Over Promised, Under Delivered, Very Costly and High Pressure
As a client, I joined the 6-month program for Driven Inc. (Suzanne Evans Coaching) last year, and there are pros and cons, though more cons than pros.
Firstly, she is irreverent, rude and caustic. She often spins this as being aggressive for success, but in a coaching setting, it's just not appropriate in any way. It's certainly not conducive to a teaching environment, and uses exceedingly high-pressure tactics to get you to register for her programs. This is how she wins.
The program was $7000 for 6 months, and let me tell you that it is absolutely not worth that and this is why: in her sales pitch, she verbatim says that you'll have "your speech written for you within a week" and I made sure to sLoom creen record the promise of that. It never happens. You're given all the instructions to do it yourself, but at that cost, you'd expect to have more hands-on service, and that's certainly not the case.
The first red flag is the lengthy legal contract you must sign up front. There is no way to get out of the program once you put a deposit down.
Another big item that I didn't like is that much of the recorded trainings are very old, from a time before her company was called Driven Inc. I'd say about 60% of the training videos in the portal are old and the only new content are the recorded monthly webinars with your group.
In a nutshell, you're paying BIG BUCKS for a DIY program. She has a - believe it or not - $20k group where she attests that there's more hands on attention, but that shouldn't take quality away from the $7k group because for a lot of people $7k is a significant financial investment. Doesn't make sense, right?
The positive is the giant Resource Book that gets mailed to you, but even here, there's a lot of editing that needs to be done, lots of repetition, because there's old material combined with new material. This Resource Book is definitely a positive point, though.
It's embarrassing to me that I spent this money on the program.
However, let her business model be a masterclass in how you can get rich off the concept of charging for access, but leaving the work up to the client. She touts that she's made the Inc. 500 for 5 years in a row, and that is because she is Queen of high-pressure sales tactics, not because the program delivers what is promised in the sales pitch.
Do your research before you commit to anything!