About:

Kelly Trach is a business consultant, published author of P.S. You’re A Genius (BenBella Books, Nov 2021), and an entrepreneur for almost a decade. She is the person you call when you have an idea and want to turn it into a business.

She’s launched 4 ventures of her own and built 50+ companies with clients.

Kelly has a bachelor of commerce honors degree from the University of British Columbia where she studied on scholarship. Kelly previously worked at Tesla Motors, studied at Sciences Po in Paris France, and was accepted in a pre-accelerator program taught by a billionaire venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. After her first three tech start-ups failed in San Francisco, Kelly built a business centered around her genius. It worked. Generating traction by doing work that came most naturally to her made her rethink her approach to finding meaningful work.

Now she teaches others how to find their genius and turn that into a business, career, or side hustle. She's spoken at places like Uber and NASDAQ, plus her podcast had 100,000+ downloads. Her work has been featured in RBC’s The Intelligent Investor and mindbodygreen.

Background:

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Experience:

• 4x entrepreneur with real-world, hands-on experience from building 3 tech startups in Silicon Valley.

• Launched 50+ companies with private clients by helping them go from idea to first customer to full-time business owner. As a consultant, I translate vague visions into concrete business models, services, and products. Then, give strategic advice on how to launch, market, brand, and sell it.

• Proven track record of generating client results: clients have out-earned their corporate salaries by the end of their first year in business, scored celebrity clients themselves, earned 3-4x more than their corporate job, and built multi-million dollar companies.

• Worked for Tesla Motors as a Product Specialist and learned everything about sales and exceptional service.

• Created 3 courses which produced multiple 6-figures in sales. (Your Best Life™, Your Conscious Empire™ + Your Money Mindset™). Designed all the curriculum, created my own videos + worksheets, and successfully taught 100+ global students who achieved results like quitting full-time jobs, booking their first paid client with 48 hours of launching, and building 6 + 7-figure companies.

• Hosted and produced The Kelly Trach Show Podcast for 7+ years, received 100+ 5-star reviews, 100k+ downloads, and did 175+ episodes.

• Now hired by high-profile clients for my consulting.

Education:

• Bachelor of Commerce, Honors Degree from the UBC Sauder School of Business, one of Canada's most competitive and selective business schools with only a 6% acceptance rate. I specialized in marketing and graduated on the dean’s list honor roll.

• UBC President’s Entrance Scholar ($80,000) and won an additional $33,000 in scholarships.

• Won 19 awards between college and my career. I’ve been celebrated by The Royal Bank of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Women and won a local Top 30 Under 30.

• I was a full scholarship recipient ($12,000) for Draper University, a pre-accelerator program in Silicon Valley for early-stage entrepreneurs taught by billionaire venture capitalist, Tim Draper and mentors from Stanford, SingularityU, Google, and various VC firms.

• Studied media and communications in Paris, France at Sciences Po, one of the most prestigious European schools. I still use these lessons to this day on how to answer a press Q+A!

Publications + Speaking:

• Published author of P.S. You’re A Genius. (BenBella Books, Nov 2021). Fun fact: I got over 200+ rejection letters from literary agents, but I did score a publishing deal and one of the top 5 business-book agents. Now, I’ve got 1000+ happy readers from all over the world. P.S. You're A Genius is sold across all North American retailers (Amazon, Indigo, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Target), and the audiobook, narrated by me, is on Audible.

• I’ve spoken at Uber and The NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center.

• My work has been featured in publications like The Intelligent Investor by The Royal Bank of Canada, and MindBodyGreen.

How did you start?

After graduating from UBC, I turned down my job offers and moved to San Francisco. I was accepted into a prestigious Silicon Valley pre-accelerator program taught by a billionaire VC and attempted to build 3 tech start-ups. They all failed. During a low point of my third start-up, when my usual tactics of hustling, grinding, and doubling down weren’t working, this idea hit me: “What if you just did what you were good at?”

I launched a blog in 2016, built a website, started a podcast, and began making courses. Someone approached me to help them start a business. At that point, they watched me start four ventures. I actually politely declined because I didn’t think I could do it. Yet, they persisted. I agreed to do it once — as a favor. (We all know where this story goes).

“The Genius Framework” was something I developed for my consulting clients simply as a way for me to understand them. I’d ask certain questions to find their gifts and, in turn, see how their unique genius could be translated into a business model. I was uniquely gifted at helping people start businesses and asking ultra-specific questions to pull out their talents.

As a result, my clients scored customers within 48 hours of launching, handed in resignation letters at their 9-5’s within 6 weeks, booked speaking gigs at Google within 1 month of being open for business, and out-earned their corporate salaries by the end of their first year. Now, each client’s business was entirely different. Everyone had different niches, personalities, and locations, from Singapore to Australia to London. Yet there was one common denominator to their success: they were doing their genius.

That’s when I knew I was on to something special. I pitched for a TED talk in 2019 on the topic of “Finding Your Genius” and got rejected. I pivoted and tried for a book deal instead. P.S. You’re a Genius was published in 2021.

I’m coming up on a decade of being an entrepreneur and can guide you as a trusted consultant. I’ll help take your idea and turn it nto businesses.

I’ll sit down with you and listen to your vision (it’s okay if it’s vague). Then, I look for your genius, the work only you can do in the world. Next, I take those two things and we start brainstorming how we can translate that into a concrete business model. Meaning: services and products, pricing strategy, marketing and branding, target market, and a concrete launch strategy.

I’m truly an expert at going from zero to 1. Meaning, idea to first sale. Building things from scratch is truly my (gf) bread and (v) butter.

Now, I am grateful to have truly remarkable clients all over the world, a book deal, and even high-profile clients who’ve hired me to consult on new launches or how to market and sell something.