3 TCAs
already founded
>500
applications
63
active consultants
WHAT IS A STUDENT-RUN CONSULTANCY
Going beyond Academics
The idea of a student-run consultancy is to challenge passionate students beyond their academic curriculum by working on real life consulting projects. Our members are enabled to apply your theoretical knowledge from university to real world situations while gaining practical work experience besides your studies.
Completely self-managed
Each Consulting Academy is independently run and completely managed by students. This gives each and every member the opportunity to take meaningful responsibility to shape the organization’s future. Our members develop skills which go beyond their own field of studies through trainings and the passion shared with other students.
BUSINESS CONSULTING
Companies in return benefit from our creative and innovative ideas and an unbiased approach for every project. By satisfying both our clients as well as our members, we create a unique win-win situation. Each student consultant is compensated for her or his work and at the same time gains valuable and unique work experience.
The Consulting Academy Cape Town
This is the newest member of the family of Consulting Academies founded in 2018. The founding targets the increasing demand in the South African market and Cape Town already accomplished several projects.
The Consulting Academy Nairobi
Founded in 2017, The Consulting Academy Nairobi has more than 20 active members from Kenya’s best universities. Its located in Nairobi, the economic and social hub of whole East Africa.
The Consulting Academy Johannesburg
The first Consulting Academy was founded in South Africa. With its long successful history it is the oldest member of our network. It has a long list of successfully accomplished projects and several of its alumni are now already working for high-profile consultancies.
Academy Consult Munich
With more than 325 sucesfully accomplished projects and more than 100 active consultants, Academy Consult is one of the most successful German student-run consulting firms.
You or your student-club?
Be the next member of TCA-Network and profit from materials, trainings, coaches, international projects and a wunderful international network of other student-run business consultancies and experienced consultants!
Joining TCA-Network
How can I join with my existing student-club?
First of all: of course you can join with an existing student-club! We offer this opportunity to all student-clubs that share the common goals and want to recruit and train student-consultants!
A typical way to become part of TCA-Network can look like this:
The current network
Contact us
The first step is to contact us! Just write as an email and we will reply as soon as possible. We will then organize a call with your, for example via skype!
The first call
In the first call we will introduce our concept to you and provide you with further information. The only thing we ask you to do for this call is to prepare a short presentation with information on your student-club, for example how many members you have, how long you exist, what your aims are, how often you meet, etc.
After this call, we would like you to discuss the information you got with all members of your student-club. If you think that TCA-Network fits to your ideas and your club, we will set up a second call with you to go into more detail, how the process of joining exactly works.
Second call & Coaches
In this call we will provide you with all information needed for you to officially join TCA-Network. We will also introduce a lot of documents to you that might be of help! Most importantly, we will select one or two mentors for you that are highly experienced student-consultants. They will guide you through the process. If wished and needed there might also be a chance that your mentors visit your student-club for some time to easy the process for you!
Joining the network
If all proceeds well you become a member of TCA-Network. You will then have access to a series of documents and trainings. We will also include you in our email list where we send around important information and offers for international projects. Of course, your guides will still be active and can effectively function as an advisory board if you want to! We are currently setting up our own training catalogue to effectively support all student consultants with the necessary skills and trainings to effectively manage their own student-run consultancy and successfully acquire and complete your own projects!
Can I found a Consulting Academy myself?
Yes, you can! This is an intruguing possibility for all student consultants! Up to now only members of student-run consultancies in Germany that are part of the BDSU have founded a TCA, but it is open to everyone!
An exemplary path is desribed below:
Contact us
The first step is to contact us! Just write as an email and we will reply as soon as possible. We will then organize a phone or skype call with you!
The first call
The first call mainly serves to get to know each other. We will present you our TCA-Network and you can present yourself and your ideas. Of course, you can ask any questions you have!
At the end of this call we will set up a second call with you, so that you have time to process all the new information and rethink if you still want to found a student-run consultancy! Of course, we highly encourage you to do it! It is a unique experience and valuable for your future!
Second call
In this call we will provide you with all information needed to see how a founding of a Consulting Academy works. We will also introduce a lot of documents to you that will be of help. If you are still looking for a team, we can help you out with our contacts and support you in finding a successful team! At this point we will also share a lot of documents with your that will be of help and also support you in setting up a timeline and milestones for the adventure!
Through the founding of three student-run business consultancies we now have a lot of experience that we love to share with you.
Founding
You go through the founding process together with your team! Up to now, all teams in Kenya and South Africa stayed for about three months in the respective country and went through the complete process: recruiting, training, internal work and projects. If you want to, we can also support you during this time with coaching calls so that you can check your experiences with the experiences we gained in the three founding already accoplished.
During this time, you will have full access to all our created documents, including templates for recruiting, trainings, contracts, NDAs, logos, business cards, social media story etc. We really have everything that you need but most teams will decide to change some things and improve the documents!
What are the benefits
Branding
Use our logo and our name as a reference for highest quality, especially if you are working with international clients. Being present now internationally on two continents with three TCAs increases credibility for clients!
Materials
You do not have to create all materials by yourself. We can provide you with client acquisition, presentation, design, logo, branding, recruiting documents. You can even get a facebook story, if you want to!
Coaching & Network
You need advise via founding or for growing your organization to a complete student-run business consultancy? In our network you will find people already having experienced the same willing to share their experience!
International Projects
As a long term goal, each TCA shall be able to conduct international projects with international companies and in international teams. Where else can you get this experience while you are still a student?