Consulting Insight
Consulting looks glamorous from the outside—big clients, strategy decks, and corner offices. But beneath the polish lies a tougher, truer story. This article busts the biggest consulting myths to reveal what the craft is really about: grit, growth, and solving problems that matter.
Project Management
Change dashboards must tell the truth, support decisions, and reflect the human reality of change, not just make things look tidy. This article serves up the special brew for building a change management dashboard that gives executives the clarity they need to lead with confidence.
Tool
A peek behind the scenes at ConsultantCafe.com, my tools, struggles, and progress as I build rhythm, share workflows, and grow a community for consultants.
Technique
MECE is the secret weapon consultants use to turn messy, conflicting data into clarity. With simple, structured buckets, you’ll eliminate confusion, surface insights, and deliver solutions that help clients see the path forward
Best Self
Community is the most overlooked C in 4 Cs of Consulting—The one that rarely shouts for attention, but quietly sustains us in ways we don’t always see. This is a call to act: Consultants using their resources and craft to make a real-world difference.
Consulting Insight
The bench isn’t career purgatory, it’s consulting’s most honest mirror—and your biggest accelerator if you use it right. Off the field is where you sharpen skills, build relationships, and create IP. Play offence across the 4 Cs—Consultant, Clients, Colleagues, Community—and you’ll be first pick.
News
Last month, I launched ConsultantCafe, unsure if it would resonate. The response has been humbling. It seems there’s an appetite for learning, tools, & connection in consulting. Thank you for being part of this journey.
Consulting Insight
Done well, comms is a strategic tool that drives understanding, reduces resistance, and builds momentum. This article shows how to move your plan from nice-to-have to an essential consulting craft.
Consulting Insight
Consulting rules of thumb that no one tells you. Kim shares his hard-earned lessons.
Best Self
Crack the code of consulting. Let one of the 4Cs of Consulting dominate, and you risk burnout, boredom, or becoming that consultant everyone avoids. Nurture them all, even if it is hard, and your career will flourish.
Consulting Insight
AI is changing consulting. But change is what consulting is built on. Your consulting career is not about avoiding disruption. It is about mastering it. In the AI era, that is your biggest opportunity yet.
Best Self
Remember, ChatGPT is a language model. It does not “know” you. You don’t have to accept every insight it produces. The value comes from being honest in your answers and taking the time to reflect on them.
