I’m Mina, founder of Business Path. I help senior professionals and founders leave corporate and build a consulting practice that actually pays — using systems drawn from 3,000+ real founder interactions and an 80% grant success rate. Score your fit below, then let’s talk.
Score yourself honestly. If it's not the right time, I'll say so — and point you at what is. About a third of the people who take this land on 'not yet.' That's the point.
People in my network already ask for my help on this specific problem — unprompted.
I've been the go-to person for one specific problem for 10+ years.
I can name who signs the cheque and which budget line it comes from.
I have 6+ months of cushion (severance, savings) to build without panic.
In the last 30 days I ran a real test — a discovery call, a pitch, a paid pilot. Not research.
I'd rather price on the cost of the client's problem than defend an hourly rate.
I'm willing to flip my LinkedIn to 'Founder / Consultant' inside 30 days.
When you have your score, bring it to a call — I'll walk you through what to do next.
Book a call with me →Your practice is a sentence before it's a company. Draft yours live. If it doesn't fit in one paragraph, it isn't sharp enough yet — and that's exactly what we'll fix together on our first call.
Specific enough that you could name three people who fit.
The one that costs them real money if it stays broken.
The specific thing no checklist can replace.
I help [a specific buyer] solve [a specific expensive problem] using [my specific edge].
Have a draft? Send it to me on a call and we'll pressure-test it live.
Book a call with me →Value pricing sounds abstract until you run the math on your own numbers. The floor, anchor, and ceiling below are the same model my clients use to sign their first contracts with confidence.
Year one honesty: most solo practices bill 40–55% of a full-time week.
Anchor to consequence, not effort. A $2M problem justifies a $160k engagement.
Below this you're subsidizing the client. Walk away.
Where recent launches signed their first contracts.
Cap the first three deals here. Learn the value before you chase it.
My clients typically sign their first contract between $175–$225/hr with a written escalator built in. One anchored his intro rate: “$175 through Dec 31, standard $200 at renewal.” The discount became a scheduled raise. That’s the pattern I’ll help you install.
Not sure where you should really price? Let's walk through your numbers together.
Book a call with me →This is what I run in month one with every new client. Not a business plan — a decision-forcing design. Five real-world tests that produce evidence, not slide decks.
Five experiments. Thirty days. This is what I run in month one with every new client. Cross off what you’ve done. Book the call on day 31 — or sooner, if you’re already moving.
Want me in the corner while you run these? That's exactly what a first call is for.
Book a call with me →This is the method behind every engagement I run. Warm intros in, signed outcomes out. Same-day recaps. Commitment gates. Action over advice — always.
Warm intro in, warm reply out — within hours, not days. Nearly every client I work with came through a three-way intro, not a cold channel. Speed is the marketing.
Rapport → background dig ('where have you been the go-to person?') → direction → fear inventory → smallest-possible test → recap with next session booked. We meet as peers, not student and teacher.
Commitments in writing, checkbox format, booking link, inside four hours. This single habit moved my client repeat-session rate from 33% to 73% year over year.
Tests with dates and named people. Ten targeted conversations. Six coffees with a specific question. One live buyer meeting on the calendar. Session two reviews evidence, not feelings.
No completed homework, no next session. This protects your hours from becoming talk therapy — and it filters for the people who will actually build something.
Five patterns show up in my practice: Senior Corporate Transitioner, Expert Practitioner, Accountable Action-Taker, Direction-Seeker, and the fastest — the Inbound-Demand Expert, where demand already exists and the work is packaging.
Incorporation, banking, invoicing, insurance, domain, LinkedIn — all checklist. The wedge is what no checklist does: hearing the understated brilliance in 30 years of experience, packaging it, and pricing it with courage.
You get a warm handoff with standing check-in offers. The person who referred you gets a same-day progress note. Update, then next referral. Every time.
Curious whether my method fits your situation? Let's find out on a 30-minute call.
Book a call with me →Names removed, industries kept. The honest no matters most: without it, referrers stop referring — and my practice runs on referrals.
Referred to me on a Monday. Three sessions together: structure, package & price, close & protect. Between them he incorporated, opened the business account, bought the domain, and signed his first contract at $175/hr with a written escalator to $200 at renewal. A second inbound arrived before session three.
SWOT, offer design, and SOW discipline over four months together. His LinkedIn now reads Founder. We kept the practice deliberately LinkedIn-only for year one — no website until the offer was proven in three signed engagements. A good template for anyone who needs structured support past their runway.
Three sessions turned a lifelong passion into a registered company running paid discovery interviews. Retirees exploring encore ventures are a real category I work with, not an edge case. The 'am I too old' question answered itself once she had a live buyer conversation on the calendar.
One senior professional tested the idea for a single session and took a job three weeks later. A 25-year HSE veteran sharpened his positioning and accepted a contract role instead. A government-relations transitioner chose corporate. Roughly a third of the people I meet land on 'not yet,' quickly, with no hard feelings. This is why my referrers keep referring.
Roughly two-thirds of my roster comes from energy and pipelines — a real Alberta restructuring wave, not a coincidence. Sector depth compounds: the second HSE director I coach takes half the time of the first.
If you see yourself in any of these stories, that's a good sign we should talk.
Book a call with me →One 30-minute call. Bring your score, your niche paragraph, or just the questions keeping you up. I’ll tell you honestly whether working together makes sense — and what to do next either way.
I’m based in Calgary and work with founders across Alberta and beyond.