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[tutor_dashboard_password_reset]You finished the degree and you know your field deeply, but nobody is paying you for it: organisations hire consultants for exactly what you know, yet you have no offer they can buy, no way to find or qualify clients, no proposal, no defensible price, and no method for delivering advisory work. Each week your coach works one piece with you, on your own expertise, then corrects it closely until it holds. You leave able to win and deliver paid consulting engagements, and you own every part of it.
One coach, hands-on · Ten weekly sessions of sixty minutes · Built for African graduates
Consulting is learned by doing it under guidance, not by reading about it. You can study a proposal template or a pricing formula and still freeze when you have to scope a real client's problem or name your fee out loud. Coaching is where the skill becomes yours: you build each part on your own expertise, your coach corrects it in the moment, and each week adds another capability your consulting depends on, from naming your offer and turning research skills into billable services to finding clients, writing proposals, pricing and contracting, and delivering an engagement. Open any pillar below to see how it moves your practice.
Every module follows the same learning loop. The coach demonstrates the technique, you build the asset yourself on your own practice, and you are corrected and checked until it holds. You never simply watch a video alone and hope it sticks.
Why this matters: A tool you do not drive is a tool you do not own. Building the asset yourself is what makes it yours.
Across the coaching: this doing-it-yourself loop runs through all ten modules, from setting up your toolkit to pitching your first engagement.
See the eight modulesYou work with one coach who stays with you for the whole engagement. They come to know your expertise, your market and your habits, so the guidance is specific to you rather than generic advice repeated to a room.
Why this matters: Continuity compounds. A coach who already knows your work can go straight to what matters, week after week.
Note: your coach never sells for you or writes your bids. They guide alongside your own effort, so the materials you take to market are already sharper.
See the eight modulesYou build every asset on the practice that matters, your own consultancy, or on a set exercise if you are equipping ahead of your first client. The capability statement you draft, the rate card you price, the website you set up and the proposal you write are all your own.
Why this matters: Skill applied to your own practice turns into a functioning consultancy the same week, not abstract knowledge you still have to transfer.
The bright line: you build the work throughout. The coach guides and corrects, but never writes your bids or runs your practice for you.
See the eight modulesBecause the coach reviews your actual work, you are corrected the instant something slips, not weeks later. A rate that undersells you, a capability statement that lists tasks instead of naming outcomes, a proposal that will not close, all fixed while you are still in the work.
Why this matters: Correction in the moment is the fastest way to build a skill. You do not carry the mistake into the next client.
How it lands: you leave each session with three concrete things to build, so the correction turns straight into your next week of work.
See the eight modulesMost graduates are doing this around work, job-hunting, family or distance. The coaching is built for exactly that. The hands-on work happens in your own working days, and the one hour with your coach is reserved for substantive work on what you already did, never for catching up.
Why this matters: An hour a week becomes a consultancy launched, because the rhythm respects the little time a working or job-seeking graduate can spare.
Your week, mapped: the switcher further down the page walks through each day, from your build to your sixty-minute hour.
See the eight modulesThe consultancy skills you build in coaching do not expire when your first engagement is won. Built once, they carry you through every proposal, every rate negotiation and every client you take on after.
Why this matters: You are not renting help for one bid. You are building a practice that serves every engagement you ever win.
See the packages: Compare the three coaching packages
See the eight modulesCoaching builds the consultancy craft into you, so you can do the work yourself, on this first engagement and every client after it. You own every asset throughout, and the skills stay with you for good.
Every module follows the same loop: the coach demonstrates the technique, you build it on your own expertise, and you are corrected until it holds. Together they carry you from naming your consulting offer to running a steady referral pipeline. The path below moves on its own from 01 to 08; hover the card or use the pause button to take your time, or select any step to jump.
Your journey, 01 to 8
Most graduates juggle this with work, job-hunting and family, so coaching has to fit a real week. The hands-on work happens in your working days, where you build each asset on your own practice. The hour with your coach is reserved for substantive work on what you already did, never for catching up. Here is what each day looks like.
The first two days are spent doing the thing you and your coach worked through in the session: redraft the capability statement you started together, refine the rate card, set up your website pages, or rewrite the proposal section to the structure you agreed.
This is the smallest, most achievable kind of progress: applying a skill you have just been shown, on the practice that matters. Most graduates find these the most productive days of the week.
Now the harder practice. You push the skill into new territory: a fuller proposal, a tougher pricing decision, a stretch of brand copy, using the asset you are building, on your own practice or a set exercise.
This is where going solo feels lonely; you sit with the blank page until the words arrive. Even imperfect drafts are better than none, and your coach will sharpen what you wrote.
You send your coach what you built this week: the capability statement you drafted, the rate card you priced, the website page you set up, the proposal section you wrote.
You add two or three specific questions, the places the technique did not click. Sending it by Day 5 gives your coach two full working days to review your practice before you meet, and that is what makes the session substantive.
Behind the scenes, your coach goes through what you practised: noting where the technique slipped, which step to demonstrate again, and the hands-on work to do with you tomorrow, the rate to defend, the proposal to tighten, the brand to sharpen.
You are not idle on Day 6. You are reading, practising or resting. But the substantive coaching work for the week is already under way on what you built.
You arrive with your practice already reviewed, so the hour is substantive from the first minute. You work the technique together: sharpen the capability statement, defend the rate, tighten the proposal, rehearse the pitch, while the coach guides and you drive.
You leave with three concrete things to build for the coming week, so the momentum carries straight into your next working days.
Within five working days of your session, a written summary of the fixes follows, so nothing from the hour is lost and you can act on it in your own time.
That summary, plus your three practice tasks, is what turns one live hour into a full week of forward motion, and it repeats, week after week, until your consultancy is launched.
Plays through on its own. Hover to pause, or click any day to jump.
A view of one coaching week. The building happens in your working days, and your live hour is reserved for substantive, hands-on work.
Every session runs the same way, so you always know what to expect and how to prepare.
Coaching builds the consultancy skills your practice depends on, into you. These are the skills you walk away able to use yourself, on this first engagement and every client after it.
Turn your postgraduate expertise into a named consulting proposition, set up the toolkit a working practice runs on, and know exactly who you serve and what you solve.
Build a capability statement that names outcomes, not tasks, and a rate card and day rate you can defend to any client, grounded in pan-African market realities.
Craft a personal brand and a light, professional website that make clients take you seriously before you have said a word, both built and owned by you.
Open the right conversations through a referral pipeline you run yourself, and write a tailored proposal that answers the client and closes the work.
Pitch and price a first engagement, scope and deliver it cleanly, and keep every skill so it carries into every client after this one.
All three are the same One-to-One, hands-on coaching; they differ in how many of the eight modules they cover. The core trains modules 01 to 03, positioning your expertise and finding your clients. The middle package adds modules 04 to 05 and six months of e-learning access, so you can win the work. The top package covers all eight modules, through delivery and a referral pipeline, with six months of e-learning access to every module. In each one you build and practise the skills on your own material and you own every output. You pay to enrol, then book your weekly sessions. Most graduates choose the middle option.
Live one-to-one, hands-on coaching on the first four modules: sharp positioning of yourself as a credible expert, strategic positioning of your consulting offer, packaging and branding that offer, and building your practice engine of service standards, repeatable routines and efficient use of AI and digital tools. The coach demonstrates each technique and advises on each choice, you build it on your own material, and you are corrected until it holds. You own every output.
Live one-to-one, hands-on coaching on the complete ten-module set, carrying you from positioning yourself and branding your offer, through building your practice engine, turning your research skills into billable services, marketing the practice and winning and pricing the work, to delivering your own engagement, managing clients and earning referrals. Every module is coached on your own material, the coach advises and corrects, and you own every output.
Everything in the full coaching programme, plus a named escalation Package 2 does not include: a pricing-and-costing clinic on your own positioned offer. You bring a real scoped client proposal, statement of work and price, and across dedicated sessions your coach stress-tests every figure, day-rate and scope line while you cost, price and defend the offer yourself and own the numbers. Includes six months of e-learning access to all ten modules to build and replay in your own time.
Two low-pressure ways to explore before you enrol: ask us to call you back on WhatsApp at a time that suits you, or book a fit call to talk it through and review your expertise and your consultancy plan together. Neither commits you to anything.
Leave your details and the time that suits you. We call you on WhatsApp, so it costs you nothing.
Pick a slot yourself on our calendar and we meet by video. We can talk it through and, if you like, review your work together.
The questions graduates ask most before enrolling. If yours is not here, ask before you pay.
We answer every enquiry personally, usually within a day, before you commit to anything.
It is one-to-one coaching. You work with a coach who, each week, demonstrates the techniques and guides you hands-on through building each asset while you do the work yourself. That is different from our self-paced courses, which teach the same craft as structured modules you study alone. Coaching is the higher-touch, higher-value option for applying the skills to your own practice; the courses are the lower-cost way to build the basics. Many graduates use both, in sequence.
Yes. The second module works with you to turn your postgraduate strengths into a named, defensible consulting offer, so you do not need to arrive with a fixed niche. If you already have one, we start from there; if you do not, we find it together before you build the assets that depend on it.
No, and that is the bright line. Your coach demonstrates each technique and reviews how you apply it, but you build every asset and write every proposal yourself. The coaching builds your skill and your practice; it never hands you a finished document produced by someone else. That is exactly what keeps the consultancy, and the credibility, honestly yours.
Yes. The tools are central to the programme, and they are taught hands-on, on your own materials, with close feedback. The first module sets your toolkit up with you, from your website builder to your rate calculator. From there you learn to build your capability statement in PowerPoint, your brand in Canva, your site in a light builder, and your pricing in Excel. You do not need to know any of it beforehand; you need only be willing to drive while the coach guides.
No, and any honest coach would say the same. What we guarantee is that you finish client-ready: a capability statement, a defensible rate card, a brand, a website, a proposal and a rehearsed pitch, all built and owned by you. Whether a specific client says yes depends on your market and your effort, which no coach controls. What the coaching does control is that you walk in prepared, priced and credible.
You build through the week, send your work and two or three specific questions by Day 5, and meet your coach for one live hour to work the techniques together. Because your coach has reviewed your work beforehand, the hour is substantive from the first minute. You leave with three things to build, and a written summary of the fixes follows within five working days. The programme runs for a fixed ten weeks with a clear end point.
This programme is scoped to building your consultancy practice only: the offer, the assets, the pricing, the pipeline, the proposal and the first pitch. It does not develop an academic proposal or thesis chapters. If you want the full academic build as well, that is a separate, larger programme, and you are welcome to take both; but here, every session goes into standing up your consultancy.
You enrol through secure checkout and pay in your local currency, by card, bank transfer or mobile money where it is supported. Payment confirms your place, and we then email you instructions for booking your weekly sessions. If you are unsure which package fits before you pay, email your situation to info@aosars.com or use the no-commitment options above.
Enrol today and turn your postgraduate expertise into an income you control, one live hour a week, on your own practice.
One coach, hands-on. Ten weekly sessions of sixty minutes. Pay in your local currency on mobile money, card or bank transfer.
