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“$1.2B In Sales managed, 2,350 People Under My Command, 58 Countries Dominated And At The Height Of My Career As A CCO & VP Business Ops I Knew It Was All Coming To An End…”
10 more years in corporate wasn’t an option. I knew I had to do something, and what I did next enabled me to net $1,200,909… and I’ve guided more than 2,500 others to do the same.
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My students and
I have consulted:
“Where is my equity?”
“Where is MY equity?”
“WHERE IS MY EQUITY!?”
By the third time he repeated
it, he was practically shouting it.
A colleague of mine just walked out of a meeting where he was blamed for every failure on a project… While receiving ZERO credit for any of the successes his strategic input had generated.
Sound familiar?
This moment was a turning point in my career. Because up until then I had never really considered that all the long hours I was putting in…
Leading teams across more than 58 countries…
And generating hundreds of millions for various businesses over a 20-year career…
Should actually pay me a lot more than a six-figure salary.
But once this idea was planted into my head…
I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
I eventually walked away from my role as CCO…
I already began making 60% more than I had in my previous corporate role.
Think about what 60% MORE income might look like for you…
Think about what 60% MORE income might look like for you…
Is it $40,000 more per year?
Whatever number springs to mind, here’s the thing…
It’s likely FAR MORE than that.
Since leaving corporate life behind, I’ve gone on to start a 7-figure business. Built real income AND equity that I own and control.
And today, I want to share with you exactly how I did it.
And not just how I did it… But how I’ve guided more than 2,500 former executives towards high six- and seven-figure incomes across coaching, mentorship, consultancy, and training roles…
With a proven system that works even if you have no idea what you'd sell, who you'd sell it to, or whether anyone would pay for it. Keep reading now and you’ll discover…
Why the expertise you've spent 20+ years building is worth 5 to 10 times what your employer pays you for it...
Why you can't see that value yourself (this is the exact reason smart, accomplished executives stay stuck)...
And the 5-phase framework I use to help executives package what they already know into a Service-Based Enterprise, creating their Own Earning Power…
Not a side hustle.
Not a "passion project."
A real business, built on your expertise, that pays you long after your corporate career ends.
You won't need to quit your job to start. You won't need to build an audience, learn to dance on social media, or start over at the bottom.
Everything you need, you already have.
You just can't see it yet. And later on this page I'll show you the exact reason why. But first, you're probably wondering who I am and why you should listen to a word I say.
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I Was A CCO Across 58 Countries And Still Didn't Own A Thing. Here's How To Avoid Making My Mistake...
My name is Ihab Badawi, and I spent over 20 years in corporate, working my way from international sales all the way up to Chief Commercial Officer. Early in my career, I worked on projects with the World Bank and the European Commission. And by the end, I was responsible for operations across 58 countries and 2,350 people. I earned a salary most people would consider "made it" money. And if anyone had a safe, comfortable seat at the corporate table... it was me.
But when my colleague stormed out of that meeting shouting about his equity, I finally saw my situation clearly.
Every system I built stayed with the company.
Every framework, every methodology, every hard-won insight from two decades of solving expensive problems...all of it sat inside a business someone else owned.
If they restructured tomorrow, I'd walk out with a severance package and good wishes… But no ongoing income… Nothing to call my own. So I resigned. And within 15 days, my consulting income was already 60% higher than my CCO salary. I had the same expertise. The same knowledge. I was the same man.
But I totally changed how the market perceived my skills and value.
Since then, I've built a seven-figure business around that expertise, trained more than 2,500 executives, and become certified as a coach, mentor, trainer, consultant and public speaker at the international level. Which means when I tell you your expertise is worth far more than your salary... I'm speaking from experience, on both sides of the table.
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“My vision is to Impact Millions to transform and Own Their Earning Power and gain their freedom and their future”
Ihab Badawi
Founder Coaches Circle Academy
Coached 2,500+
Execs & Enterprises
I'm invited to speak and hold events to help experts just like you transition into a thriving business
2,500+ executives trust me for the exact outcome you're looking for. Hear their journeys below
"He helped me reconnect with the leader who had always been there, but who had become quieter."
