Business Strategy Sessions

Create a Sustainable Academic-Adjacent Career

Without Burning Bridges, Gambling Your Income, or Losing Your Intellectual Identity

For academics who are wondering:
Is there a way to work independently without leaving everything I’ve built behind?

You’re not imagining it.

More and more academics are considering freelancing or self-employment — not because they’ve failed, but because the system no longer rewards care, depth, or continuity.

You might be:

• On a series of fixed-term contracts

• Overqualified and underpaid

• Emotionally attached to your research, but exhausted by the structures around it

• Curious about editing, coaching, consulting, or other academic-adjacent work, but unsure whether it’s realistic

Many academics move into:

• Editing and developmental editing

• Grant or proposal support

• Book coaching

• Career or writing coaching

• Discipline-adjacent consulting

• Research support and advisory work

Not as a leap — but as a strategic transition.

What you'll get

In this coaching package, I share my tested strategies for pursuing self-employment in academic-adjacent fields. You will learn from someone with over ten years of coaching and editing experience with academic clients, including individual scholars, research groups, and universities. We will talk about your business plan, outreach and marketing strategy, work–life balance, how to get and keep clients, and how to create the right pricing structures, and much more. Your new life as an editor, coach, or consultant is just one decision away — the decision to go all in on your new career path.