Consulting Skills Training - Consultative Partnering

“The Consulting Skills Training Workshop was crucial in helping our HR business partners work more strategically with their internal clients and stakeholders.

The skills and techniques greatly improved their ability to gain understand the situation, credibility, sell recommendations, and apply a strategic consulting process to get better results.”
SVP Human Resources | Fortune 1000 Technology Company

“The customized session on elevating strategic impact for our corporate marketing team was a tremendous success. The facilitator was absolutely phenomenal and brought so much energy, insight, and credibility to the experience.

I could not be happier with the entire end-to-end partnership, from the thoughtful design process to the exceptional facilitation. This was truly a standout experience, and I’ll be enthusiastically advocating for your capabilities and impact across other groups at Astera Labs.”
Paramo Sen | VP Corporate Marketing | Astera Labs, Inc.

The Consultative Partnering™ Series consists of three consulting skills workshops incorporating the latest research and real client experiences.

The foundation of each consulting skills course uses proven models and techniques that have been successful for more than 20 years. To ensure relevance, each consulting workshop is designed for specific populations within the organization to address variations in skill gaps, challenges, and activities at different positional levels.

The Essentials of Consultative Partnering™
This intensive two-day foundational workshop is designed for individual contributors and technical professionals who want to strengthen their consulting capabilities and increase their business impact. Participants gain the core Consultative Partnering™ frameworks, tools, and interpersonal skills needed to build credibility, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and drive stronger results on critical projects and initiatives.

Through practical application and real-world scenarios, participants learn how to communicate more strategically, diagnose client needs more effectively, and apply a proven consulting process to become trusted business partners with both internal and external clients. The program equips professionals to move beyond task execution and contribute more strategically to organizational outcomes.

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Advanced Consultative Partnering™
Advanced Consultative Partnering™ is designed for senior professionals, managers, and experienced business partners who must influence complex decisions, lead high-stakes initiatives, and strengthen strategic relationships across the organization. This immersive two- to three-day workshop builds on foundational consulting skills and provides a more sophisticated approach to consultative partnering in dynamic business environments.

Participants learn how to navigate challenging stakeholder interactions, lead critical cross-functional projects, and communicate compelling value propositions that resonate with executive audiences. The program emphasizes advanced influencing strategies, executive-level communication, and the ability to frame recommendations in terms of measurable business impact, risk mitigation, and organizational priorities.

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Consulting Skills Training: Build Strategic Influence, Trusted Partnerships, and Business Impact

Consultative Partnering for Leaders™
Consultative Partnering for Leaders™ is an intensive two- to three-day facilitated working session designed for leaders responsible for driving meaningful organizational change. Whether the goal is to build a more consultative culture, increase customer focus, build high performing teams, or accelerate business transformation, this program helps leadership teams align around the behaviors and strategies required to lead change effectively.

The program provides a focused executive-level version of the Consultative Partnering™ methodology to encourage visible, top-down modeling of the consulting behaviors essential for organizations navigating growth, complexity, and transformation. Leaders learn how to foster stronger collaboration, improve decision-making, and reinforce accountability while creating the conditions for sustained organizational performance.

Through a highly interactive and customized process, leadership teams work together to clarify the vision for change, assess organizational readiness, identify barriers to adoption, and strengthen communication strategies that build alignment and commitment. Participants also define the critical leadership actions, governance practices, and organizational development priorities necessary to sustain momentum and achieve strategic business goals.

Our senior consultants partner closely with leadership teams to tailor the experience, content, and agenda to the organization’s unique strategic objectives, cultural dynamics, and developmental priorities — ensuring immediate relevance and practical application.

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Target Audience
The Essentials of Consultative Partnering series is targeted at professionals across all industries that interact with internal and/or external clients such as Professional Services Consultants, Engineering, IT, Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Learning & Development, and Operations.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about consulting skills training program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.

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CIO & SVP

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What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help assess and develop high performing leaders.

Tracy Esposito
Director

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

Your team was amazing. Facilitative Leadership was one of the best leadership and change workshops my team has ever attended. Thank you!

Diane White
Executive Director, Head of Product Development

LSA helped us with leadership development by designing a solution to match our unique needs and culture.

It was a huge success. I would highly recommend LSA to help take leaders and managers to the next level.

Karen King, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources

The customized leadership styles and coaching program was the best training that I have ever attended. The facilitators were phenomenal. They have a wealth of experience and knowledge coupled with compassionate and caring styles. I’d highly recommend this leadership training program to any manager, director, or executive looking for a life changing leadership program.

Shoaleh Ghaffari
Director, HR

What a refreshing change from the half-baked psycho-babble you normally get from training and consulting organizations. LSA gives you the practical and results-oriented assistance you need to define and reach your goals.

Their leadership, management, and sales expertise has been invaluable. They think strategically and provide a results driven plan – not just a temporary fix.

They are great to work with, and even more importantly, they “get it!”

David Fiano
Director of Merchandising

The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational. The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed. Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening. I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

Kristin Talastas
Director, HR Shared Services

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation. They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing. I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance. They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

We partnered with LSA Global to help us invest in our people. LSA custom designed an impactful management curriculum to help upskill our key managers and leaders.

We consider LSA to be our trusted learning and development partner and a valued extension of our team as we rapidly scale. Thank you LSA!

Lisa Bruun
SVP Human Resources

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly customized, focused, and relevant management training program that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

FAQs

The Consultative Partnering™ Series is a research-based consulting skills training program designed to help professionals become more strategic, influential, customer-centric, and results-oriented. The series includes foundational, advanced, and leadership-level workshops tailored for individual contributors, managers, senior leaders, HR business partners, finance professionals, technical experts, and cross-functional teams who work closely with internal or external stakeholders.

Participants strengthen practical consulting and partnering capabilities such as stakeholder management, strategic communication, executive influence, needs diagnosis, problem solving, project leadership, and value-based recommendation skills. The workshops emphasize real-world application through customized case studies, role plays, coaching, experiential learning, and interactive exercises focused on measurable business outcomes.

Each workshop is highly customized to the organization’s specific business goals, culture, industry challenges, and participant roles. LSA Global customizes examples, scenarios, simulations, and application exercises to ensure the content is directly relevant to the participants’ day-to-day business realities and strategic priorities.

Organizations typically use the program to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase strategic influence, strengthen client and stakeholder relationships, accelerate decision making, and elevate overall effectiveness. The consulting skills framework is designed to help professionals move beyond transactional support roles and contribute more directly to organizational performance, growth, and transformation initiatives.

Yes. The Consultative Partnering™ workshops can be delivered in-person, virtually, or in hybrid formats for regional and global teams. Programs are designed to support distributed organizations and can be adapted for multicultural, remote, and cross-functional environments to ensure consistent learning and application across locations.