Consulting Success Podcast

Having a third-party vision of your business can sometimes be helpful. Having somebody that would take a step back and take a look at your company to see if you have things figured can be a way to know the holes in your business plan. That is the beauty of consulting. Former CEO of Picture Tel, Lew Jaffe, shares how consulting helped his previous company to grow. A philanthropist, professor, and e...

Excellent customer service is vital for business growth as cliché as it may sound. Being one of the most important elements in sales and marketing, it needs deep focus and expertise, even in the consulting arena. Ron Kaufman, ranked as the number one customer service guru in the world by Global Gurus, knows the drill. As he dives into his journey from managing Frisbee festivals to exploring and wi...

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or simply running a small team, having an entrepreneurial mindset is so important. Author, speaker, and consultant Rita McGrath says constantly looking at where your next opportunities are coming from and making sure you’re up to date and fresh is what the entrepreneurial mindset is all about, and it all begins with changing the nature of com...

Accountability expert, keynote speaker, and author Samuel Silverstein aims to continually cultivate accountability in diverse organizational cultures. When he left the corporate world and sold his business, he started to hasten skills in writing, speaking, and consulting. His consultancy field was mainly driven by his expertise in speaking in front of a variety of people and various organizations....

Sometimes, it is exactly the comfort that keeps us from pursuing what we really want. Bill Coletti, founder of the crisis communications and reputation management firm called Kith Consulting, has stepped out of the comfort offered in working for an established organization as a consultant to starting and running his own consulting business. When the stakes are high, he managed to push through and...

We all want to elevate our brand and get to that next level of success. Anthony Iannarino, coach, consultant, and entrepreneur, believes that everyone has greater potential to make a difference. Over the last few years, Anthony's brand has grown significantly. He shares how you can sell more and also take your brand to the next level by identifying what you are capable of and having that abundance...

Nothing connects people with brands like stories do. Master storyteller and media brand strategist, Robin Fisher Roffer takes us into the power of storytelling to dominate your industry. Going into the talk of being able to specialize, she shows the difference between being a go-to business and one who is in the midst of multiple competitions. She talks about storytelling and where brand building...

Procurement professionals struggle reputationally sometimes with a lot of folks in the business bypassing them, trying to avoid procurement. Philip Ideson helps procurement professionals become a little bit more impactful and think about how to go beyond the process so they can bring value to their organizations. Philip owns CatalystCo and hosts a podcast called The Art of Procurement where he hel...

When you get a good client and it's a big engagement which is going to go on for a while, what happens is that your ability to deliver as well as run the business starts to eat away at you. At some point, you realize that you're going to have to include other people in the game. Otherwise, you're going to kill yourself. The interview process then starts and you have figure out who you're going hir...

“My one job here is to create enough value. Hopefully, they’ll ask me to stick around and do some more work.” That was the statement conversation expert Rob Kendall made about during the early days of his career. Rob’s biggest challenge was the way he communicated with people. For his own self-development, he started to do some work that was focused on the whole area of communication. Soon after,...

Bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to how you can master non-profit consulting is Douglas Nelson, managing director for the Discovery Group. Douglas shares the value of consistent action when it comes to getting organizations govern themselves better, to work together, and to have that alignment across. Taking us to his own personal journey, he talks about the challenges, obstacles, and...

In the consulting and coaching business, unless you're going to scale it by hiring hundreds of employees, there isn't this fear that the marketplace grabs this idea that you have and you start printing cash. That's what happened with the two businesses Tom Asacker was in. Tom is an educator, business advisor, and internationally published author. He says people started to lose their vision of why...

Transitions and changes can be challenging at times. It may be a little bit rockier for a short period, but the sooner that you make that transition toward the better, the sooner that you will reap the rewards. Douglas Miller, business leadership development and change management consultant, shares his story about his journey upon transitioning from working through agencies and consulting fir...

Any successful business has one thing and that is they stand out from the crowd. To put a better word, they are distinct. Diving in deep into why distinction is your next consulting advantage is Scott McKain. Scott is a keynote speaker and iconic authority known for helping organizations create distinction in every phase of business. He teaches the “Ultimate Customer Experience” and gives tangible...

Brand attachment is a metric that speaks to the level of emotional buy-in. People don’t just like these brands or these people, they adore them. They have a higher than normal word of mouth or advocacy, and thus tend to spend lower than their competitive set on traditional media. Chris Kneeland’s work aims to understand how to get somebody to pay more and be more loyal while spending less on adver...

Mark Pierce, owner, operator, and founder of E5 Leadership Academy, has been teaching people how to fish rather than giving them a fish. For 35 years, Mark has been in the coaching and mentoring business teaching, training, educating and motivating people how to be successful in life through a platform of five pillars - spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically and financially. Mark shares th...

Business doesn’t always have to be all about the technical processes. It’s also about the people running it. Professional speaker and corporate relationship expert Tony Chatman works with the people side of business to determine the kind of leadership that either makes the business succeed or fail. He points how, too often, people are trained for very specific technical expertise, failing to give...

First impression is really about human communication and how you can use your own behavior and body language to influence and persuade people. Mark Bowden is an expert in human behavior and body language and has helped people all over the world stand out with trust and gain credibility every time they communicate. Having four books on the subject under his belt, Mark give some tips on how consulta...

Leaving your consulting business to spend time with your family or friends in some other part of the world seems an inconceivable idea, most especially if you are the type who worries about their business constantly. Learn how to be able to do just that. Michael shares how he managed to run his million-dollar consulting business while traveling the world for five months. He lays down his approach...

It’s a known fact that consulting firms tend to be small businesses with a small number of employees. Oftentimes, because of this, when a simple knock is at the door, we tend to burst it open, ever-willing to accept all the opportunities. However, this leads to finding your business drowning with all of these things that you start losing your purpose. Giving his insights on this dilemma is Dov Bar...

Nick Westergaard, consulting strategist, speaker, educator, and author, talks about strategies for branding and digital marketing. With his background in theater arts and psychology, he shares how the skills he got from improvisation has helped him improved being a consultant and strategist where it gave him the ability to consider multiple perspectives. Nick discusses the importance of content cr...

So often people are spending a lot of time thinking about marketing and what they can do to get the next client. They don’t recognize that the next client is most often around them. Success comes from creating great value and results for those that you're already serving. Corporate advisor Lance Secretan focuses on only three things to attract world-class clients - doing the best possible work he...

There are a lot of people who are working on building their consulting businesses. They may already have a process in place for their marketing or for their selling, yet they're not getting the results that they want. Oftentimes, it's because they're not working the plan even though they have the plan in front of them. Michael Norton, executive vice-president of corporate training for Sandler, say...

Building your business is about building a group of people around you. You need employees and you need clients. From there, you can expand and grow your business to reach various markets. Mike Anthony of Engage Marketing Consultants is all too familiar with that process. He was one of those that left the corporate world to start his own global consultancy business. He shares what you need to learn...

For the ten years being in industry, Shannon Adkins was a buyer of consulting services and of multimillion dollar contracts of consulting services. Shannon is the president and CEO of Future State Inc., a management consulting firm that brings change management and operational transformation expertise to global enterprises in the life sciences, healthcare and technology industries. Shannon says to...