From employee to consultant.
consultant to business leader
At Comms People, your first client is yourself.
Build your own story, your own brand, and your own business.
transform yourself from a doer into a thinker, from a freelancer into a founder of your own businesses, and from an optional extra into an indispensable partner
Doors are open
Our mission
Comms People exists to help communications professionals step confidently from employee to business owner. We are here to build brands, not just businesses. To learn and grow together, not in isolation. Our mission is to create a community where independent comms consultants can share knowledge, sharpen their craft, and gain the confidence to own their work, their value, and their future. When the path feels uncertain, we return to this: we are here to transform comms careers into comms companies, and individuals into founders.
We don’t offer vague networking or endless chatter.
We do offer clear playbooks, ongoing guidance, and a network of peers who know what it takes to land clients, deliver impact, and build trust.
Our focus
Shifting your mindset from employee to bad ass business owner. Your clients are not your boss — they are working with you because you’re a qualified, worthy business partner. This mindset shift takes time and guidance. We teach you how to be a better business owner by learning to become ruthlessly problem-driven and identify the problems founders are desperate to solve.
Confidently package your services. Founders need support they can use today, not “someday.” Position yourself as the go-to expert in your space by showing up ready to fix their problems — not exploring if you’re a fit. Test your pricing, refine your pitches, and compare strategies with other consultants in the community who’ve been in your shoes to do this from day one.
Refine, pivot, and evolve. From discovery calls to proposals to launch strategies, you’ll sharpen your craft with real feedback, mentors, and peers who want you to win.
Grow with support, not alone. Get the mentorship, guidance, and tested frameworks you need to get your business running and land clients—because in consulting, time literally is money.
Just getting started? We’ve built practical roadmaps, based on real-world consulting wins and lessons, to help you define your services, structure your business, and land your first client.
we are your safety net, blueprint, and credibility engine
In the age of AI, consultants can’t just “wing it.” You need systems, the mindset to evolve with our ever-changing industry, a community that’s got your back, and tools that make you credible from day one. That’s exactly what Comms People gives you.
Tap into the Comms people community
Your team, your lab, your accountability engine
A safe place to test pitches, frameworks, and
pricing before you take them to clients
Real-time feedback and support from consultants who know the challenges of going out on
your ownMonthly workshops, 1-1 network matching,
weekly mentorship calls, and community expert sessions
Use our Comms program & business frameworks
Turn your expertise into products — not just tasks
Proven playbooks to help you package services founders actually buy
Templates and systems that move you from “glorified employee” to strategic partner
Outcome-based approaches so you’re not selling hours — you’re selling results
Step-by-step guidance on pricing, pitching, and productizing your skills
get resources used and created by active comms consultants
Tools built by people who are in the trenches
with you
Access to our Comms People GPT library
Real proposals, contracts, and scopes of work
tested in the wildCase studies and frameworks you can plug into
your client work immediatelyA living library that evolves with the market, curated and updated by working consultants
Hi, I’m Katie
I’m an active comms consultant, the co-founder of Comms People and the co-host of the Smart in Public podcast.
My consulting journey started like the day I was born: crying, unemployed, and alone.
Now that I’m three years in, I can honestly say that there has never been a better time to be a consultant. While full-time employees grapple with the fear of redundancy in the age of AI, comms consultants are gaining a superpower.
AI tools and capabilities will generate more founders than ever before. And, in a world of AI-generated content full of uniformed sentences and phrases, those new founders won’t be just fighting for customers, they’re fighting for narrative – but they can’t afford full-time top talent. Comms consultants are the last true human advantage for founders to stand out to their stakeholders. They need us, and they need us now.
If you’re willing to make the leap, the opportunity is massive… but most consultants don't survive their first year. That’s because doing comms is really hard and completely different when you’re on your own. You must shift your mindset from employee to business owner, you lose your team (this is the hardest part), you’re constantly researching and developing new resources, all while trying to get new and serve existing clients.
Sadly, your experience as a comms person doesn’t guarantee success as a consultant.
That's why we built Comms People.
It’s a place for comms people who are looking to build and run bad ass consulting businesses – not be glorified employees. We’re not sitting on job boards or waiting for referrals. We are researching business and pitching services that we know founders will need. We’re fearless in growing our network and investing in our learning. We know our worth and lift up our entire industry by clearly articulating how we help founders tell the stories that will shape industries for years to come. We’re vulnerable and open-minded so no obstacle can hold us back. And, just in case you need support, the Comms People community will arm you with the playbooks, resources, feedback, and ideas that you need to go out on your own and stay out on your own.
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