Educational design and business strategy for Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Small Businesses.
Why we are here

You have worked hard to gain trust with clients, create a signature process or become known in your field.

We help you expand that knowledge and expertise through educational offerings and the business systems to support it.

I deeply believe that each and every one of us has something to teach and that education has the power to change the world. For nearly twenty years I've been designing learning experiences. On guided trips, in the classroom and through online businesses.

Now I help professionals, small businesses and organizations do the same: translate what they know into intentionally designed courses, workshops, programs, and retreats WITH the business strategy and systems to support them.

You are already making a difference in the world, now we get to expand your reach.
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Education Consulting and Business Strategy

Strategy and services for education-based businesses

Business & Offering Strategy Call
A focused hour, exactly where you need it. We spend 60 minutes on the one thing that's stuck  (offer clarity, positioning, a decision you can't quite make) and you walk away with a detailed action plan and two weeks inside the Mapphouse Portal to keep the thread going.
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VIP Day: Offering Blueprint Intensive
A full 1:1 day together starting with an in-depth interview, then market research, and a working session. You walk away with a 30-day plan and 30 days of support within your custom Mapphouse portal. For the founder ready to DIY it, with focused support to get unstuck and launched.
Book a 20 min call to see if we are a good fit.
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Custom Offering Build
Weekly 1:1 meetings, a big-picture timeline with your goals mapped out, and design, build, and launch support the whole way through — for courses, workshops, retreats, and live events — plus a custom Mapphouse client portal for communication and project implementation. For the founder with a vision who needs execution support to make it real.
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Custom Business Tech Build & Support
Hands-on execution to hand off the tech side of your business — web design, app development, AI implementation, and more — so you can focus on the parts that fill your cup. Billed hourly per project scope, with weekly updates and a custom Mapphouse client portal.
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Business Ecosystem Partnerships
A long-term partnership for founders building with intention. Pairing big-picture vision with hands-on, ongoing support across your full business ecosystem, from foundational clarity to the systems that carry it. Packages start at $1,500/mo, shaped around what you actually need.
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Our signature offering

Custom built educational offerings for today's landscape

In Person
Retreats & Live Events
Some of the most powerful learning happens in a room. In-person retreats give your clients a chance to be fully present with you, experience how you work firsthand, and leave genuinely changed.
Online
Signature Courses
A well-designed signature course is the culmination of your expertise. Built from the ground up around your student and the transformation you are promising. This takes time. It is worth every hour.
Online or Live
Workshops, webinars, trainings
Students stay when they feel supported. Our framework brings warmth, clarity, and intentional pacing to every live or recorded learning experience so people can actually finish what they started.
Business Systems
Educational Ecosystems
Building an education-based business is vastly different than any other business. We make sure that every touch point, every aspect and every element of your business is designed for you, your ideal client and for the impact you want to create.
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The Mapphouse Method

The world needs your expertise.

We work with clients on a custom basis, using the MAPP Method to design offerings and business systems that are actually aligned to your expertise, your ideal client, and your stage of business. We start with Mindset & Message your story, your why, the expertise only you carry. From there, we move into Audience & Market Research, making sure what you build is shaped around who it's genuinely for. Then comes Progression & Transformation the backward-designed path from where your people are now to where you're taking them. And finally, Product Build the course, the program, the retreat, whatever form your expertise is meant to take.

We look at the whole picture, not just one piece. Message, audience, transformation, and build all have to align — and the systems that support them have to be built around you, the CEO, not borrowed from someone else's blueprint. When all four come together, you stop guessing. You start building something that lasts.

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MAPP method
Mindset & Message
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Audience & Market Research
Progression & Transformation
Product build
Meet Kim

This work is not just a culmination of everything I have done. It is a calling and a true alignment of what lights me up.

I want you to have a business that reflects who you are and grows alongside you through different seasons of your life. I want you to create offerings that feel true to your work and the people you are meant to serve. I want you to wake up on a Monday morning genuinely excited about what you are doing and how it is running.

But let's be honest, building something real is not easy. It can be exhilarating and isolating and hard, all at once. Especially for those of us who are mission-driven and trying to align our work with our calling. It is my hope that Mapphouse becomes a resource for you, a place to find the tools, the thinking, and the support you need, wherever you are in the build.

Because when we start with you and your why, and build from there, we can create something that is actually sustainable. Something that fits your life. Something you are proud of.

For me, this business started in the blurry hours of early motherhood. I knew with every part of me that this was the work I needed to create. So I set the alarm, showed up in the margins, and built it slowly and on purpose.

And day one of marketing, I met my first client.

‍When your business is aligned to who you are and what your client needs, it becomes an easy yes.

Cheers, Kim

Our Story
Kind Words

From previous clients

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Kim took our vision and exceeded our expectations. She tackled deadlines with grace and brought us behind the curtain to understand the process, empowering us for the future.
Jenny Schon
Custom Build Client
You are a gift, and I mean that – you're not making me feel belittled or ashamed that I'm so ambitious in my vision while also being quite unclear... your gift at pulling the thread of connection and continuity in what I express and creating order.
Aubrey Thorne
Ecosystem Partnership Client
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Personalized Offering Tool

Find the offering that is right for you (and your clients).

I'll be the first person to tell you that not everyone should build an online course (despite what you see online). For some business owners, in-person workshops are best. For others, retreats — and yes, for some, online courses are a wonderful option. It all depends on you (the founder), your expertise, and your ideal clients. Answer a few honest questions in the free Offering Tool and walk away with a personalized starting point.
Find the offering you should build
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