Bring your experience, skills, and talent to small businesses in your community. Experience real financial and professional reward again. Be supported in your success through lead generation, marketing support, and mentoring. Be a catalyst for change through a program developed for your success and your clients’. Leverage your career experience in an exciting and turnkey program.

The Organization for Entrepreneurial Development is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting small businesses and entrepreneurship through its outreach and development programs. OED’s Professional Practice Programs (P3s) are specifically designed to help individuals form, build, and strengthen their practices.

The ICP3 Opportunity

The Independent Consultant Professional Practice Program (ICP3) is the proven and guaranteed path to launching or expanding a consulting practice. ICP3 participants are licensed as Certified Advisors to represent OED under its flagship Local Business Assistance Program, which also offers a unique platform to develop business consulting and business coaching engagements for the advisor’s personal practice.

ICP3 is an ongoing program that prepares, develops, certifies, and supports the participant for as long as he/she desires. The cornerstone of the program is the understanding that running a consultancy and being an independent consultant is a process and profession that continues to grow and change … that one person could never keep up nor compete effectively and efficiently on his/her own. The ICP3, and all its components, are specifically designed to ensure and support the participant’s success.

“If you have any trepidation, at all, these are the people you want to turn to. If you want to take control of your own career, they have been highly successful in helping over 2,000 people establish and build their own practices. It’s a diverse pool of people, from all backgrounds. It’s an amazing success story. It’s one we all get to leverage as well.”

Successful Certified Advisors are those who are ready to listen to their clients, to guide their clients through challenges, and are interested in long-term engagements.

Continuous exposure is critical for professional practices. You’ll need a steady stream of leads and sales opportunities that comes from an equally steady marketing exposure. OED Certified Advisors have an arsenal at the ready to build, maintain, and grow their practices. Whether a jump start is needed, steady moderate exposure is desired, or a seasonal push is your plan, you will be able to leverage OED’s Advisor Marketing Tools for quality services targeted specifically to your needs.

The OED P3 Network is comprised of professionals who have been certified through one of OED’s P3 programs, and have committed to the core values and ethics of OED. Bring some of the business community’s most sought after expertise to your clients to perform, solidify and expand your engagements.

OED sees a little silver hair as a precious asset. It signals you’ve got experience, maturity, and perspective.

OED Certified Advisors represent a cross section of professionals unlike any other, and diversity is vital to our network of talent. OED reflects the faces of the small business owners with whom you’ll meet in your local community. As the driver of your own career, you will be able to apply your honed talents and years of experience in a way not often seen these days. We seek professionals from a variety of industries and backgrounds. Among our talent, you’ll find people who’ve come from Fortune 500 companies, the military, and business ownership. Align yourself with seasoned pros to open and expand your engagements well beyond project-based assignments.

End the Feast or Famine Cycle of Self-Employment

Consultants often fall victim to the “feast or famine” cycle in their practices. They may feverishly market to generate clients, then become too busy servicing clients to continue to market. Engagements wane and so can income. OED breaks that cycle for our Certified Advisors with long-term, turnkey marketing support. Everyone from the most sales- oriented professional to the most hesitant are fostered through the ICP3, which helps you build your practice without cold calling or hard selling. Rest easy and prepare to meet your new prospects, because as a Certified Advisor, you’ll “have people” to help generate leads.

Training, Guidance, and Mentoring for YOUR Success

As a part of ICP3 Certification, each new Certified Advisor is invited to participate in OED’s MasterMind Coaching Program. The program includes facilitated group sessions with other ICP3 Certified Advisors, as well as private time with a senior coach/advisor. Newly Certified Advisors have found these group and individual sessions to be extremely valuable in helping them to ramp up their practices quickly.

What is the ICP3 Guarantee?

If, by the end of the fourth complete calendar month after ICP3 certification, you have implemented and reported upon all aspects of OED’s “40 in 4” principle using the ICP3 methods, and have not engaged one or more clients with total projected billings greater than the cost of ICP3 certification, you will receive a 100% refund for the amount paid for the ICP3 program. Speak with OED for more information on this testament to OED’s confidence in the ICP3 and your success.

OED supports you in finding prospects. You build the client relationship. You retain all billing from your practice. There is no royalty or subsequent commission. There is a steady source of prospects and opportunity for those ready to take control of their careers.