Traveling the Consulting Road: Career wisdom for new consultants, candidates, and their mentors

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Alan Cay Culler

Traveling the Consulting Road

Career wisdom for new consultants, candidates, and their mentors

Alan Cay Culler

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Unusual Wisdom Press LLC
21 March 2024

Consultancy & grants for businesses; Advice on careers & achieving success

"A complete newbie to pro guide to a successful consulting career

Traveling the Consulting Road is a book about consulting for new consultants, students investigating the field, and for more senior consultants who find themselves sorting out late career choices and coaching newbies. These are the funny stories, lessons-learned-the-hard-way, and tools and methodologies used, from Alan Culler's lifetime consulting career. The book traces the trajectory of a consulting career with information about the evolution of the industry, and specific advice about getting hired, succeeding inside a firm or as an independent if you choose.

Clients hiire consultants to increase revenue, improve profit or for ""people stuff."" People stuf has huge implications on both revenue and profit, but often clients don't see the economic implications of leadership development, process alignement, organization design, and climate and culture.

Alan started out in consulting doing new product introduction research, but gravitated to ""people stuff"" over time. He comments from his work with firms large and small and from being an independent consultant, the founder of a firm and also a network of independents.

This is a book written for new consultants to use throughout their career. Consequently those with more experience may find themselves skipping to the later chapters to read about the rainmaker and thought leader roles or whether and when to start a firm or go independent.

Alan's stated purpose to help others ""avoid the mistakes I made. ""I succeeded in spite of myself, but it wasn't always the best path."" Alan's ability to poke fun at himself makes for easy reading and the insightful descriptions will help candidates evaluate the field and new consultants be successful. Alan often says, ""Don't do what I did! This is what I wish I understood at the time.""

His advice ""Be authentic! You are the product ̶ help clients change results in their business."""

By: Alan Cay Culler
Imprint: Unusual Wisdom Press LLC
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 676g
ISBN: 9798987851821
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Traveling the Consulting Road: Career wisdom for new consultants, candidates, and their mentors

"""Reading Traveling the Consulting Road feels like waiting out a rain delay in the Admirals Club at O'Hare, sitting next to a seasoned industry veteran willing to share his accumulated wisdom. "" ""Alan shares the good, the bad, the crazy, and the funny. So if you are contemplating a career in consulting, or making a career change into consulting, take a look at this book."" ""The best part of the book is getting to know the author in this way, while gaining practical understanding of how to handle certain situations, and maybe avoid situations by learning lessons that the author learned the hard way."" ""I read this book over several longer train journeys. It is those first chapters, where he describes the experience of being a ""newbie"", and shares his learnings [that] . . . helped me establish the right mindset. I'm only 6 weeks into the new consulting career but I know reading this book was helpful to settle me in."""