Mirador Access: Creative and Strategic Consulting

Of all the business services I provide, my role as a consultant is the hardest for me to capture in words. This is probably because some measure of consulting is involved in pretty well everything I do, such that the term “consulting” becomes difficult to distinguish as a category in and of itself.

With production clients, for example, I regularly consult about the costs and functional requirements necessarily to legally manufacture recordings onto CD or DVD. Similarly, with coaching clients, I advise and teach a variety of skills to strategically support whatever change process is underway. But in both cases, whether as a producer or a coach, the perspective I bring to the client is incorporated into a broader series of efforts that I help direct for clients.

With consulting, however, it’s a bit different. Here, I am paid directly for my opinion and or insight, but whether the client accepts or uses what I provide is not really my responsibility. It, is however, my concern, which is why I tend to favor the modality of coaching over consulting. I mean, often we have more than enough information about what we should do, but still, we don’t do it. As a consultant, my role might be to help you understand why you aren’t doing what you say you want to do. As a coach, however, my role is simply to get you to just do it. 

In short, I believe what we all need is not more information but the insight and confidence to actually apply what we know. And this is a capacity that is practiced and supported over time, not through the conveyance of more opinions and subtle distinctions.

This said, if a client is at all curious and open to enlarging their perspective by hearing mine, I am available.

I am just as likely to employ my skills as a strategic interventionist as I am to explore a client’s personality type, expressive symbols, personal archetypes, through dream analysis, creative visualization, and various forms of expressive role play. Heck! I’d even pull out a pack of tarot cards if I didn’t think the client would misinterpret my efforts.

My point is, as a consultant, I am less an expert as a creative ally. So to those with a robust curiosity and the courage to explore things in new, creative ways, I am here help.