching and her writing skills are extraordinary.

Again because of her rare ability to recognize patterns, she is able to find the salient practical value from research and present it in a meaningful yet simplified practical manner for the reader.

I have personally seen Marilyn's talent in action over the past decade of working together on coaching projects. It is from this vital first hand experience of Marilyn as a coaching partner that gives me the vantage to attest how extraordinary she is as a coach."

Joan Clark

Executive Coach, JM Clark and Company

"What's really been useful is your very keen sense of asking questions. And not just asking, but asking targeted, thoughtful questions that then in turn make me think.

The other thing, and this may not be appropriate for everybody, but because I am such a structured person, it's reassuring, and it also helps keep me on track, that when we're done you send me a follow up note saying what we talked about and what we agreed to.

That validates what we talked about, and if we're off track it gives me a quick chance to say no, that's not really what I meant.

And then when I get ready for our meeting the next week, it also gives me a chance to refresh my memory.

That works really well. It holds me accountable, and I appreciate that."

Dr. Arianne Weiner

President of Implementing Change, a Leadership Coaching and Development Consultancy for Entrepreneurs and Small Business

"Marilyn has a tremendous amount of energy and experience in supporting others to make their books happen.

She has an in-depth background of synthesizing your thoughts into actionable steps towards writing that book you have always wanted to accomplish.

Marilyn will do whatever it takes to help you move through your discomfort to get you thinking like an author, even if you have never written a book before.

She knows how to quiet your inner critic and bring out your cheerleaders! From tips on organizing your thoughts to getting them on paper into palatable chapters to reviewing your drafts, guiding your marketing, and working with you in manifesting that message you want to be sent out in the world.

And you never know what will come out of a coaching session, because as she gets to know who you are, what your clients want, and what you want to deliver to your clients bottom line, she makes connections you may not have seen before.

I'm launching a whole new product idea which helped me pivot during an economic downturn, and the genesis of the idea came from one of my coaching sessions with Marilyn."

Steve Sallen

President and CEO, Southfield, MI

"Marilyn's 360 interviews helped our team & continue to help me as a leader. If you really want to lead, you're not a leader unless people are following.

A real leader knows whether his messages get through, or if unintended messages are coming across.

It's well worth the exercise to get real data on how key people perceive my leadership & the future direction of our firm."

Geoffrey M. Cox, PhD

Former President, Alliant International University, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management

"Marilyn has a wonderful, cheerful personality that makes her a pleasure to work with. She is a thorough professional with skills and talents that are adaptable to many different kinds of projects and organizations."