Scale a consulting practice
Your consulting practice needs to outgrow you.
Say yes to more work without hiring anyone, and without giving up what you built.
You built a consulting practice clients ask for by name. Now the demand outruns you: there's work you turn down, projects too big for one person, and a ceiling set by your own hours. Chameleon lets you serve all of it with peers you'd choose, under a name that wins bigger work, while you keep your clients, your rates and your freedom.
What you have when it’s working
Your clients served by people you'd choose, and a share in what we're all building.
You’re here because…
“I'm turning work away.”
Every no is a client who goes looking for someone else.
“The best projects need a team I don't have.”
You can see the bigger engagement. You just can't staff it alone.
“My income stops when my hours do.”
There's only so much of you to sell.
“I tell clients what to do, then watch them struggle to find people to do it.”
If you're a fractional leader, you set the strategy and the Collective carries it out.
“I've thought about hiring, and I don't want to be a boss.”
Payroll, management and risk are what you left behind.
We were here too
Chameleon started this way. In 2015, one of us was offered a project too big to handle alone. A few calls to trusted people later, we did it together, as equals. The client was delighted, everyone earned more than they would have alone, and nobody had to become anyone's boss. We've been doing it that way ever since.
What changes
With the Collective behind you.
Take on more
Bigger engagements, staffed by operators you choose, so the size of the work is no longer limited by the size of you.
Take on more kinds
When a client needs skills you don't have, you bring in a Chameleon who has them, instead of handing the client to someone else.
Turn "no" into "yes"
At capacity? Hand the work to someone you trust. The client stays happy, the relationship stays yours, and you're rewarded for the work you bring in.
A name that wins bigger work
Pitch with 280+ operators, 500+ clients and four years on the Inc. 5000 behind you.
Peers who make you better
People at your level who share what they know, push your thinking, and pull you into their work too.
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 practice owners go all in as Collective Members, from day one if they qualify. Prefer to keep your practice separate? The Expert Network lets you scale alongside it.
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 clients
Portable if you ever leave.
Your rates
You set them.
Your methods
How you work stays yours.
Your freedom to say no
No one to justify it to.
How it unfolds
01
First month
Meet your peers, get set up in CORE, and bring your clients across.
02
First shared win
A client asks for something beyond you, and a Chameleon you'd vouch for delivers it while you lead the account.
03
As it grows
Bigger engagements, a bench you choose, and the work you bring in rewarded.
04
What's yours
Your clients, your reputation, and a stake in what we're building.
You built a consulting practice. Now build it with people who've done it.
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
“Before joining, I would panic every time I passed on a job. By only signing on to the portion of work where I shine, I end up making it a good experience for everyone: me, the client, and other Chameleons.”
CRM strategist
Not ready to join?
Refer the work you can’t take, and earn from it.
Tell us
Tell us where your ceiling is.
A sentence is enough: what your practice does, and what you keep turning away. 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.
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Your consulting practice needs to outgrow you.
Your clients served by people you'd choose, and a share in what we're all building.
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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 →