Traveling the Consulting Road: Career Wisdom for new consultants, candidates, and their mentors

by Alan Cay Culler

A complete newbie to pro guide to a successful consulting careerTraveling the Consulting Road is a book about consulting for new consultants, students investigating the field, and for more senior consultants who find themselves coaching newbies. These are the funny stories, lessons-learned-the-hard-way, and tools and methodologies used, from Alan Culler’s thirty-seven year consulting career. The book traces the trajectory of a consulting career with information about the evolution of the industry, and specific advice about getting hired, succeeding inside a firm or as an independent if you choose.Alan’s stated purpose to help others “avoid the mistakes I made. “I succeeded in spite of myself, but it wasn’t always the best path.” Alan’s ability to poke fun at himself makes for easy reading and the insightful descriptions will help candidates evaluate the field and new consultants be successful. Alan often says, “Don’t do what I did! This is what I wish I understood at the time.”His “Be authentic! You are the product ̶ help clients change results in their business.”

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About the author

I'm still trying to decide what I'm going to be when I grow up.

So far, not counting failures as a paper boy and a golf caddy, I've had four careers, actor, booking agent for celebrity speakers, change consultant, and now writer.

Change consultant was the longest, (37 years) most financially successful, (not that I got rich, but I was able to retire and write). My first two books were about that, the consulting part and the change leader part.

I tell stories about my life and people I've met who shared some wisdom or otherwise influenced me. My next book Wisdom from Unusual Places is less business-y more stories.

I play at acoustic and cigarbox guitar, woodcarving, and songwriting. I try to be a good husband, father and grandfather, and still wonder about growing up.

Reviews

[Mia · Rating 1 out of 5]

It wasn't what I expected at all!
1 star just for experience of writer which he tried to show.
In first I want to write that I love non fiction, professional difficult good nonfiction, love to make conspectus.
But this wasn't non fiction, it was like memoir with some kind of educational professional info. And It was really hard to find useful information deserve to be notated in all personal author's thoughts, opinions, moments of his life, artistically described situation and a lot, a lot of people which I don't need to know, and don't want to know in subject of this book, and some unpleasant slang and curse language which I actually don't want to see in book where I try to find somethin to learn. All graphics - unreadable in e-book size, and when I tried to zooming, it became pixelated and still unreadable at all, and worst part that these graphic doesn't have any structured description in text. This book doesn't have any structure besides chapters at all.
Who can read this book? I don't know maybe professional in this sphere, how writer is, who can diagonally read this book and find some "true life" experience to make them smile.

[Bob Musial · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for “newbies” contemplating consulting as a career. And a strong source of insights and reminders for those of us who have been around for a while.