The Expert Shift by Dieter Brandt

Starting Your Consulting Business at 50+

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The Most Expensive Mistake Experienced Leaders Make Isn't The Wrong Decision

The Expert Shift Executive Reinvention for Experienced Leaders The weekly briefing on building your next professional chapter. → This Week Thank You A sincere thank you to everyone who joined Thursday's Executive Briefing.What impressed me most wasn't the number of participants. It was the co...

Aug 01, 2026

I Never Thought I’d Sit on the Other Side of the Desk

Why clarity—not courage—is what determines your next professional chapter. Executive Reinvention for Experienced Leaders The weekly briefing on building your next professional chapter. Next Week Free Live Executive Briefing Which Way Now?Consulting. Interim Management. Advisory. Executive Searc...

Jul 25, 2026

Executive Reinvention Club

Today I'm opening the Executive Reinvention Club for the first 50 founding members. It's the room I kept looking for and never found, not in the Americas, and not in Europe: a serious, peer-level space where experienced executives can figure out the second half of their career without being pushe...

Jul 23, 2026

Longevity didn't just give you more years.

Our parents and grandparents rarely had that opportunity. By their late fifties or early sixties, many had spent decades doing physically demanding work. Medical care was different. Life expectancy was shorter. Retirement often marked the end of their productive contribution. Our generation is di...

by Tools Team — Jul 18, 2026

I would never have gotten that mandate alone

A few years into building and growing his consulting practice, an executive I worked with told me something I didn't expect. "That last mandate — I would never have gotten it alone." Not because he lacked the expertise. Because a fellow partner spotted the opportunity, made the introduction, an...

Jul 14, 2026

Being listed is not the same as building a business

Many senior executives consider interim management after leaving corporate life. And at first glance, the path looks simple. You register with one or more interim management platforms.You upload your CV.You speak with a few of their consultants.Maybe you go through an assessment. And then you wai...

Jul 11, 2026

The question nobody asks first.

After seven years of conversations with experienced executives about the second half of their professional lives, I've noticed something. The question that's almost always underneath everything else isn't "can I do this?" It's: "Which path is actually mine?" Consulting? Interim management? A boar...

Jul 08, 2026

You can't scale a complex system

Why senior executives must simplify — not only when they re-start. There is one pattern I see again and again.Senior executives who want to start their own consulting business bring enormous experience. They have led teams.Managed markets.Solved crises.Handled customers, boards, investors, suppli...

Jul 04, 2026

New round tonight – in this time?

Hi You've been closer to this topic before — which is why I'm reaching out personally. Tonight I'm running "From Executive to Entrepreneur" in a new round, 05:00 p.m. (CEST), live. Maybe the timing didn't work last time, or the moment just wasn't right yet. Both completely fine. But if the thoug...

Jun 30, 2026

Live tonight — From Executive to Entrepreneur

Short and direct: Tonight, 05:00 p.m. (CEST), I'm running my live webinar "From Executive to Entrepreneur." It tackles the question most people get stuck on: How do decades of executive experience become a business of your own that actually holds up? Not a theory lecture. The real roadmap. Re...

Jun 30, 2026

September this year starts in June

There is a certain feeling in September.You know it. The summer is not fully over yet, but something in the air changes.People return from vacation.Business conversations restart.Projects move again.Decisions get made.It feels like a new beginning. And for many senior executives who think about s...

Jun 27, 2026

A beautiful website will not save an unclear offer

When you move from executive to entrepreneur, visibility is not the first problem. Relevance is. I hear this sentence quite often from senior executives who are preparing their next chapter: “I need to become more visible first. I have invested in my own website. It is almost ready.” I understan...

Jun 20, 2026

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