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You are an expert,
inefficiently deployed.
A self-deployment guide for professionals ready to seriously consider the leap into solo consulting.
You boarded the corporate plane willingly. But after a decade or two, you're stuck — professionally and emotionally. Maybe you were passed over. Maybe you're burning out chasing a ceiling that keeps rising. Maybe the company that ran on your energy handed you a severance package anyway. Maybe it was all of the above.
What you might not see yet is that buried underneath those years of projects, pivots, and unglamorous grind, you've built something rare: a constellation of expertise that is specific, transferable, and highly valuable.
Wes Wheless calls it The Expert's Privilege: the freedom to deploy your expertise as you see fit — outside the confines of the corporate grid, on the problems you care about, for the people you actually want to help.
The Expert's Privilege is a self-deployment guide for professionals ready to seriously consider the leap into solo consulting. Through 30+ original illustrations and frameworks, Wes maps the path from restlessness to clarity to true self-direction.
You've been packing your parachute for years. You just haven't jumped yet. Here's how.
What People Are Saying
Thinking about leaving corporate and finally going out on your own? Step 1: Read The Expert's Privilege. You can thank me later.
Jonathan Stark
Author, Hourly Billing Is Nuts
I appreciate anyone who is supporting others in pursuing their goals of freedom and self-employment. I can tell you Wes is the perfect person to listen to in this area.
Pia Silva
Author, Badass Your Brand, Scale Solo
Wes writes with his trademark wit, clarity, and great visuals... It's going to help a lot of people find the confidence to write their own next chapter.
Kymm Bartlett Martinez, MBA
Fractional CMO, Wilder Marketing Group
I highly recommend picking up a copy. It's effectively a field manual on the considerations and questions to ask yourself. It's easy to read and captivating.
Roger Mitchell
Executive Advisor
About the Author
Wes Wheless is an "expertise whisperer," founder of Develop My IP, and creator of The Lightbulb, a daily newsletter for corporates-turned-consultants.
After two consecutive tech layoffs, Wes traded a 20-year corporate career spanning consulting, enterprise, and startups 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.