A Field Guide for Converting Corporate Expertise into Consulting, Coaching, and NED Portfolios
by Jamie Sylvian
Launch a Low-Stress, Location-Independent Executive Portfolio Business in 30 Days.
The Rise of The Executive Nomad
This is not a career change book. This is not a job search manual.
And it is definitely not about starting again.
You are standing at a junction. One road leads back to the job market, where you will likely be considered "overqualified" or "too expensive." The other road leads to retirement, for which you are not ready.
This field guide shows how to transform corporate expertise into a portfolio of consulting, coaching, and NED roles that travel with you. It is written for executives who want freedom of structure, location independence, and control without abandoning credibility.
Executive Nomad is written for senior professionals who have already done the hard part.
Decades of leadership.
Real responsibility.
Boardrooms, restructures, wins, losses, and lessons.
And now find themselves asking a quieter, more critical question;
What's next?
Executive Nomad is for high level managers, directors, VPs, and senior executives who are stepping away from the corporate merry go round. Not to retire, but to deliberately design the next chapter of work and life.
A chapter with control over:
* Time
* Income
* Location
* And how their career experience is actually used
This book shows you how to cash in your experience chips without becoming a freelancer, chasing clients, or pretending to be a twenty five year old online entrepreneur.
Inside, you will learn how to:
* Extract commercial value from your career wins, losses, and lessons
* Reposition yourself as a consultant, coach, mentor, workshop facilitator, or non executive director
* Build a portfolio style career that works part time but pays properly
* Create a location independent income that gives you genuine freedom to live and work globally
* Avoid the traps of CV rewriting, job boards, and hope based LinkedIn strategies
This is not theory.
It is a framework built from over 25 years of board level consulting across multiple countries, industries, and power structures.
Executive Nomad is for people who want:
* Autonomy without chaos
* Freedom without financial anxiety
* Status without politics
* And work that fits life, not the other way around
If you are looking for another job, this book is not for you.
If you are ready to deliberately design a location independent, experience led, high trust career on your terms, you are exactly where you should be.
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Debra Mitchell PhD Clinical Research Advisor and Consultant
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Publishing
Executive Nomad is a shared imprint for experienced professionals who choose to publish with authority, not noise. Alongside core Executive Nomad titles, the imprint is open to clients, collaborators, and practitioners who have earned the right to put their thinking into print. These are not vanity projects or personal brand exercises. Each book is designed to codify lived experience, hard-won insight, and practical frameworks that stand on their own. Authors publishing under the Executive Nomad imprint are typically senior operators, advisors, consultants, or former executives who are transitioning into a more independent, location-flexible chapter of work. The imprint provides structure, positioning, and credibility, while the voice and substance remain the author’s own. Executive Nomad exists to house serious work by people who have something real to say, and the judgement to say it well.