Tania
"Ihab can make your story not only your achievement, but the foundation on which you build your next business."
Oriana
"Because of the trust and support, I've built my own brand and the confidence to provide my services outside my organization."
Hadi
"He held up a mirror and showed me I was ready to go independent, well before I believed it myself."
Catrinel
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I'm Here To Tell You You're Worth 2-10X More Than You're Getting Paid… This Is How You Claim it…
If you've read this far, it's not by accident.
Maybe you've caught yourself in meetings lately, thinking, "I've done this a hundred times. Is this really what the next ten years look like?"
Maybe your wife has said it out loud: "You don't seem excited about work anymore."
You're not burnt out. You're done. Ready for the next chapter.
But every time you think seriously about it, the same questions come up:
"What would I actually do?"
"Could I really replace this income?"
"What if I walk away from 25 years of seniority and fall flat on my face?"
So you tell yourself you'll figure it out next year.
That's the most expensive decision you're making right now.
Because every year you delay, it gets harder to start.
And one day you look up and you're 60, retired, and the whole thing just... never happened. That's if you're lucky enough to choose your own timing.
Because somewhere above you, there's a board, a private equity firm, or a spreadsheet that decides whether you still have a job next quarter.
You've seen how it goes. The Tuesday meeting invite with no agenda. The colleague with 22 years of service carrying a box to the lift by lunchtime.
And you at your desk, thinking: "If that had been me... I don't have a plan."
If that day arrives before you've built something of your own, you don't just lose a job. You lose the choice.
It doesn't have to go that way.
The executives I work with who started early are living proof. By the time a restructure reaches their department, it doesn't matter. They've already built their exit.
Some walk out months before the announcement, straight
into consulting work that pays three times the salary they
left behind.
Others stay on their own terms, running a coaching
practice on the side until the numbers make the decision
easy.
Either way, they choose the date.
So what separates them from everyone else?
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Why 97% Of Executives Who Leave Corporate End Up Back On LinkedIn Within A Year (And The 5 Income Paths The Other 3% Build)
Of all the people who leave corporate to build something around their expertise, whether that's consulting, coaching, training or advisory work...
97% of them fail.
They leave with a big dream and a leaving party. And within a year, most of them are back on LinkedIn, searching for a role, rehearsing how they'll explain the gap in their CV. I've watched it happen to brilliant people. Sharper than me, some of them. So what went wrong? It wasn't a lack of expertise. They had 20+ years of it. It wasn't work ethic. These are people who ran divisions. Here's what actually happened. They introduced themselves to potential clients the same way they'd present themselves in a job interview. "25 years in HR leadership." "Former VP of Operations." And nothing happened. No calls. No contracts. Polite conversations that went nowhere.
Because clients don't buy CVs. They buy solutions to expensive problems.
And nobody ever taught these executives how to take what's in their head and turn it into something a client can see, understand and pay a premium for.
The 3% who make it figured that out.
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"If you've made it this far, I want to give you 3 key bonuses worth over $9,000 for my private clients"
Claim Your Free 30-Minute Expertise-to-Enterprise Strategy Session Today And Walk Away With 3 Additional Perks Valued At $9,000
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The Client Enrollment Grant
The system that helps you land your first paying client once you finish the program. In your session, you'll learn exactly how it works and what it unlocks for you. A real, invoiced client you can build a portfolio around, not demo accounts or case studies.
02
A Personal Branding Blueprint
The framework and strategies I used to go from successful but 'incognito' executive to an author, so you know how to position yourself as the go-to expert in your niche, before you've signed a single client...
03
The Niche & Positioning Roadmap
Drawn from the expertise you've spent a lifetime building, so you know precisely who to serve, and whether you should charge them $5,000, $20,000 or $50,000, and exactly why…
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The Expertise-to-Enterprise Framework™: How The Top 3% Transform A Corporate Career Into Their Own Earning Power…
It's the exact system I used to go from CCO to a seven-figure business. It works in five phases:
Extract.
