Corporate to Coach® Private Advisory is the one-on-one way to build your coaching business with Elissa, on your timeline, shaped entirely around your business. By application.
PCC certified. Former Fortune 100 Executive. Built a six-figure coaching practice in year one.
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You spent 15 to 25 years leading inside a company, often ending in the C-suite. You are ICF-certified or close, and you are zero to three years into building your own coaching business. You are competent and time-pressed. You do not want to wait for the next cohort to start, and you do not want a generic curriculum. You want the business built around your business, and you want to work with an expert.
One-on-one with Elissa. Built around your business. By application.
If you want the group energy of a cohort, the Corporate to Coach® cohort is the right room. If you want the framework at your own pace and price, the Solopreneur Insider Circle™ is where to start.
You leave with a launch-ready business plan you built with Elissa, not a binder you file. Six parts make that happen.
Roughly 75 minutes each, across up to six months. Business advisory, coaching, and mentor coaching in one, paced to your business rather than to a calendar.
Work through the modules on your own time, so your sessions are spent applying the work to your business rather than sitting through content.
A real line to Elissa on business days, with a reply within one business day.
The community, the accountability, and the twice-monthly live sessions, so you are never building in isolation between calls.
Positioning, a menu of services, pricing, a pipeline plan, and a 90-day launch plan you can act on.
Before session one, Elissa reviews your positioning, website, and LinkedIn so the first conversation starts from your real situation.
You know the work. You do not know what to do first.
Should the LLC come before the first client or after? Build the website now or once you have something to sell? When does insurance actually matter? How do you price coaching when your only reference point is a salary band?
Corporate to Coach® is built on 20 years of Fortune 100 risk management. The same method runs underneath every way of working with Elissa, and in Private Advisory it is applied only to your business, your numbers, and your situation. The Four Pillars of Entrepreneur Risk are how the work addresses every challenge of the leap.
Income, pricing, runway. Build the revenue plan before you leave the paycheck.
Positioning, brand, credibility. Walk in the room as a peer, not a vendor.
The identity shift from title to practice. Hold your authority as it changes shape.
Capacity for the life you already have. The business has to fit the life, not the other way around.
The result: the plan gets built on your situation, not a generic template, and you leave each session with the next move already clear.
Nine perspectives from coaches who completed the program. More on request.
“I joined Corporate to Coach® wanting to gain insight into ‘all the things’ I would need to know in this space, to determine if I could be successful. The process and tools provided helped me make that decision and understand that my business is viable. I am now fully equipped for success when I launch.”
Kim G., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“Corporate to Coach® helped me demystify the building blocks of creating a strong business foundation. It was an opportunity to ‘make a plan and do the work’ rather than just ‘read the book.’”
Elizabeth B., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“As a result of Corporate to Coach®, I evolved how I was thinking about my business, and solidified my comfort with the necessity of niching. My doubt and fear are smaller, and I feel ready to build my coaching business with courage in the driver’s seat.”
Hope G., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“Before joining the Corporate to Coach® program, leaving my corporate job to become a coach was just a dream. This program gave me more than just the tools and tactics to build a business plan. It connected me with an incredibly supportive network of peers. I now have the confidence and concrete steps to fully transition and build my coaching business.”
Mary Ann S., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“Corporate to Coach® gave me exactly what I needed as I was building my business. It’s a comprehensive view of what it takes to launch a coaching practice, delivered in a way that’s practical and designed to help you make meaningful progress right away. Elissa creates an environment where no question is too small, and she genuinely wants to help.”
Danika D., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“I met Elissa through the CHIEF network during her presentation of Corporate to Coach®, and it could not have come at a more perfect time. I learned so much in just six weeks and left feeling prepared, inspired, and grateful. Run, don’t walk. Take the class.”
Ivana M., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“Corporate to Coach® program helped me gain the tools and confidence to launch my coaching practice to a wider audience. The class provided me with the structure and discipline that I needed to jump start my practice while knowing that I was not missing anything important along the way. I would recommend this program to any new first-time solopreneur coach looking to get useful frameworks, tools, and building blocks to launch their coaching business.”
Talal S., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“Elissa is incredible and has created a powerful, engaging, and motivating platform to help folks move from wherever they are into readiness to launch their solopreneur life. Elissa combines a rare set of gifts. She will help you drill down into details and face the hard things, and she does it in a way that helps folks feel seen, safe, and heard. I cannot recommend Elissa or Corporate to Coach® enough.”
Ken G., Corporate to Coach® Graduate
“As a result of Corporate to Coach®, I have more confidence in the business development and operations for my launching business. I have the tools I need to understand what pipeline management looks like, and how to manage my time and capacity, so business building feels less overwhelming.”
Michelle, PCC Certified Coach
Elissa spent two decades climbing the corporate ladder, ending as Chief Product Officer of a $4 billion insurance company before she made her pivot. She is PCC certified, built her own coaching practice to six figures in year one, and founded Surya Partners, an executive coaching collaborative featured in Forbes.
Corporate to Coach® is the method she built from that experience, the one that closes the gap between coaching certification and a business that actually runs. She has refined it working with 30+ coaches through the program since.
Private Advisory is the closest you can get to building yours with her directly. She is Hudson-trained and PCC-certified.
Answers to the questions careful evaluators ask before a five-figure decision.
The cohort is a shared framework on a set schedule with a peer group. Private Advisory is one-on-one with Elissa, built around your business, on your timeline.
Elissa takes a small number of advisory clients at a time so the work stays deep and the calendar stays sane. The application makes sure the fit is right before either of you commits.
Elissa reviews your application. If it looks like a fit, she invites you to a fit conversation. If it is not the right fit, she will point you to the cohort or the Insider Circle.
Eight sessions across a window of up to six months, paced to your business rather than to a fixed calendar.
A launch-ready business plan you built with Elissa: positioning, a menu of services, pricing, a pipeline plan, and a 90-day launch plan.
You should be ICF-certified or close, and zero to three years into building your coaching business.
The four biggest risks of transitioning from corporate to coaching are: inconsistent income before the pipeline is built, professional positioning that reads as vendor instead of expert, the identity shift of leaving a senior leadership role, and underestimating the obligations of the life you already have. Corporate to Coach® uses the Four Pillars of Entrepreneur Risk to address each one as part of the business plan, with specific tools for pricing, pipeline, brand positioning, and capacity planning.
A short application tells Elissa where your business is, what you are building, and what is in the way. If it is a fit, she will invite you to a conversation. A small number of coaches at a time.
Corporate to Coach® Private Advisory is one-on-one business advisory for former corporate executives building a coaching business. Across eight private sessions with Elissa Kelly, PCC, you build a launch-ready business plan shaped entirely around your business: positioning, a menu of services, pricing, a pipeline plan, and a 90-day launch plan. The engagement pairs the full Corporate to Coach® curriculum, self-paced, with direct one-on-one time, direct email access between sessions, and six months of the Solopreneur Insider Circle™. It uses The Four Pillars of Entrepreneur Risk, a framework drawn from two decades of Fortune 100 risk management, to address the financial, professional, psychological, and life-obligation risks of building a coaching business from a corporate background. Private Advisory is by application, for a small number of coaches at a time, and priced at $7,499, payable in full or in two payments.
