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Business
Consultancy for creator-led businesses
Turn attention into commercial success
People already watch you, save what you create and buy what you recommend. The income is real but only exists while you perform.
I help you create sustainable commercial success from the audience you’ve already built.
The 2-minute check
If you paused posting, what would keep paying you?
A few quick questions. See where your opportunity is, and the first moves to make.
What I help with
Spotting the opportunity
What your work could become, read from your human design, your strengths, and what people already come to you for.
Finding the buyer
Who pays isn't always your audience. Sometimes it's advertisers reaching them, through a resource your list loves.
Testing it on your audience
Small experiments to learn what people will actually pay for, before you build it.
Customer connection
The habit most businesses drop: constantly talking to your customers and building around what they actually need. It's the product and UX designer in me.
Systems and operations
Cutting the repetitive work and building the systems and tech that run without you.
Building the right team
When to hire, who, and what I or technology can handle instead.
Funding, or not
Whether to raise money or not, and the plan either way.
Ownership and control
Structuring the business so you keep control of what you build.
The human side
Business is emotional. Protecting your mindset and energy so building it doesn't cost you yourself.
Brand and values
Millennial and Gen Z audiences buy the values behind the business, not just the product. I pull yours out of your own personality and shape the business around them.
Marketing with intent
Making your content and marketing pull toward the business, not just the feed.
Pricing
Prices in USD.
Get a 50% refund on your first session if you don’t get value, no questions asked.
Valerie E. Oyiki
I’m a founder, builder and designer with more than 10 years building and breaking businesses. I grew Black Girls in Tech from 0 to 30,000+ and made it commercial. After a corporate career, I founded Koala For Work. I know how to make the behind the scenes work, not just look like it does, to leverage the attention that supercharges it.
- Founder & CEO of Koala For Work, a bootstrapped and grant-funded tech startup
- Co-founder & COO of Black Girls in Tech, 0 to 30,000+
- Partnerships with JPMorgan Chase, Selfridges & Meta
- Studied Entrepreneurship at business school, with the practice and lived experience to match
- Six years studying and experimenting with human design
FAQs
You send me your problem ahead of time, and I come in having done the thinking and the deep research. On the call I probe you, help you land on the decisions, and turn them into an action plan you go and execute. Your first session also maps the shape of work I see for you, drawn from your human design chart in the questionnaire.
That's often the best place to start. I help you work out what your business could actually be, and test it with your audience, before you build anything. You don't need it figured out first.
A single session is one problem, solved: I work it through with you, you leave with a plan, and each one stands alone, so nothing is kept afterwards. As a 6 or 12-session client you're ongoing, so you get a client portal where I keep your context and everything built along the way, so nothing starts from scratch.
No. Mindset matters, because business is human, but this isn't coaching. I work on the real decisions with you: the opportunity, the systems, the numbers, and the calls a founder has to make.
You and your team run the business as normal. I'm there to assist with the decisions you make as a leader: priorities, hiring, strategy, the calls that lead to progress. Where you need hands, I can bring in experts from my network.
I'll tell you straight, I won't bluff. You're investing in my thinking, and part of that is researching and asking my own mentors. Problem solving comes down to curiosity, and there's no one more curious than me.
50 minutes. Because I agree the agenda with you beforehand, all of it goes on your business.
Yes, sessions happen online, wherever you're based.
Because every session is prepared for. Once your inquiry is accepted, you'll get a questionnaire all about your business and a payment link, and I'll send an agenda at least two days ahead of your session, so you know exactly how it'll be spent. If your first session doesn't deliver, you get 50% of it back, no questions asked, whether you booked one session or a package.
You’ve got the attention. Let’s build the business.
Book a session and bring me the first problem to solve.