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Sam Ovens built one of the most successful consulting education businesses of the last decade.

It works, but only for the person running it.

This video breaks down the structural problem inside certification-first consulting models: why they scale revenue faster than results, why credibility gets borrowed before it’s earned, and why markets eventually stop trusting certifications altogether.

This isn’t a critique of Sam as a person.
It’s an analysis of incentive alignment.

When consultants are certified faster than they can develop real capability, the system creates short-term winners and long-term distrust.

Certification grants permission to enter the market.
Competence is what keeps you there.

Most people confuse the two.

Certification scales faster than competence.
Markets always notice.

0:00 – Certification before capability
0:33 – Borrowed credibility explained
1:15 – Selling before delivering
1:41 – Why speed breaks the model
2:14 – Borrowed credibility always comes due
2:48 – Why clients churn
3:23 – Frameworks aren’t experience
3:58 – Why scripts fail without context
4:30 – When the market learns the pattern
5:01 – Certification stops signaling quality
5:28 – Scale degrades trust
6:03 – Misaligned incentives
6:33 – Why brands decay at scale
7:00 – Speed selects the wrong students
7:34 – What certification actually gives you
8:00 – Permission vs competence
8:35 – Why frameworks stop working
9:02 – What the market has already learned