by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Aug 11, 2026 | Consulting, Tips for Consultants
There are roughly 620,000 management consultants working in the United States today. Every one of them can point to an area of expertise: strategy, operations, finance, technology, change, or something else. That expertise, your content, is real, and it matters. It is... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Jul 13, 2026 | Consulting, Tools & Assessments
How a new professional standard turns a season of very public AI mistakes into a lasting advantage for consulting firms and the management consultants who adopt it A Rough Year for AI in Consulting Over the past year, some of the biggest names in professional services... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Apr 3, 2026 | Certification, Tips for Consultants
At the end of March 2026 my newsfeed coincidentally led me to two recent reports on management consulting that paint a clear picture of where management consulting is headed. The destination – a new model for consulting – may feel uncomfortable for individuals... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Aug 18, 2025 | Certification
In this, the final blog or our series, we will attempt to pull it all together and paint a picture of how you can further differentiate and elevate your consulting practice in the crowded marketplace of management consulting. We would hope we would not have to... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Jul 2, 2025 | Certification
In our sixth blog of the series, we present another way to further differentiate your consulting practice: get training in ISO 20700. ISO (the International Organization for Standards) standards are internationally recognized by many industries. Consulting prospects... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | May 29, 2025 | Certification
In the first four blogs of this series, we outlined three (of five) key differentiators you can use to clearly separate yourself and your consulting practice from the estimated 850,000 to 1,000,000 other consultants in the U.S. today. They were: Adherence to an... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Apr 24, 2025 | Certification, Tips for Consultants
This blog post is the fourth in a series on how to differentiate your consulting practice. Continuing our series on Five Ways to Raise Your Game in Consulting, in this post I take an added step and suggest additional market differentiation through the understanding... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Apr 11, 2025 | Certification
This blog post is the third in a series on how to differentiate your consulting practice by using an internationally recognized competence framework. In the previous blog, Part 2 – Adherence to an Enforceable Code of Ethics, I presented that adherence of an... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Feb 27, 2025 | Certification, Consulting, Ethics
In the first of this series, Five Ways to Raise Your Game, I introduced another way to further build your brand and, thereby, your practice – by differentiating yourself and your consultancy (e.g., practice) in a deeper, more meaningful way – by focusing on How... 
by David Norman, FCMC, CMC-AF | Feb 1, 2025 | Certification
By David Norman, FCMC, CMC®-AF This article is first in a series: Five Ways To Raise Your Consulting Game. Over a short two-day span in 2023 two consulting-related articles caught my attention. First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted...