A Consultant’s Journey

A podcast for independent HR and people, professionals, and the businesses they support. Hosted by Mary Asante and Charlotte Allfrey of HR Independents Ltd. 4th September 2023 Episode 6: A Consultant’s Journey Guest: Charlie Goodman of Employee Benefits Collective Episode 6 is the start of our next miniseries where we will be chatting to independent Consultants about their consultancy journey, the decisions they made along the way and lessons they have learnt.  Charlie has opted for a Partnership approach to his consultant journey, we chat to him about how he got to that point and how it works. In this episode, we also cover: How and why Charlie made the move into consultancy The concerns he had when considering going solo The value of networking with communities of people who had already made the move into consultancy The importance of knowing the limits of your expertise and when to engage other experts to support you (finance, marketing, business coaches, virtual assistants) Pricing and being wary of how much you are giving away for free Charlie refers to our HR Independent online community, which has 1600 members, we’d love to have you join us, just search for HR Independents on Facebook to find out more. Thanks for listening to HR Voices!  If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love it if you could leave us a review.  www.hrindependents.co.uk   https://www.linkedin.com/company/employee-benefits-collective-llp/   www.ebc-llp.com   https://www.instagram.com/charliegoodmoney   About our guest: Charlie is a Pensions and Financial Wellbeing Partner at the Employee Benefits Collective LLP, a Director of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing leading their workplace wellbeing group, Secretary of the CIPD Central London branch, and a mentor for the NextGen Pensions initiative. He qualified as a financial adviser, is an International Employee Benefits and Reward Specialist, and Certified Money Coach.