The Expert's Privilege: A Self-Deployment Guide to Leaving Corporate and Going Solo

By Wes Wheless

You boarded the corporate plane willingly. And for a long time, you made it work. But somewhere along the way, it stopped working for you.Maybe you were passed over. Maybe the ceiling keeps rising. Maybe burnout has crept in. Maybe the company you bent over backward for handed you a severance package anyway. Maybe it was all of it.What you might not see yet is this: beneath the grind, the pivots, and the endless invisible work, you've built something rare: a body of expertise that's specific, transferable, and highly valuable.This unlocks the Expert's Privilege: the freedom to use what you know on your own terms - outside the corporate grid, on problems you actually care about, for people you actually want to help.This is a self-deployment guide for professionals ready to seriously consider the leap into solo consulting. Using more than 30 original visuals and frameworks, Wes Wheless maps the path from restlessness to clarity and all the way to true self-direction.You've been packing your parachute for years.You just haven't jumped yet. Here's how.Wes Wheless is an "expertise whisperer" and creator of The Lightbulb, a daily newsletter for solo consultants. After two consecutive tech layoffs, Wes traded a 20-year corporate career for a solo practice helping experts turn their knowledge into IP, frameworks, and "intellectual headshots."

Wes holds business degrees from the Wharton School and Kellogg School of Management and lives in Seattle, Washington. The Expert's Privilege is his first book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178846401X
• ISBN13: 9781788464017
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Clear Frame Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"