Stop Applying. Start Consulting.
Your expertise. On your terms.
You are approaching 50. You no longer want the 16 to 18 hour days, and in the back of your mind the same question keeps returning:
What does my next chapter actually look like?
You already have the expertise. Portfolio Careers turns it into a practice, with the right clients coming to you, so you replace burnout and a salary with work, and clients, that you choose.
Hi, I'm Cheraine Escott. I've built multiple businesses, had several failures, now run a successful consultancy with clients worldwide. I teach you exactly what worked, and what didn't.
You are not short on expertise.
You are short on pipeline.
You have 15 or more years of senior experience. People ask for your advice constantly. You have thought about going out on your own for years.
Then you do it, or you get close, and you find the hard part is not the work. It is knowing where the next piece of work comes from.
It usually sounds like this:
- "I keep getting asked for advice for free."
- "My network is my pipeline, and it has gone quiet."
- "I don't know how to price myself."
- "I want to use what I know without the politics."
You could be in any of three places right now. Portfolio Careers is built for all three.
- Still employed, planning the leap. You want the practice built before you resign.
- Recently independent, between contracts. You have done some fractional or consulting work, but the pipeline is stop-start.
- Independent a while, and pipeline is luck. The work comes from warm network only, and the network has been tapped out.
Going independent does not fail on capability.
It fails on pipeline.
Your experience is already a product. You have just not packaged it. The best clients are won the same way the best roles are. Through positioning and relationships, not pitching. You do not need more expertise. You need the right people to know exactly what you do, and a way to reach them that is not cold pitching or personal-brand content.
I have made the mistakes.
You do not have to.
I'm Cheraine Escott. I have been an executive assistant, a real estate agency owner, a recruiter, a teacher across three countries, a university lecturer, and a startup founder. I have built businesses and closed them, including a startup that connected 8,000+ professionals with employers across 119 countries.
I am teaching my method because I have tried enough things to know what actually works, and what does not. That is the method: exactly what worked, exactly what did not, so you skip the lessons that cost me years.
The method.
Four moves.
One method, four moves, built for senior professionals who sell what they know.
1. Position and Offer. Choose the specific problem you solve, and for whom. Then package it: a named offer, a clear scope, and pricing. One sentence specific enough that a prospective client can repeat it back accurately.
2. Signal. Make it visible. Your LinkedIn rebuilt so it reads as an independent practitioner, not an employee with a job title. A capability one-pager that states the value, the proof, and how to engage you.
3. Target. Build the list. 20 organisations and 80 named decision-makers who could engage you: founders, CEOs, COOs and boards, with one page of intelligence on each. People who buy services, not hiring managers filling roles.
4. Relationships. Build them. Peer-level outreach, real conversations, converted into paid engagements. In person where you can.
The guarantee.
Follow the method and you will have senior client conversations in your pipeline within 30 days.
How to work together.
Nail your niche, your offer and start getting clients.
The Advisory. 8,000 AUD.
One to one, done with you and for you. I build your positioning, offer, signal and target list with you. Payment plan available.
Who this is for.
This is for you if you are at Head, Director, GM or senior specialist level, with 15 or more years of experience, in Australia or New Zealand, and you are moving from full-time employment into fractional, consulting, advisory, board or coaching work built on your domain expertise.
This is not for you if you want a job-search service, or if you want hustle, grind and personal-brand content. Portfolio Careers is neither.
Your expertise is ready.
Find out if your pipeline is.
Start following.
Start building.
What I am building. What is working.
Inside my businesses. Every decision, every result, no filter.