When Consulting Goes Awry
Dates:
February 12, 2025
March 12, 2025
April 9, 2025
May 14, 2025
June 11, 2025
July 9, 2025
Time: 4:00-5:30 Pacific / 6:00-7:30 CT / 7:00-8:30 ET
Cost: $300
CE Credits 1.5 Credits Per Session / 9 Total Credits
Event Description
As consultants and coaches, we have all experienced situations where we were not able to be as effective as we would like. It is often tempting to look at our clients to understand what went wrong. While there are certainly client and situational factors that play a role, it is also critical to understand how the experience is impacting us and, in turn, how we then impact the situation. As peer consultants, we can help each other dive a little deeper, explore our own reactions, risk being vulnerable with one another, and learn how we show up in our consulting and coaching roles.
The overall objective of the program is to engage in a process of self-discovery that will enable participants to enhance their effectiveness with clients. During the process of peer consulting, we will also learn skills that we can apply with our clients, as we help them gain greater self-awareness and understanding. Each meeting, one participant will present a “case” where they felt that their consulting and/or coaching went awry. Using a process of curious inquiry and genuine acknowledgment, other participants will help the person explore their thoughts, feelings, and actions/reactions.
Our goal is to help the person better understand how they showed up in their consultant role and discover lessons learned and possible strategies to show up more effectively. The role of the peer consultant will be less about giving advice and much more about creating a space for the person to gain insight and arrive at their own understanding and solutions.
Learning Objectives
• Engage in a process of self-discovery that will enable participants to enhance their effectiveness with clients.
• Learn skills that we can apply with our clients, as we help them gain greater self-awareness and understanding.
Presenters:
Doug Frost, Executive Coach:
Dr. Doug Frost is founder and President of Frost Leadership, Inc. He specializes in executive coaching and organizational consulting, with a primary focus on senior leaders and their teams. Doug has advised
hundreds of executives in a wide array of industry sectors, including Banking, Communications, Defense, Energy, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, and Technology.
Based on over two decades of working with business leaders, it is apparent that intelligence, experience, learning agility, strategic thinking, and drive are important. However, what distinguishes truly exceptional leaders is what they can accomplish with and through other people. Accordingly, Doug works from the premise that the most crucial competitive advantage of leaders and their teams resides in the quality of their relationships. Doug and his colleagues at Frost Leadership have created a straightforward set of tools and processes to help leaders and their teams build this crucial advantage.
Catherine Hambley, Executive Coach
Catherine Hambley is the Principal at Brain-Based Strategies Consulting, a consulting firm that provides executive coaching, team building, organizational development, keynote presentations, and engaging and interactive leadership development and communication workshops. Her focus is to facilitate meaningful and lasting change for senior leaders and organizations. She has a unique approach to translating brain science into practical skills and strategies to help get people’s best thinking, to increase levels of employee engagement, and to facilitate effective communication and collaboration among people. She has an extensive background in designing and delivering experiential leadership development programs, coaching leaders and their teams to enhance their effectiveness, facilitating strategic planning, and creating cultures of psychological safety, engagement, and learning.
As an internal consultant for almost 10 years to a Fortune 500 company, she has a depth of experience in navigating organizational change and identifying, developing, and retaining a pipeline of talent that is ready for future leadership roles. As an external consultant, she has worked with organizations large and small across a variety of industries – from Fortune 100 companies to start-up and family-run businesses. With her background in healthcare (she began her career as an intensive care and emergency department nurse, then moved into an emergency department manager role), she now has numerous clients in that space.
