Gentle Consulting
Claire Barrett, Andrea ChiarelliHelping consultants and clients do their best work together. Stories, ideas, tips and musings gathered from actual experience in the field on both sides of the consulting < > client relationship. With a peppering of women in tech stuff.
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Five Lessons From Board Whispering That Work For Any Presentation.
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It was Monday 7.30am on my usual walk to work when the phone rang.
Seeing the caller ID, I picked up immediately.
It was from Sanjeev*, the exec running our part of the business. He’d got to know me through a project...
Leadership Is About Navigating Nuance Rather Than Making Binary Decisions.
AI-created by Gemini (unlike the text which is AI-ignorant)
I recall the feelings of frustration early in my consulting career in my 20s.
“Isn’t it obvious that ____ needs fixing?”
“Just make the decision about ____ , then everything wil...
Why "Speaking For" Delivers More Than "Speaking Up"
Image unashamedly from Gemini AI.
There’s plenty of good advice out there on how to communicate with senior leaders: lead with your recommendation, structure your argument clearly, and commit to your position.
For consultants, this matter...
Instant Noodles Might Be The Missing Ingredient For Client Success. If you listen and learn.
Image from Gemini. Includes reference to Pot Noodles (a Uniliever trademark).
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I was consulting to an financial asset management company.
Their team had a brilliant and talented employee who worked in the actuarial team. She...
Less Haste, More Speed: Rethinking AI Adoption Before It Goes Feral
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AI is everywhere.
It’s seeping—or leaping?—into every conversation work-related or otherwise.
It’s not just everywhere on online platforms, although it feels like less of a flood here on Substack than feeds on ot...
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Board whisperer and human connector helping technologists get strategies and API-related plans understood and adopted without baffling or blindsiding in the process. Lessons from life and work in 4 continents, both consulting and being consulted to.
Showing you how to think like a (human) consultant in the age of AI. Management Consultant & Board member. PhD & MBA. Chartered Fellow of the CMI.
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