Becoming a Case Consultant (BCC)
Solve Real Business Problems. Build Your Portfolio.
Becoming a Case Consultant is a place to build consulting skills if you’re starting out and your tool to transform expertise into income.
Becoming a Case Consultant (BCC)
Solve Real Business Problems. Build Your Portfolio.
Becoming a Case Consultant is a place to build consulting skills if you’re starting out and your tool to transform expertise into income.
A Step-by-Step Journey From Practice to Master
Practice
You can choose between two consulting paths: Digital Marketing with U.S. clients or Strategy & Management for nonprofit organizations. Each path gives you practical experience and helps strengthen your consulting portfolio.
Master
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.
Outcomes at a Glance
Hands-on projects with real businesses
Portfolio ready for LinkedIn & job applications
Work on global brand challenges, not hypothetical case studies
Boost your confidence to land internships or full-time roles
Outcomes at a Glance
Hands-on projects with real businesses
Portfolio ready for LinkedIn & job applications
Work on global brand challenges, not hypothetical case studies
Boost your confidence to land internships or full-time roles
Testimonials
Ready to practice and master your consulting skills?
Frequently Asked Questions
“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.
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.
BCC
(Becoming Case Consultant)
MYCC
(Making Your Consulting Case)
BE-EDGE
Consult-a-thon
You are here
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.
BCC
(Becoming Case Consultant)
You are here
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.
MYCC
(Making Your Consulting Case)
a case consulting session that align with your passions, honing real-world skills through hands-on learning.
Get real-world experience solving actual client problems in our fundamental case consulting course
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“E”: This Case as Your Stepping Stone Towards Elucidating Your Core
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“D”: Develop trust – Connecting with the Case
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“G”: Generate value- Analyzing & Solving the Case
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“E”: Excite the market – Your Message
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Taking BCC qualifies you to join “A case of the month” community; a community of case consultants – all working on the same case.
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Invitation to a Q&A session with a mentor for the case of the month
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Your submission will be invited for a competition, only if you want it.
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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 offer students valuable hands-on experience and practical challenges.
We have a line of different consulting cases. You can select several relevant for you – to polish your skills and build a portfolio.
BCC: Becoming a Case Consultant opens the door to BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon and BE-EDGE Ecosystem of projects and events.
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
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.
