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    Slide Find your consulting project Becoming A Case Consultant (BCC) Learn and practice consulting in the industry of your choice.
    A short course to prepare you for consulting projects
    D - Develop TRUST ——————————

    Why join?

    BCC is a tool that helps you build your ’boutique employability’ as a problem-solver—learning, practicing, and applying your  consulting skills.

    Case Consulting Skills You Gain:

    • Converting a client problem into a case challenge to work on
    • Data collection and case writing
    • Problem-solving that proves your credibility
    • Communicating clearly and empathetically
    • Organization and time management

    Everyone Wants Experience. We Help You Get It.

    Level 1 – Learn

    Pick one hands-on projects with real companies—from fashion design, to content planning, to market research. Learn digital marketing by doing the work that matters, building your skills and your portfolio from day one.

    Build Your Portfolio

    Level 2 – Practice

    We offer a bundle for all three real-brand projects to master different areas of digital marketing. This is where you level up—build range, gain confidence, and show you can deliver across industries.

    Check Our Bundle

    Level 3 – Masters

    Turn your knowledge into income by building your own online course from the ground up. Learn how to structure your content, connect with your audience, and launch with confidence. You’ll come away with a market-ready course and the skills to sell it.

    Make Your BCC Masters

    Level 1 – Learn

    Build your foundation in digital marketing by learning the core skills: SEO, content creation, and strategy. Apply what you learn through a real-world case study and walk away with a solid portfolio piece. This is your first step toward standing out in the digital space.

    Build Your Portfolio

    Level 2 – Practice

    Combine three powerful courses to sharpen your social media skills across platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. You’ll learn how to create content that connects, build engagement, and track what actually works. This bundle helps you move from “posting” to performing.

    Master Your Digital Marketing Skills

    Level 3 – Masters

    Turn your knowledge into income by building your own online course from the ground up. Learn how to structure your content, connect with your audience, and launch with confidence. You’ll come away with a market-ready course and the skills to sell it.

    Own Your Expertise

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    Ready to learn and practice consulting?

    Find your consulting project!

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What is Becoming a Case Consultant (BCC) about?

    “Becoming a Case Consultant” course provides the fundamentals to becoming a proficient case consultant. Through a blend of engaging real-world case studies and hands-on assignments, you will develop the essential skills needed to excel in this dynamic field. You’ll gain practical knowledge that can be applied immediately in the consulting arena.

    The BCC course is a part of the “YOUR EMPLOYABILITY” division of BE-EDGE Ecosystem, where participants are welcomed to join edge-crafters community.

    What topics are covered in the course?

    The course follows four E-D-G-E steps, each of which includes an introductory video, and easy-to-follow instructions, self-check questions, examples, and case consulting practicums. The result of the course is your investment in your BE – boutique employability — of clear focus, trustful connection, portfolio of generated value, and exciting message to potential clients and employers.

    Elucidate your core:

    • Define your area of focus and expertise.
    • Identify your strengths and interests.

    Develop trust:

    • Craft and structure your consulting case.
    • Establish credibility and rapport with the client.

    Generate value – Analyzing & Solving the Case:

    • Analyze the case problem thoroughly.
    • Generate insights and potential solutions.
    • Present a well-structured and strategic solution.

    Excite the market – Your Edge:

    • Showcase your unique value proposition.
    • Highlight what sets you apart as a consultant.
    • Engage and attract clients through your distinct edge.

    What happens after taking the BCC course?

    BCC

    (Becoming  Case Consultant)

    MYCC

    (Making Your Consulting Case)

    BE-EDGE
    Consult-a-thon

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    a case consulting session that align with your passions, honing real-world skills through hands-on learning.

    a two-weekend virtual event where all career changers, employers, and mentors meet to achieve a mutual benefit for all — a competitive edge in the global market.

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    BCC

    (Becoming  Case Consultant)

    You are here

    Register Now

    BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon

    a two-weekend virtual event where all career changers, employers, and mentors meet to achieve a mutual benefit for all — a competitive edge in the global market.

    Learn more

    MYCC

    (Making Your Consulting Case)

    a case consulting session that align with your passions, honing real-world skills through hands-on learning.

    Learn more

    What opportunities can you expect as you navigate your case consulting journey?

    Get real-world experience solving actual client problems in our fundamental case consulting course

    Fundamental Consulting Course
    4 modules
    • “E”: This Case as Your Stepping Stone Towards Elucidating Your Core

    • “D”: Develop trust – Connecting with the Case

    • “G”: Generate value- Analyzing & Solving the Case

    • “E”: Excite the market – Your Message

    Case Consultant Community
    • Taking BCC qualifies you to join “A case of the month” community; a community of case consultants – all working on the same case.

    • Invitation to a Q&A session with a mentor for the case of the month

    Competition (Optional)
    • Your submission will be invited for a competition, only if you want it.

    • Feedback from experts in the field: each submitted solution will receive feedback from
      practitioners.

    • Meeting a client: The authors of strongest solutions will have a chance to meet the client.

    Real client projects

    Real client projects offer students valuable hands-on experience and practical challenges.

    Building a portfolio

    We have a line of different consulting cases. You can select several relevant for you – to polish your skills and build a portfolio.

    First step to Be-Edge Ecosystem

    BCC: Becoming a Case Consultant opens the door to BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon and BE-EDGE Ecosystem of projects and events.

    What cases are included?

    All cases are real, US-based organizations with social missions.

    They vary in size and type of ownership:

    • from small businesses to large government agencies, 
    • from C2C marketplaces to organic farms and volunteer-based global NGOs

    The challenges vary in nature: 

    • from digital marketing campaign to portfolio reconfiguration, 
    • from approaching Gen Z to entering a new market, 
    • from efficiency of operation to product design and user-friendly repackaging

    Who is the case author and case coach of BCC?

    The course is based on the BE-EDGE Method, developed by Julia Ivy, Ph.D. Psych, Ph.D. Mgmt , which helps develop skills and boost confidence to those who are brave to enter a new professional territory.

    The instructions and videos of the BCC: Becoming a Case Consultant course are developed by Dr. Julia ivy’s former master students, who are driven with the idea of helping others in their “entering a new territory” journey.

    Kelsey (Kexin) is the management director of BeEDGE club. Her story with BE-EDGE starts from a course with Dr. Julia Ivy. Perusing in further education in U.S, at NorthEastern University, from another country is both exciting and intimidating, and the strategy course, BE-EDGE method, and Dr. Julia Ivy helped her position herself in the new market.

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