“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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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