We uncover the intellectual capital buried under 25 years of "just doing my job." The frameworks, decisions and success patterns you use without thinking. Most executives discover they own far more commercial value than they believed.
Architect.
We turn that knowledge into assets a client can buy. Instead of "I've worked in HR for 25 years," you say "I use a proven five-stage methodology that cuts staff turnover by 37%." One is a CV line. The other is a $50,000 engagement.
Accredit.
You gain internationally recognised certification through one of the ICF, EMCC, CMI and IMC in the pathway that fits your strengths, personality and income target. More on the pathways in a moment.
Position.
We build your market identity. Who you serve, what expensive problem you solve, and why clients would choose you over a big firm. This becomes your Individual Development Plan.
Commercialise.
We package, price and guide to launch. This is where every other program stops and where our real work begins, including support to land your first client.
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The Five Profit Pathways: How Your Expertise Gets Paid
Inside the framework, your expertise can be monetised through five proven pathways. Each is an established profession in its own right:
Companies pay to make expensive problems disappear. Engagements regularly run to five figures, and a single well-positioned project can reach $100,000.
Organisations pay practitioner-led trainers $2,500 to $5,000 a day, and book the good ones on repeat contracts year after year.
Senior leaders invest $1,000 to $3,000 in a few hours a month with a coach who has actually sat in their chair and stay 6 to 12 months at a time.
Ambitious professionals pay $500 to $1,500 a month for structured access to the playbook that took you two decades to write.
Established corporate speakers command $5,000 to $20,000 per keynote, and every audience contains your future consulting, coaching and training clients.
You don't start with all five. One pathway is your natural entry point, and the pathways compound: a keynote generates a consulting engagement, consulting uncovers a training contract, training rooms produce coaching clients, and your best coaching clients become long-term mentees. Pick the right entry point, and reaching $15K a month within your first 90 days out of corporate becomes a realistic target.
Pick the wrong one, and you join the 97% who burn their savings figuring it out by trial and error.
So how do you know which one is yours? That's exactly what I'd like to show you.
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Give Me 30 Minutes, And I'll Show You Which Of The 5 Pathways Will Get You To Your First $15K Month…
But here's the honest truth.
Right now, I don't know you.
I don't know your industry, your experience, or what you've achieved over the last 25 years.
I don't know if you're the executive who should be commanding $100,000 consulting engagements...
Or the natural mentor whose playbook could shape a generation of leaders.
And anyone who claims they can hand you the right answer without knowing those things is guessing with your future.
That's why the first step is a conversation.
I call it the free Expertise-to-Enterprise Strategy Session.
In a 30 minute call with me or a team member, we’ll do three things:
Using the same assessment I use with my private clients, we look at your experience, your strengths and your personality. Then we identify whether your fastest route out of corporate is consulting, training, coaching, mentoring or speaking.
We take the expertise you've been giving your employer at a salary discount and work out how to package it. Your niche. Your offer. Why a client would pay you premium fees instead of hiring a big firm.
A personalised roadmap from where you are now to a recognised service-based business.
Built around your expertise, your timeline and your income target. I charge $1,500 for this work inside my private programs. You'll leave the call with it for free.
And if it makes sense to work together beyond that, we'll guide you step by step through the full process: getting you certified, positioned and ready to launch your second chapter within 90 days.
Because there's a difference between charging decent fees and charging premium fees: credentials matter.
Clients pay more, and object less, when your expertise carries internationally recognised certification behind it.
It's why I became certified as a coach, mentor, trainer, consultant and speaker at the international level.
And it's why my programs take you through the same certifications, recognised by the ICF, EMCC, CMI and IMC.
So you can walk into any market in the world and be taken seriously from day one.
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The 3% Club: Executives Now Earning $15K, $40K, Even $100K A Month From Expertise Their Employers Used To Get For A Salary…
For more than two decades I made my living as a strategic consultant. I knew how to read a business, diagnose what was broken, and design the systems to fix it. I knew a great deal, but I knew only a little about coaching, and I treated it as something adjacent to my work rather than central to it.
That changed the day I attended Ihab Badawi's masterclass on executive and culture coaching. Within that single session, something clicked. What he was teaching wasn't separate from my mission and vision, it was the missing language for it. Choosing to continue into his courses and mentorship turned out to be one of the wisest professional decisions I have made.
What followed went far beyond a certificate. Across many collaborations Ihab was generous enough to give me his time to direct me, to challenge me, and to coach me toward the niche had been circling for years without naming. That was the turning point. Coaching stopped being a tool I occasionally reached for and became the lens through which I now see everything I do.
The real shift was integration. When I combine coaching, consulting, and mentoring through the method Ihab taught me, I get sharper results in the day-to-day, in every engagement and scope I take on. My clients think differently because I now work differently.
If you are an experienced professional who senses that coaching belongs at the center of your practice and not at its edges, learn from Ihab. The mentorship is real. The transformation is real.
Before working with Ihab, I had the passion for health coaching but not the belief that I could actually do it. He armed me with the methodology and certification, pushed me beyond limits I'd set for myself, and refused to let me settle for 'good enough'. He trusted me enough to send three of his own clients my way to coach. Delivering for them, and seeing them get real results, is what finally made me trust my own capabilities. That shift in confidence changed everything, not just how I coach, but how I show up in my own life.
Coach Ihab has been my mentor through three programs: ICF Level 2, Executive Transcendence Leader Coach, and Advanced Executive Transcendence Leader Coach.
The training prepared me to coach, but I wasn't sure how to land my first executive client. Coach Ihab recognized where I was stuck and introduced me to a senior leader he was working with. That introduction led to my first paid executive coaching engagement.
The training and certifications were outstanding, but it was Coach Ihab's mentorship and genuine investment in my success that turned my learning into real income. That's mentorship that outlasts the program itself.
I had the privilege of to be guided by an exceptional Master in Coaching, Mr. Ihab Badawi who has had a profound impact on both my professional and personal growth. His empathy, ability to listen beyond words, ask powerful questions, and create a safe space for reflection helped me gain clarity, confidence, and a stronger sense of purpose.
Through our journey, I was challenged to step outside my comfort zone, communicate succinctly, and articulate my language in a professional and clear manner. The coaching experience not only enhanced my leadership approach, but also positively influenced how I show up in my day-to-day life-with greater self-awareness, resilience, and intention.
What truly sets Ihab apart is his authenticity, insight, generosity and relentless drive to impact others and help them RISE and break through their limiting beliefs. I am incredibly grateful for Ihab's guidance and would highly recommend him to anyone seeking meaningful and lasting transformation.
Before joining Ihab's Certified Master Trainer program between December 2024 and February 2025, my expertise was confined to internal corporate boundaries. I knew deep down that I had a wealth of content and value to offer the market, but I was stuck in a cycle of hesitation. I didn't know where to start externally, and, frankly, I wrestled with the quiet doubt many seasoned internal professionals face, wondering whether I was perhaps exaggerating my own abilities. I lacked a clear external strategy, a structured approach to building a commercial practice, and, above all, the validation to take my work to the open market. What changed for me through the Certified Master Trainer program was not just mastering advanced delivery, but gaining the practical business-building tools required to construct a viable external practice. Ihab has an elite grasp of how to turn technical capability into a commercial business. Still, his real genius lies in recognizing true talent and backing it up with immense professional trust. He provided the ultimate confirmation of my abilities. When he saw the quality of my delivery during the program. He didn't just offer praise; he handed me an immediate, high-stakes opportunity. He brought me on board via IBG to facilitate a major, multi-location external project centered around executive presence for a massive, tier-one global organization. Delivering on an account of that scale completely shattered my self-doubt and gave me the commercial audacity to realize I belonged at the highest level of external consultancy. The turning point in our partnership came when a client requested a sophisticated Hogan assessment rollout. Even though I was certified, I had never deployed the tool on a live external corporate project. Ihab didn't hesitate; he trusted my expertise completely and handed me the keys to the project. That single opportunity became the ultimate proof of concept. Successfully delivering that engagement gave me the concrete confidence and authority to deploy Hogan assessments for multiple large organizations afterward independently. Today, my professional journey has completely evolved. The Certified Master Trainer program gave me the exact business tools I needed to bridge the gap between internal execution and external market demand. Ihab gave me a platform to grow, unparalleled trust, and the confidence to claim my worth in the market. If you are a senior practitioner sitting on incredible content but feeling stuck behind an internal corporate ceiling, Ihab's mentorship and methodology are exactly what you need to break through.
