Consulting Insight
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.
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One year, one award, 50+ articles and countless coffees. A look back at how ConsultantCafe grew into something bigger.
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.
Best Self
Build your career moat with rare skill stacks, a visible reputation, wider networks and measurable wins.
Consulting Insight
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.
Consulting Insight
There is no write or wrong when it comes to contracting or consulting. It just means trying to notice the opportunity cost.
Technique
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enjoy these 44 pages of my Change Playbook. I have tried to capture everything I have learnt over the years about change management.
Unlock your real strengths, master your craft, and build the consulting career you are proud of, without burning out or selling out.
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.
Enjoy these 44 pages of my Change Playbook. I have tried to capture everything I have learnt over the years about change management.
Consulting is messy. Another 4 timeless laws help you spot patterns early, manage the chaos, and steer complex work toward outcomes that actually stick.
Business development is a long game of building trust and earning the right to ask for the work when the timing is right.
Queanbeyan-Palerang Business Awards, 2026 winner of the Breakthrough Business.
I wrote the original article anchored in the old-school way of tracking project burn-downs. The fundamentals still hold, but AI now gives us a not-so-old-school way to keep forecasts current....and it will blow your mind.
Fake it 'till you make is like fabricating it till you fluke it. Feel your way forward instead. Six practical moves when label on the tin is bigger than the tin itself.
Project financial forecasting turns budget variance into a management advantage. Seeing under or overspends early lets you adjust scope, pace, and resources while options still exist. It is how smart teams stay in control and finish with fewer surprises....and maybe even increase fees.
The latest Ai headlines for consulting firms suggest the market is moving beyond novelty and into a harder phase where agentic capability, cyber risk, and enterprise control matter more than demo magic.
The Most Overlooked Skill in Consulting Starts Before the Work Does, with a a structured approach.
If consulting is ambigous and messy, inside a single week, how do you stay steady enough to do good work and enjoy it?
Ever wonder why some work gives you momentum, some meetings stay with you for days, and some client moments make you feel genuinely powerful? These three ChatGPT scripts help you decode the pattern and use it to grow as a consultant.