Sr. Consultant

Business Diagnostic Consultant

KBDS Practice  |  Contract or Project Engagement  |  Senior Level

TC Group (TCG) is a business diagnostics and advisory firm founded in 1993. We do one thing: find the primary constraint inside a client's business and build a sequenced execution plan to remove it. Our methodology is the Khan Business Diagnostic System (KBDS), a structured diagnostic framework with two tracks, Ops Diagnosis and Deal Diagnosis.

We do not sell motivation. We do not sell reports. We sell measurable change.

Our clients are business owners with decision authority who have already hired consultants, received recommendations, and watched nothing change. They come to us because the gap is not information; it is execution, and that requires identifying the actual constraint, which is frequently the owner themselves.

TCG is a small, senior, and deliberate operation. There is no bureaucracy here, no practice area politics, and no billable-hour theater. What there is: hard diagnostic work, direct client access, and the expectation that you bring judgment, not just credentials.

 The Role

 We are looking for a consultant who is smarter than us in specific ways that matter: deeper pattern recognition across business systems, sharper diagnostic instinct, and more rigorous execution discipline. Title and pedigree are not the criteria. The ability to find what is actually broken, and to tell the owner the truth about it, is.

This role is not a stepping stone. It is not a platform for building a personal brand on TCG's client relationships. It is diagnostic work, done at a high level, for clients who have already run out of patience with consultants who diagnosed nothing.

You will work directly alongside TCG's founder on active engagements. You will participate in building and refining the KBDS methodology itself. This is a ground-floor role in a firm that has operated by referral for 30 years and is now scaling its diagnostic capacity deliberately.

•      Conduct structured business diagnostics using the KBDS framework across operations and deal tracks

•      Identify primary constraints, map root causes, and build sequenced 90-day execution plans

•      Present findings directly to owners and leadership with precision and without hedging

•      Hold clients accountable to agreed execution commitments through structured cadence

•      Contribute to the documentation and systematization of KBDS methodology for scale

•      Participate in refining diagnostic instruments, scorecard structures, and constraint maps

•      Flag logic breaks and failure modes in proposed solutions before they reach the client

Requirements

Non-Negotiable

•      Diagnostic before prescriptive: you look for what is true before you decide what to fix

•      Comfortable telling a business owner they are the constraint in their own business

•      Track record of implementation results, not just recommendation decks

•      No tolerance for status theater, opinion-driven meetings, or metrics without accountability

•      Intellectual honesty that holds under client pressure; you do not soften findings to protect the engagement

Strongly Preferred

•      10 or more years of direct advisory or operational experience inside business systems

•      Experience diagnosing and resolving decision-rights failures, execution breakdowns, and owner-dependency patterns

•      Familiarity with constraint-based thinking (Theory of Constraints, systems thinking, or equivalent applied experience)

•      Ability to build and read operating scorecards; you know the difference between a metric and a signal

•      Experience in deal structure, due diligence, or operational assessment on transactions is a distinct advantage

This is not a fit if you are looking for:

-      A large team, a defined career ladder, or a structured origination pipeline

-      An opportunity to build visibility or a personal brand through client relationships developed here

-      A role where findings are softened to keep clients comfortable

-      A platform for delivering frameworks you already own rather than learning what each client actually needs

Ego is not an asset here. The client does not need to be impressed. They need to be fixed.

Benefits

Engagement Structure

Initial engagements are structured as project-based or contract arrangements aligned to active KBDS diagnostic work. Ongoing advisory relationships and expanded scope are available for those who demonstrate diagnostic judgment and client results. Compensation is commensurate with contribution and client outcomes, not hours logged.