Consulting Insight
Costing vs Pricing: Knowing Your Floor and Setting Your Ceiling
Cost is maths, price is reputation strategy. Get them confused, and you risk cash flow, clients, and credibility
Consulting Insight
Specialist or Generalist? (Spoiler: The Market Doesn’t Care)
My old career advice was simple: go wide before you go deep. But consulting has changed, and so has my view.
Consulting Insight
My Delivery Playbook to Turn Messy Engagements into Repeatable Wins
If your work blends into the background, you’ll be replaced by the next consulting firm promising something shinier.
Consulting Insight
Debunking the Most Common Myths About Consulting
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
The Anatomy of a Change Management Dashboard: Cutting Through the Illusion
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
ConsultantCafe.com Tech Stack: What Keeps It Brewing Smoothly
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
Turn Messy Thinking into Clear Wins, like a Jedi Mind Trick
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
The Quiet Power of Community: The Most Underrated C in Consulting
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
So, You Found Yourself on the Bench
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
I didn’t see this coming
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
Communications Plans
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
Consulting rules of thumb that no one tells you. Kim shares his hard-earned lessons.