YOUR OWN EARNING POWER™
You’ve Built Decades Of Expertise. What Could It Be Worth Beyond Your Salary?
EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT PATH COULD LOOK LIKE YET.
After almost two decades in corporate leadership, I built the Expertise to Enterprise Framework to help experienced professionals identify the commercial value they’ve built throughout their careers and explore how their expertise could create income that’s independent of any employer.
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Hi, I’m Ihab Badawi.
I spent almost two decades building a successful corporate career, eventually becoming Chief Commercial Officer with responsibility across 58 countries and a team of more than 2,000 people.
But as my career progressed, I started asking myself a different question:
How much of the value I’d built throughout my career could create income without an employer in the middle?
That question changed the way I thought about my career and eventually changed its direction too.
Since leaving corporate, I’ve built two companies of my own and developed programs carrying recognized professional accreditation, including ICF and EMCC. My career has also included working with organizations such as PwC, EY and BCG.
Today, I help experienced corporate professionals identify the commercial value they’ve built throughout their careers and explore how they could turn that expertise into income that’s independent of any employer.
That’s what Own Earning Power means, and I believe every experienced professional should have it.
If you’ve spent years becoming exceptionally good at what you do, there’s one question I want to help you answer:
Who would pay for what you already know?
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Why Your Experience May Be Worth More Than You Realize
When you’ve spent years doing something, it’s easy to forget how much you’ve learned along the way.
Problems that once required hours of thought may now take you minutes to diagnose. You’ve seen what works, made difficult decisions and developed judgment that only comes from experience.
Inside corporate, your expertise is attached to a role. There’s already an organization around you with customers, infrastructure, budgets and a reason for your role to exist.
When you start looking beyond your salary, you have to ask a different set of questions.
Which parts of your experience are valuable outside your current organization? Who needs what you know? What problems are you particularly qualified to solve? And how could somebody actually buy that expertise from you?
This is where your experience starts to become more than a career history.
It becomes something we can evaluate for its commercial potential.
The difficulty is that most of us never learn to look at that experience commercially.
Inside corporate, your expertise is attached to a role. There’s already an organization around you with customers, infrastructure, budgets and a reason for your role to exist.
When you start looking beyond your salary, you have to ask a different set of questions.
This is where your experience starts to become more than a career history.
It becomes something we can evaluate for its commercial potential.
MY MISSION
I Want More Experienced Professionals To Recognize The Value They’ve Already Built.
My mission is to help experienced professionals understand the commercial value they’ve spent their careers building and give them a credible way to explore what that expertise could become.
Understanding Your Own Earning Power
Your Salary Only Shows You One Expression Of Your Value
Your salary tells you what one organization is currently prepared to pay for the role you perform.
It doesn’t automatically tell you what your knowledge, judgment or problem-solving ability could be worth in another context.
To understand that, we need to look beneath the job title and identify where your experience has value in the market.
Experience Needs A Commercial Application
Having substantial experience gives us something valuable to work with, but experience on its own isn’t an offer.
We need to understand the problems you’re particularly equipped to solve, who has those problems and how your expertise could be packaged into something another person or organization can buy.
This can be surprisingly difficult to do for yourself.
The things you’ve been doing for years often feel ordinary to you precisely because you’ve become so good at doing them.
There May Be Several Ways To Commercialize What You Know
Your strongest opportunity could sit in consulting, coaching, mentoring, training or speaking.
For some professionals, the right model may combine more than one.
We don’t start by deciding what title you should put on LinkedIn.
We start with your expertise, the problems you can solve and where the market sees value.
From there, we can determine which commercial path makes sense.
Is This For You?
A QUESTION WORTH EXPLORING
You Don’t Need To Be Ready To Leave Corporate To Start Thinking About What Comes Next…
You may be perfectly happy in your current role and simply want to understand what other options your experience could create.
Perhaps you’ve started thinking more seriously about the next stage of your career, or you’d like to build an additional source of income that gives you greater independence from one employer.
You may already have considered consulting, coaching, mentoring, training or speaking, but you’re unsure which path genuinely fits your experience or whether there’s a viable business there at all.
What matters at this stage is that you have substantial professional experience behind you and you’re willing to look at it differently.
If you’ve found yourself wondering: “What could I actually build from what I already know?”
If that sounds familiar, I’d love to help you explore the answer.
Your First Step: The Own Earning Power Clarity Call
A complimentary 30-minute conversation to explore your background, your goals and where your expertise may have commercial potential.
Before You Build Anything, Let’s Understand What You’re Working With.
Your complimentary 30-minute Own Earning Power Clarity Call gives you the opportunity to speak with a member of my team about where you are today and what you’re hoping to explore.
We’ll look at your professional background, the expertise you’ve accumulated and what may currently be preventing you from turning that experience into independent income.
You don’t need to arrive with a business idea or know which direction you should take.
The purpose of the conversation is to understand your situation and determine whether there’s enough commercial potential to warrant exploring it more deeply.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be ready to leave corporate?
No. You can explore the commercial potential of your expertise while you’re still employed. Understanding what your options are doesn’t commit you to making a career change.
What if I have no idea what kind of business I could build?
That’s completely fine. You don’t need to arrive with an offer, a business model or even a clear idea of which direction you want to take. We’ll start with your experience and explore where the commercial potential may exist.
Are you going to tell me to become a coach?
No. Coaching is one possible path, alongside consulting, mentoring, training and speaking. The right direction depends on your expertise, the problem you can solve and where there’s genuine market demand.
Do I need another certification?
That depends on the path you eventually pursue. Additional credentials may be useful or appropriate in some situations, while your existing expertise and track record may carry considerably more weight in others.
What happens on the Own Earning Power Clarity Call?
You’ll have a complimentary 30-minute conversation with a member of our team. We’ll learn more about your professional background, what you’re hoping to achieve and whether there’s an opportunity worth exploring in greater depth.
What happens after the call?
If we believe a deeper planning process would be useful, we’ll invite you to work with us. We’ll explain what that involves before you decide whether you’d like to continue. No pressure, and absolutely no obligation.
Can I explore this while I’m still employed?
Yes, although you’ll need to consider any contractual, regulatory or professional restrictions that apply to your particular circumstances.
How much does the Clarity Call cost?
The Own Earning Power Clarity Call is complimentary.
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