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Coaching Skills For Consultants

Elevate Your Impact & Client Results


Learn how The Art & Science of Coaching™ helps consultants solve complex problems, build client capability, and deliver transformational results.

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Why Consultants Need Coaching Skills Today

Consulting is evolving. Clients aren’t just looking for answers; they’re looking for partners who help them think differently, build internal capability, and create sustainable change.

Coaching skills give you that edge:

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Move from expert-driven recommendations to collaborative, human-centric problem solving

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Build client capability rather than dependency

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Strengthen ownership, accelerate adoption, and reduce resistance

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Enhance decision-making, engagement, innovation, and psychological safety

Consultants around the world are now being hired as coaches, not just advisors. Adding coaching to your toolkit is a significant differentiator.

How Coaching Skills Transform Consulting Work

Enhance Client Engagement

Coaching elevates the quality of conversations.

It encourages inquiry instead of 'telling'.

And it creates shared ownership of outcomes.

Accelerate Problem Solving

Group coaching drives faster learning and deeper insight​.

It also facilitates high-quality thinking instead of prescribing solutions.

Build Long-Term Client Capability

Coaching equips clients to solve future challenges independently​.

It helps deliver value that extends beyond the engagement.

 

Strengthen Your Firm’s Internal Culture

Coaching supports mentorship and feedback culture​.

It builds stronger leadership conversations among senior consultants and partners​. 

 

Increase Your Service Offering & Revenue Streams

With coaching you can expand into Executive coaching​, Team coaching​, Leadership development​, Facilitation​, and change management with a coaching lens​.

This growth allows for higher-value, longer-term client relationships and greater differentiation.

 

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Why The Art & Science of Coaching Is the Best Fit for Consultants

This program is designed for consultants who want practical, immediately applicable skills:

  • 45+ years of global coaching excellence.
  • 2024 Global Distinguished Coach Education Provider
  • Pioneers of solution-focused, neuroscience-based coaching
  • Accredited for Levels 1, 2, 3 + Team Coaching
  • Flexible online or in-person delivery
  • Practical, structured, and tailored for consulting settings.
  • Strong focus on inquiry, mindset, and facilitation
  • Builds the communication and leadership tools consultants need now.
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What You’ll Learn as a Consultant

  • Ask powerful, insight-generating questions
  • Facilitate group coaching and collaborative problem solving
  • Guide clients through complexity
  • Structure coaching conversations that spark action
  • Support mindset shifts
  • Improve listening, presence, and influence
  • Create accountability-driven action plans
  • Build trust and psychological safety

Who This Program Is For?

  • Management consulting
  • Strategy consulting
  • Leadership/executive consulting
  • Independent consulting
  • Boutique firm partnerships
  • Senior advisory roles
  • Transformation and change management
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HOW COACHING SKILLS STRENGTHENED CLIENT CAPABILITY & INTERNAL CULTURE

Berlineaton, a Canadian consulting firm, noticed a growing shift: clients increasingly wanted coaching support alongside traditional consulting. Managing Partner Shelly Berlin chose The Art & Science of Coaching™ to meet this need, drawn to Erickson’s structured yet flexible approach.

 

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LEARNINGS FROM A RECENT ERICKSON CMC WEBINAR

 

In this Erickson & CMC 'What’s Up Wednesday' Webinar, senior management consultants and coaches come together to reflect on where consulting ends and coaching begins. They also discuss why combining both pathways leads to better outcomes.​

 

 

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Ready to elevate your consulting practice?

Engage more deeply, think more systemically, and deliver greater value.

 

OUR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Coaching strengthens client engagement, accelerates problem solving, and builds long-term capability.

They facilitate workshops, guide strategic thinking, improve team collaboration, and empower clients to solve challenges independently. 

Clients expect partners who build capability, not just deliver recommendations. Coaching enables deeper collaboration and lasting transformation. 

Erickson’s The Art & Science of Coaching™ offers neuroscience-based, practical tools designed for consulting environments, leadership development, and client facilitation.​​​

Yes. Many consultants add executive coaching, team coaching, and leadership development as new revenue streams.​​​

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