From zero to a consultant who actually knows things.
You don't need an MBA to give good advice. You need a working model of how businesses make money, a financial vocabulary, a small set of sharp thinking tools, and the discipline to use them honestly. This guide builds that — 13 modules, plain language, with free sources to go deeper.
How to use this. Work top to bottom — each module builds on the last. Read the explanation, do the self-checks (recalling an answer beats re-reading it), then open a free resource to go deeper on anything thin. Mark a module complete when it clicks; your progress saves on this device. The final module is a hands-on capstone you run on a real business.
A note on honesty, because a good consultant needs it: this guide will make you literate and genuinely useful, but it is not a substitute for reps with real clients, and it is not licensed financial or legal advice. Where the gap between marketing language and reality matters — including claims like "world's first" — the guide flags it, because knowing that difference is part of the job.