Economics

The Economics

The engagement model and how the revenue works. Stated plainly.

Most advisory practices obscure their economics. This page does not.

Full engagements. Not individual conversations.

The engagement model is built on full engagements, not on individual conversations. This is a deliberate structural choice, not a pricing strategy.

The work Elevate Career does requires sustained advisory across a defined engagement arc. An executive working through the three phases of the methodology needs a relationship with continuity — a thinking partner who holds full context on their strategy, their positioning, and their non-negotiables, across the weeks and months that the work actually takes.

An engagement model creates that continuity. It also allows the advisor to focus entirely on the quality of the work rather than on managing a conversation-by-conversation billing arrangement that serves neither party.

Advisors retain meaningful autonomy in setting their own client fees, accounting for local market conditions and purchasing power. Fee guidance, recommended ranges by level, and engagement structure are provided in full during the admission process and formalised in the Practice Agreement.

How the revenue sharing works. Stated plainly.

The Standard Royalty

80%

Career Strategy Advisor

Primary practitioner

20%

Elevate Career

Brand, IP, infrastructure

For all client engagements conducted under the Elevate Career brand using the proprietary methodology. The 20% applies to net revenue — the gross engagement fee minus unavoidable external costs including payment processing, platform charges, and currency conversion. The net revenue calculation ensures that neither party bears a disproportionate share of transaction costs.

Practice-Introduced Clients

70%

Career Strategy Advisor

Primary practitioner

30%

Elevate Career

Acquisition + matching

Where a client is introduced to an advisor directly by the Elevate Career practice or by the founder, the split reflects the cost of acquisition and client matching.

This is not a penalty. It is an honest accounting of the acquisition cost — the market presence and intelligence required to attract and qualify senior executive clients at the level Elevate Career serves.

Peer-to-Peer Introductions

70%

Practising Advisor

Delivers the engagement

10%

Introducing Advisor

Peer referral

20%

Elevate Career

Brand, IP, infrastructure

Advisors are encouraged to introduce executive clients to peers within the practice when a better match exists — by sector, geography, or situation type. Advisors who refer to a better-matched colleague serve both the client and the practice’s standard. The 10% fee acknowledges that service.

The Venture Model

On a selective, case-by-case basis, the practice may subsidise the training investment for a high-potential advisor in exchange for an adjusted revenue-sharing arrangement during the training period. This is not a standard arrangement and is not available on request. It is discussed directly with the relevant candidate during the admission process when the conditions apply.

Intellectual property. Stated directly.

The provisions below will be reflected in the formal Practice Agreement that every admitted advisor signs before beginning training. They are stated here because the practice prefers clarity to ambiguity on matters of this kind.

01Ownership of the methodology

All Elevate Career materials — frameworks, session protocol, output document templates, diagnostic tools, and all associated IP — are the sole property of Elevate Career. Advisors are granted a licence to use them in the delivery of client engagements. They do not acquire ownership of them.

02Licence to practice

Elevate Career grants each admitted advisor a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the methodology and brand in the delivery of client engagements. This licence is contingent upon active membership in good standing, adherence to the revenue-sharing structure, and maintenance of the practice’s quality standards.

03Post-admission restrictions

Upon termination of the practice relationship, the advisor ceases using all Elevate Career terminology, frameworks, and brand identifiers immediately. A 24-month restriction on operating a competing senior executive career advisory practice incorporating the principles of the LUCAP methodology applies from the date of termination.

04Client continuity

Any executive client engaged through the Elevate Career brand remains a practice client for the duration of the engagement and for any subsequent engagement within 24 months. An advisor who terminates their practice relationship may not continue to serve practice-introduced clients independently during the post-admission restriction period.

05Liquidated damages

Material breach of the IP provisions carries a significant financial consequence, specified in the Practice Agreement. Because the damage caused by unauthorised use of the methodology is material but difficult to quantify at the time of a dispute, the agreement specifies a liquidated damages provision. The principle is non-negotiable. The specific figure is set in the formal agreement.

These provisions are protective, not punitive. The practice does not assume bad faith on the part of the professionals it admits. It is being honest about the economic reality that the methodology has genuine market value — and that every advisor who joins benefits from its protection as much as the practice does.

Introducing other qualified professionals.

30%

Dividend on training
investment

Advisors who introduce other qualified professionals to the admission process — and whose referral is subsequently admitted — receive a 30% dividend on the admitted advisor’s training investment across both components at all levels.

This is a peer nomination process, not an open referral arrangement. Candidates must still complete the full admission process on their own merits. The dividend is the practice’s acknowledgement that the best advisors tend to know other advisors of equivalent calibre.

The admission process begins with a short written expression of interest — three paragraphs, no formal prompts. If the fit exists, the practice moves quickly.

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