Go independent
Your next chapter needs to be your own.
Make the jump with a firm behind you, not a blank page in front of you.
You've spent years running things for someone else. You're ready to do it on your own terms, but not to start from zero: no brand, no peers, nobody to call. At Chameleon you go independent with 280+ operators beside you and a name clients already trust.
What you have when it’s working
Independent from day one, with a name clients trust and peers beside you.
You’re here because…
“I'm good at the work. I'm tired of everything around it.”
The reorgs, the politics, the meetings about meetings.
“I've been promoted away from the work I love.”
The better you got, the less of the actual work you did.
“I want my time back.”
Full-time, you're worth six figures. At thirty-two hours a week, apparently nothing.
“I want to go out on my own, but not alone.”
Freedom shouldn't mean carrying every risk by yourself.
We were here too
One of our founders became the first creative partner at a big-four firm. Every step up meant more budgets, layoffs and closed-door conversations, and less design. So our founder walked away, to lead by example instead of by org chart, and to get back to the work.
What changes
With the Collective behind you.
A name from day one
You walk into your first conversation as Chameleon Collective: ten years, 500+ clients and four years on the Inc. 5000 behind you.
Peers on the first day
280+ operators who've made the same jump, to ask, to borrow from, and to work alongside.
You're not the only one finding work
Chameleons bring each other into their accounts, so your next engagement doesn't have to come from you alone.
CORE from the start
Everything the collective knows (case studies, playbooks, the right person for any question) is there on day one.
Freedom, intact
Choose your work, set your rates, and say no when you want to.
A stake and a say
Every Chameleon's work counts toward ownership; Collective Members vest it and vote on where we go.
Two ways to belong
One standard. Your pace.
Every Chameleon is vetted the same way. After that, you choose how deep you go, and you can go deeper later.
Most people making the jump start on the Expert Network, and go all in as a Collective Member when they're ready.
Expert Network
Do great work, your way.
- A non-exclusive relationship. Keep your own practice, and take on work through the collective when it fits.
- Clients, peers and CORE from day one, and your name in a community clients trust.
- Your work through the collective counts toward ownership.
- Right for specialists who love the craft, people building toward independence, and anyone who wants the Collective without going all in.
Collective Member
All in.
- Bring your whole practice, clients included, under the Chameleon banner. If you ever leave, the clients you brought can go with you.
- Lead client accounts, help bring in work for yourself and others, and help shape the collective.
- Vest ownership, vote, and stand for the Leadership Council.
- Established practice and firm owners who qualify can join as Members from day one.
What stays yours
Your rates
You set them.
Your schedule
Work where and when you work best.
Your choice of work
Opt in to what excites you.
Your freedom to say no
No one to justify it to.
How it unfolds
01
First month
Meet other Chameleons, get set up in CORE, and build a profile Chameleons can find.
02
First engagement
Do great work alongside Chameleons who've done it before.
03
As it grows
Your own clients, and peers who keep bringing you in.
04
What's yours
An independent practice, with a firm behind it.
Go independent. Never alone.
None of us is smarter than all of us together
Bring what you have.Get what we all have.
Bring your expertise.
Get 280 people's.
Bring your network.
Get everyone's. Every Chameleon's network adds to the one you can reach.
Bring your clients.
Get a bench to serve them, so you never have to turn work away again.
Bring your best work.
Your case study helps the next Chameleon win, and theirs helps you.
In a company, people hoard what they know to protect their job. Here, sharing is how everyone grows.
In our own words
“It didn't occur to me that I would have the freedom to say no to work I didn't want.”
Marketing leader, 13 years in corporate
“Clients see me as a valuable resource beyond what they hired me for.”
Marketing consultant, formerly in Silicon Valley tech
Tell us
Tell us what you're leaving behind.
A sentence is enough: what you do, and why now. We'll tell you honestly whether Chameleon is the right fit.
Where are you today?
Wherever you are, someone here has been there.
Start with where you are.
Go independent
Your next chapter needs to be your own.
Independent from day one, with a name clients trust and peers beside you.
Find the work
Your pipeline needs to stop being luck.
Peers who bring you in, and a brand that gets you in the room.
Scale a consulting practice
Your consulting practice needs to outgrow you.
Your clients served by people you'd choose, and a share in what we're all building.
Scale a search practice
Your executive search practice needs to outgrow you.
New revenue lines from the clients you already have, and executive search no database can copy.
Run a firm
Your firm needs to stop running you.
Your firm inside something bigger: a respected name, a deeper bench, and peers who've built firms too.
Not sure which? Tell us where you are, and we’ll tell you where you’d fit →