Best Self
Build a Moat Around Your Career
Build your career moat with rare skill stacks, a visible reputation, wider networks and measurable wins.
Consulting Insight
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.
Consulting Insight
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.
Technique
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.
News
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.
Change Management
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.
Consulting Insight
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.
Technique
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.
News
Winner of the Breakthrough Business Award
Queanbeyan-Palerang Business Awards, 2026 winner of the Breakthrough Business.
Technique
Project Burn-Downs: From Old-School Spreadsheets to AI-Powered Forecasts
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.
Best Self
Should you fake it 'till you make it?
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.
Skill
Proper engagement forecasts provide commercial control while options still exist
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.