EXPERT NETWORK
Your Experience Has Value. Let’s Put It to Work.
Straife’s expert network brings together former intelligence professionals, diplomats, law enforcement leaders, military officers, industry executives, and Big 4 alumni to deliver advisory engagements that no individual consultant can land alone. Join a network that amplifies your reach, handles the business side, and lets you focus on what you do best.
WHY JOIN
What Straife Offers You
Monetize Your Experience
You've spent decades building expertise that commands premium rates. As a Straife expert, your experience is deployed on high-value advisory engagements — government mandates, cross-border M&A, sanctions compliance, AI transformation — that individual consultants rarely access on their own.
Competitive Compensation
Straife experts earn a competitive day rate on every engagement, plus profit share on the work they deliver. Introduce a client opportunity outside your area of expertise, and earn a commission when another Straife expert closes the deal. Your network becomes a revenue stream.
Marketing & Promotion
Straife invests in your professional brand. Your bio is featured on straife.com, you're positioned as a Straife expert at industry conferences and speaking engagements, and our PR team works to place you as a thought leader in your domain — amplifying your visibility far beyond what any individual consultant can achieve.
Full Back-Office Support
Focus on the work, not the paperwork. Straife handles invoicing, payment collection, legal, contracts, and insurance/liability coverage. You deliver the expertise — we handle everything else.
Client Acquisition & Sales
You don't have to find the clients. Straife's business development team sources engagements, manages the sales process, and matches you with opportunities that fit your expertise. No cold outreach, no proposals, no chasing payments.
The Power of a Team
As an independent consultant, your scope is limited to what you can deliver alone. As a Straife expert, you're backed by a global team — including full-time Directors and Managing Directors who lead engagements, coordinate delivery, and carry the institutional weight that clients expect from a firm of this caliber. You bring the expertise; we bring everything else.
HOW IT WORKS
A Partnership, Not an Employer
Straife’s expert network is non-exclusive. You maintain your independence, your other client relationships, and your own practice. Straife adds to your business — it doesn’t replace it.
Apply
Submit your background and areas of expertise through the form below. Our team reviews every application personally.
Onboarding
If there's a fit, we'll walk you through the network, introduce you to the team, and discuss the types of engagements where your expertise is most valuable.
Engagement Matching
When a client engagement matches your expertise, we bring you in. You're briefed by a Straife Director or Managing Director, supported by junior research staff, and backed by the full institutional resources of the firm.
Deliver & Earn
You deliver the work. We handle invoicing, collection, and payment. You earn your day rate plus profit share — and commissions on any deals you introduce.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Experienced Professionals Who Want More From Their Expertise
Straife recruits experts with 10+ years of experience in fields where deep knowledge and operational credibility are the difference between advice that sits on a shelf and advice that changes outcomes.
If you’ve built a career solving complex problems in government, defense, finance, energy, or technology — and you want to keep doing meaningful work on your own terms — we want to hear from you.
OUR NETWORK
A Team Like No Other
35+
Experts in Our Network
5
Offices on 4 Continents
15+
Countries of Operation
“Straife’s network gives me access to engagements and clients that I could never reach as an individual consultant. The team handles everything I don’t want to deal with — billing, legal, insurance — and I focus on the work.”
JOIN OUR NETWORK
Apply to Become a Straife Expert
Tell us about your background and areas of expertise. Our team reviews every application personally and will be in touch if there’s a potential fit.