Episode 121: Career Advice From The Best in the Business Round 7

If you’re a regular listener to the Climb in Consulting podcast, you’ll know that every few months we like to switch things up, deviating from our usual interview format to bring you something a little different - and this episode is exactly that! New to Climb In Consulting? Then let us explain. Every episode, our guests offer fantastic insights and advice, particularly when they’re answering one very important question that we ask everyone who comes on the show: ‘What one piece of advice would you give to someone just starting their career in consulting, someone at Manager level and someone approaching Partner?’ Because our guests come from such a wide range of backgrounds, and have followed many different consulting career paths, they all have their own unique perspective on this question, and always provide varied and insightful responses. Many of our listeners have told us that they love listening to these answers, which is why we put them all together in our special round-up shows. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from a selection of guests from the past eight months of Climb In Consulting, as they all draw on their individual experiences to bring you valuable insights on how to build a successful consulting career. In this episode, you’ll be hearing from: Keith Burgess - Head of Management Consulting Development Curriculum EMEA at IBM Michael Simmonds & Manfred Abraham – Co-CEOs at Yonder Consulting Andrew Zimmerman – CEO at Journey Catherine Crump - Managing Director at Wired Consulting Heather Townsend – Best Selling Author & Global Expert on Making Partner Ashley Chapman – CEO at inlumi James O'Sullivan - CEO at Project One Consulting Chris Gant - Managing Partner at Wunderman Thompson Consulting There’s so much great advice featured in this episode, and we’re sure you’ll get a lot out of it, no matter what stage you’re at in your career.

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As a management consultant myself I’ve always been lucky to have mentors who have guided me through my career. When I was in house I regularly had quality time with Senior Partners that helped me rapidly accelerate my career and has continued to help since I’ve gone out on my own. While I had this great resource and knowledge bank to draw on I know many friends in Consulting aren’t as lucky with some only speaking with senior partners on a monthly or quarterly basis. That’s why I created this podcast. I wanted to help people like you who want to accelerate their careers in consulting by interviewing leaders in the field to share the advice, tips and strategies that they used to get to the top so that you can to so that you can too. In each Episode I’ll be interviewing a senior figure in the industry so that you can learn from them. We’ll be going deep in to their background, how they succeeded and what their advice would be for you. This podcast is brought to you by Create Engage the Digital Marketing agency for the disruptive Management Consultancy. Digital Marketing has moved forward, but most consulting firms haven’t. Many Consulting firms still see their corporate blog as their sole Digital Marketing channel and find themselves frustrated when these blogs yield little if any results. To help those of you who want to harness the power of Digital Marketing to grow your Consulting Business but don’t have the knowledge, capacity or in-house capability to do so I launched Create Engage, the first Digital Marketing agency for the Management Consulting Industry. If you’d like to find out more about how Create Engage can help you use Digital Marketing to take your business to the next level then drop me an email at [email protected] or go to our website www.createengage.co.uk where you can download our free case study that breaks down down the Digital Marketing strategies used by one successful Consulting firm to help them grow over 400% in just 3 years and gives you the secrets they used, so that you can apply them in your own firm.