Win your next assignment with structure, not luck. This script helps you craft a best-practice consulting approach through guided questions that turn ambiguity into clarity, delivering clear phases, outcomes, deliverables, and tools you can adapt for any engagement.
In a world where AI and templates are swallowing the middle, being vanilla is a fast track to irrelevance. Your instincts, quirks and eccentric Éclat aren’t flaws; they’re what make you, you
Summer reading for those ConsultantCafe articles you missed or want to read again.
Chapter 4: This is the 4th in a series on Santa's digital transformation. See my Investment Logic Map Framework here and lessons for consultants when they develop one with a client
Im so sorry you were made redundant, but here are some tips to get back on your feet again.
A decision-support super-prompt that asks consultants targeted questions to clarify the situation, uncover complications, interpret implications, and produce a clear “What → So What → Now What” advisory package with options, actions, and recommendations.
Chapter 3: I'm going to try to bring consultant tools, templates and techniques to life using Pole Enterprises as my case study. This is the 3rd in a series on Santas Digital Transformation. See my PMO Framework here.
The smartest consultants aren’t the ones who are right the most. They’re the ones who notice when they’re wrong the fastest. Spot these biases fast, before they undo your deliverable
In a profession defined by pace and pressure, former Partner Kim Moeller is building something different — Consultant Café, a space where consultants can learn, reflect, and grow through practical insight and real experience to build meaningful, sustainable careers.
Chapter 2: I'm going to try to bring consultant tools, templates and techniques to life using Pole Enterprises as my case study. This is 2nd in the series on how to do customer journey mapping. The 1st was Mrs Claus letter.
Every café has its menu, and so should every consultant. From flat whites (T&M) to tasting menus (fixed price), pricing models shape how clients experience your value. In this week’s Consultant Café, discover some price model blends that work.
Cost is maths, price is reputation strategy. Get them confused, and you risk cash flow, clients, and credibility
Consulting Insight
My old career advice was simple: go wide before you go deep. But consulting has changed, and so has my view.
Consulting Insight
If your work blends into the background, you’ll be replaced by the next consulting firm promising something shinier.
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.