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My Personal Assurance Of Your Success: The Expertise To 6-Figure Offer Guarantee…
Most programs teach you how to become a coach. Some teach you how to package an offer. Very few take responsibility for whether you actually build a business.
We do.
Every graduate leaves with far more than an internationally recognised certification. You leave with a personalised roadmap, a commercial positioning strategy, and a proven framework to package, launch and monetise your expertise as a Service-Based Entrepreneur.
And if, for any reason, you don't feel we've delivered on our promise to help you turn your expertise into a thriving business, we'll continue working alongside you through our monthly implementation cohorts until you do.
Our goal was never to hand you a certificate. It's to help you build Own Earning Power.
*T&C's apply.
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Don’t HIT 65 And Wonder “What If?”...
My colleague stormed out of that meeting shouting "Where is my equity?" and it changed my life. Every executive asks that question eventually.
The only variable is when.
Some ask it at 48, while there's still time to do something about it. They get on a call, find their pathway, and spend the next decade profiting from something with their name on it. The others ask it at 65, at a retirement lunch someone else organised... Holding a cup of tea while a VP ten years younger gives a speech about their "incredible contribution". And on the drive home, in the quiet, it hits them.
Forty years of expertise. Thousands of problems solved. Hundreds of careers shaped.
All of it left behind in a building they no longer have a keycard for. Their reward for a lifetime of brilliance? A pension, a plaque, and a LinkedIn profile that says "Open to opportunities."
Don't wait until it's too late to do anything about it.
Book your free Expertise-to-Enterprise Strategy Session today. Thirty minutes with me, and you'll walk away knowing your pathway, your positioning, and exactly what your expertise is worth on the open market. The corporate world got 25 years of you at a salary discount. Let's find out what the full price looks like.
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DUE TO THE NATURE OF OUR CALLS, WE CAN ONLY SPEAK TO 4 MORE PEOPLE IN November - IF YOU’RE SEEING THIS, THERE’S STILL SPACE AVAILABLE!
Give Us 30 Minutes To Identify The Critical Steps You Must Take To Transition From Employee To A Service-Based Entrepreneur Before You Leave Corporate
Here’s just a fraction of what you’ll discover in your FREE expertise-to-enterprise strategy session:
Identify the right path of how to translate/package your experience into a successful business (most professionals do - they just can't see it yet)
We'll help you define your niche, offer and positioning strategy based on the expertise you've spent a lifetime building
We'll map out how to build your business alongside your current role, so you transition on your terms instead of waiting for retirement, redundancy or restructuring to force the decision
Walk away with your own Individual Development Plan (valued at $9,000) built from our proprietary assessment that pinpoints whether your expertise is best monetised as a consultant, trainer, coach, mentor or public speaker, and the exact sequence to launch it
Plus, Book Your Session This Month and Walk Away With Three Additional Bonuses (Valued at $9,000):
The 5-Client Enrollment Grant
The system that helps you land your first 5 paying clients once you join the program. On your session, you'll learn exactly how it works and what it unlocks for you. Real clients you build your portfolio around, not demo accounts or case studies.
A Personal Branding Blueprint
The framework and strategies I used to go from successful but ‘incognito’ executive to bestselling author, so you know how to position yourself as the go-to expert in your niche, before you've signed a single client…
The Niche & Positioning Roadmap
Drawn from the expertise you've spent a lifetime building, so you know precisely who to serve, and whether you should charge them $5,000, $20,000 or $50,000, and exactly why…
2,500+ Global Executives Transformed
