If clients are capping day rates, stop selling days

If clients are capping day rates, stop selling days. Learn how fixed-price services can help consultants build more valuable, scalable businesses....including an LLM script to help you get started.

Whats Brewing after a year

One year, one award, 50+ articles and countless coffees. A look back at how ConsultantCafe grew into something bigger.

Radical transparency, ethics and integrity can't be a competitive edge. They're the price of entry for every firm, every consultant, every day.

Notes from our open CaféShot: two dozen consultants agreed that radical transparency, ethics and integrity aren't a competitive edge. They're the price of entry.

Build a Moat Around Your Career

Build your career moat with rare skill stacks, a visible reputation, wider networks and measurable wins.

Every Facilitated Session ever

A tongue-in-cheek sketch of 29 personas who show up to a facilitated session, and the serious truth about meeting each of them where they actually are.

Are you contracting or consulting?

There is no write or wrong when it comes to contracting or consulting. It just means trying to notice the opportunity cost.

The ConsultantCafe underground map with 80+ methods, frameworks and the like

Every consultant has a method drawer. Mine became a London Tube map with 89 stations across several lines in one slightly nerdy ride. Mind the methodology gap.

Its time to start the ethical consulting movement

This is an open invitation for anyone to join a ConsultantCafe Cafe Shot Master Class on ethics in consulting. Subscribe to the free mailing list, and you will get an invite.

My Change Management Playbook subscribers can download now

Enjoy these 44 pages of my Change Playbook. I have tried to capture everything I have learnt over the years about change management.

4 more Laws Consultants should know how to deal with

Consulting is messy. Another 4 timeless laws help you spot patterns early, manage the chaos, and steer complex work toward outcomes that actually stick.

So you have been asked to do business development!

Business development is a long game of building trust and earning the right to ask for the work when the timing is right.

Winner of the Breakthrough Business Award

Queanbeyan-Palerang Business Awards, 2026 winner of the Breakthrough Business.