Become a Vegan Hospitality Consultant
Ready to see more vegan dining options in your community?
Ready to have a step by step system to turn your passion into a career path?
Ready to create a positive impact on the world and make income doing what you love?
Join our next training program to gain the skills, solutions, and support you need to create a vegan world.
We are currently accepting applications for our next cohort, which begins in January, 2027.
The Vegan Hospitality Consultant Training is the first professional training of its kind: the complete method for helping restaurants, hotels, and food service businesses put plant-based food on their menus and keep it there.
Over 11 modules, 11 live calls, and 11 weeks, you learn the High Impact Hospitality Consulting Method exactly as we use it with clients: how to find the venues in your community that are ready, how to walk into that first meeting, and how to carry a venue from menu evaluation all the way to a launched menu their team is proud to serve.
Recorded lessons posted weekly are yours to watch on your own schedule. Every Sunday, a live call with Vegan Hospitality’s Co-Founders Meredith Marin or Hayley Cooper turns the lesson into your next action step as you work through your market, your goals, your outreach, and your first client.
What happens after week 11. You join the Vegan Hospitality consultant community — a global, active professional network of consultants doing this work in their own cities. Certification is earned by taking action, not awarded on course completion, although you’ll get a certificate of completion upon graduation! You'll work toward your vegan hospitality-related goals for a minimum of three months and demonstrate real progress before you're reviewed for certification as a Vegan Hospitality Consultant.
What you'll learn
Foundations — the mission, the market, and the entrepreneur's mindset this work asks of you
Your Market & Your Offer — your ideal client, everything you can deliver, how to charge, and the business basics
Outreach & the Strategy Session — real conversations with venue owners, market research, and the meeting that turns interest into a project
Public Speaking & Community Presence — your signature talk, and how a room becomes a client list
The Menu Evaluation — your first deliverable, start to finish
Menu Design & Recipe Development — on-theme dishes, menu engineering, and developing the recipes
Ingredient Sourcing & Chef Education — solving the supply side, even in a market with little available
Kitchen Training & Finalizing the Menu — how to facilitate a culinary training and guide your client to make menu decisions
Service Training — how to train front-of-house staff to sell the new menu
Social Media as a Vegan Consultant — LinkedIn and Instagram: visibility that brings clients to you
Your First Case Study & Certification — documenting results, following up with clients, earning your certification, and joining the consultant network
Who it's for
People with a passion for and commitment to vegan food and lifestyle, strong interpersonal skills, and the drive to change what their community can eat. No hospitality degree required.
Tuition is 1,497 USD · interest-free monthly payment plans are available. Limited scholarships are available for applicants in neglected regions, please indicate need directly on your application.
Applications are open for the next cohort.