If you are an established professional advisor, such as an accountant, HR consultant, life coach or marketing consultant, you are ideally placed to add business coaching and consultancy to your service mix. You already have a client base of business owners who trust you and listen to your advice.  These people already talk to you about some of their problems, and you can see some problems that they are not aware of or don't talk about.  You already have the skills of questioning and listening that are at the heart of any form of coaching. Business owners are seeking more advice in these challenging times and while this offers you an opportunity to step up and provide that advice it also presents a risk to your existing relationship if your clients start to bring in other advisors.  Pre-empting that by starting to broaden out the advice you give to clients is pushing at an open door - and means your clients doenot have to take a risk with someone new. Of course, there are challenges