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 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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Terri Wright-Scheer
Vice President Human Resources

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

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 has a tremendous ability to distil complex, multilayered challenges into meaningful, impactful, and clear strategies and action plans.

The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

Bindu Garapaty, PsyD
VP, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

LSA has been a tremendous asset at my current company and my past company.

As an HR leader, I am always looking for ways to find external resources that can provide impactful leadership and management development expertise. LSA consistently does that for me.

The tools and practices are crisp, business relevant, and easy to apply on the job.

Ken Boehm
VP of Human Resources

For our go to training outsourcing partner, LSA provides exactly what we want and need – which is not an easy task.

As always, they design and deliver outstanding leadership development results and high quality management training programs that totally align with our unique business and talent strategies!

Elizabeth Siebert
Director, Organizational Excellence & Development

It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and 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

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

LSA’s action-learning leadership approach has been very beneficial to me, our leadership team, and the entire organization.

The balance of development and results has been excellent.

We have made huge progress, and I was also able to identify 2-3 high potentials while having the extra benefit of people stepping up to carry key strategic projects forward.

The experience was better than anticipated. I could not be more pleased.

Heather Feltman
President & CEO

We greatly value our relationship with LSA Global.

They focused on understanding our unique culture and helping us to move our strategic priorities forward.

LSA continues to deliver top quality executive coaching, consulting, and leadership development solutions that are highly customized for our unique situation.

I highly recommend LSA Global to anyone looking to greatly improve their leadership, management, and project capabilities.

Bonnie S. Olson
Vice President of Human Resources

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant. The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

We contacted LSA to help us design and deliver customized management development programs. LSA worked with us to meet our exact needs. We started at the top with our executive team. It was such a great success that we rolled it out company-wide. We look forward to a long-term partnership with LSA Global and their team of experts.

Barry L. Byrd, SPHR
Human Resources Manager

Having tripled in size and recently merged, LSA helped our executive team to increase our level of strategic alignment, to solidify our new direction, and to push our agency forward.

As we look to rapidly scale, the clear, actionable, and critical few strategic moves combined with how we differentiate ourselves to our top accounts and target clients has really set us on a great path to success.

This is exactly what we needed to get to the next level. Thank you LSA!

Matt Britton
CEO

LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & 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.