How Shawn Doyle Turned a Comcast L&D Role Into a 24-Book Consulting Empire
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Shawn Doyle shares insights on transforming training engagements into significant consulting opportunities.
How to Turn One-Day Trainings Into $200,000 Engagements What if the problem your client hired you to solve isn't the real problem at all? Shawn Doyle spent about six years as VP of Learning & Development at Comcast, where senior executives constantly told him "I need training" — and he quickly realized that what they actually needed was diagnosis. That insight, that he wasn't just in training but in consulting, became the foundation of his entire business. Now a leadership consultant, executive coach, Certified Speaking Professional, and author of more than 24 books, Shawn dismantles the myth that consultants should simply deliver whatever the client requests: great consultants ask better questions, diagnose before they prescribe, and set the stage early so they've earned the right to be brutally honest. Michael and Shawn break down the anatomy of a multi-six-figure training engagement — leading with the return on investment, running assessments across the organization, tailoring the training to the data, teaching leaders to hold their people accountable, and framing it all as a comprehensive three-year program instead of a one-day event. They also dig into how Shawn built…
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