Considering a certification
PMP is PHC's most-focused credential.
Pair your roadmap with the PMP workshop and the broader PM-in-PH session below.
Your PHC Persona
You are
The Active Consultant
Already has paid contracts — solo or with a small team — and wants the AI leverage, retainers, and structure to scale.
Where you're headed · Beyond your roadmap
The CEO Circle — for serious public health entrepreneurs.
The CEO Circle is for PHC members who are serious about building and scaling a full‑time public health business — whether you're already at six figures or actively building there with side projects, courses, and packaged offers. Members get peer coaching plus direct access to specialists in finance, legal, marketing, and operations. The natural step alongside CEO Bootcamp.
LEARN ABOUT CEO CIRCLE
For serious PH entrepreneurs
Before you start · Orientation
First, get oriented.
Every PHC member begins here. These onboarding pieces show you how to navigate the Club and hand you a curated, track-specific roadmap before you take Step 1. Click any button below to open that resource inside the Club — you'll need to be signed in.
Tip: Bookmark each workshop in your Club dashboard as you open it — you'll come back to most of these more than once. Use the bookmark icon in the top-right of every Circle post.
Then read
Consulting Roadmap for PHC Members
Your track-specific roadmap — a companion to this page.
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Career Coaches
Dr. Des & Vanessa Da Costa
Dr. Des coaches on entrepreneurship, scaling, and the CEO seat. Vanessa specializes in consulting strategy. RSVP to either inside the Live Workshops & Events space.
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Gamification & live leaderboard
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How it works
Monthly free
This month's free resource
PHC drops a new free resource each month — sent via DM and posted in-community. Download before month-end or you'll need to purchase it.
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Where you are right now
You're in the game.
- Has at least one paid client right now. May be solo or running with a small team (subcontractors, VA, ops support).
- Income may be project-based and feast-or-famine — wants retainers and predictable revenue.
- Doing too much manually; needs AI leverage and systems to stop being the bottleneck.
- Likely took S26F or found her own path — now looking for what's next.
Your full vision · the broader picture
Where you'll be.
- Build AI-powered systems so growth doesn't require more hours.
- Add new arms and revenue streams to the business beyond 1:1 consulting — digital courses, productized packages, a monetized podcast, and other offers that scale.
- Apply to bigger RFPs ($75K+) and partner with other PHC members on contracts.
⚡Your first 90 days · If you're on an urgent timeline
A quarter to a new client + a new system.
If your timeline is short — here's the focused 90‑day play.
Your goals above are the broader vision. If you picked a 90‑day timeline, here's the focused play for the next 90 days:
Work the Consulting Opportunities List + partnering tips (Step 1) to source a new contract, and pair it with the Beyond Freelancing workshop and the AI for Public Health Businesses workshop to set up systems alongside outreach. The goal: by end of 90 days, have a new client landed and a new AI‑powered system set up to reduce your manual hours.
Step 01 · Opportunities List
Step 03 · Beyond Freelancing
Step 04 · AI for PH Businesses
Goal: new client + new system
Your sequenced PHC roadmap
Fourteen steps,
in order.
Items are sequenced — earlier steps unlock later ones. Click any title to open it inside Circle (you'll need to be logged in as a PHC member). Check each one off as you go.
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Consulting Opportunities List + Partnering Tips
Filter for $50K+ retainer-friendly contracts. PRO TIP: use the comment feature on each post to invite partners or find subcontractors; search the community by skill to identify teammates. The Club is your hidden BD engine.
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CEO Bootcamp
Structured next-level program for active consultants ready to step fully into the CEO seat. The natural roadmap step before CEO Circle membership.
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Beyond Freelancing: How to Build a Consulting Business That Lasts
Katrina Freeman's retainer model walkthrough — $3,500–$9,000 / month structures with cancellation protection. The mindset shift from freelancer to business owner.
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AI for Public Health Businesses
Dr. Des's most recent AI walkthrough — what AI actually does inside a PH business: workspaces, skills, content systems, websites, dashboards, and automations.
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AI Basics for PH Entrepreneurs
The 7-lesson foundation: what AI is, the major tools, data privacy / HIPAA, setting up your AI stack, and the 5 levels of AI use.
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Directing the Co-Pilot: AI Across the Grant Lifecycle
Dr. Enjoli Willis on using AI thoughtfully across proposals and grants — automation vs. strategic augmentation. Protects margins while doing more work.
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Best Practices in Applying to RFPs
Dr. Léa and Dr. James on evaluating RFPs, hiring subcontractors, and managing rejection at scale. The workshop for when you’re past your first RFP and want to win bigger ones.
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Building Your Dream Team: Hire, Delegate & Scale Smart
Laurin Kelly on the move from solopreneur to scalable consultant — capacity audits, equitable pay, contracts, SOPs, and onboarding. The tactical scaling workshop.
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Building a Public Health Tech Startup
If you're scaling toward a productized offer or building a tech-enabled service, Georgina Dukes-Harris's story of founding Swishvo from her own traumatic birth experience is the equity-centered playbook.
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Strategic Planning Lab
Two-hour deep dive into delivering strategic planning AND landing strategic planning contracts. If strategic planning is (or could be) your niche, this is the paid follow-on to the free Strategic Planning 101 workshop.
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From VP to Founder/CEO with Ashley Gray
Pattern-match on someone who left a toxic workplace to launch Onyx Rose Advisors. Equity-driven consulting, CEO identity, and the leap into founder.
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Purpose, Pivot, Profit
Quisha Umemba on moving from nursing to entrepreneurship, learning from failed ventures, and building Umemba Health. Resilience and reinvention at scale.
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Public Health x Venture Capital
Khadijah on building / selling a startup and understanding VC vs. other funding paths. Relevant if you’re considering investor-backed growth or productizing your offer.
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Digital Portfolio Workshop
At your stage, a polished digital portfolio = bigger contracts. Use Canva or past project artifacts to build a credibility-establishing portfolio you can attach to every proposal.
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You're not doing this alone
900+ ambitious public health hustlers.
PHC is a working community — not a content library. Other Aspiring Consultants are inside the Club this week, comparing rate cards, swapping RFPs, and trading wins. Find them in the Consulting space.
- 900+ Public Health Hustlers
- 110+ Workshops on Demand
- 88 /mo RFPs posted each month
Even more inside the Club
Keep exploring.
After you've finished these steps, browse the Workshops on Demand space anytime to dig deeper by interest. A few directions worth considering:
Considering another degree
DrPH, PhD, or EdD?
Watch both panels back-to-back — they cover career goals, experience requirements, and life-fit considerations side-by-side.
Every week
RSVP to Live Workshops & Events.
New workshops, career clinics, and Awareness in 30 sessions drop every week. You may find something that lines up exactly with where you are.
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The Public Health CEO Circle
For serious public health entrepreneurs ready to build and scale.
For PHC members building and scaling a full‑time public health business — whether you're already at six figures or actively building there with consulting, digital courses, productized packages, and monetized media. Members get peer coaching plus direct access to specialists in finance, legal, marketing, and operations.
For serious PH entrepreneurs · Built with Dr. Des and the PHC team