Dan Abrams is forming a consulting firm that he hopes will connect a global Rolodex of media experts with businesses that need strategic advice.

Compared with corporate workers who take direction from a boss and receive regular paychecks, consultants lead lives with much less structure and much more risk.

As thousands of students look to get into the schools of their choice, private educational consultants take up where overburdened high school guidance counselors leave off.

The sale is part of a broader split of Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial and government consulting groups.