Consulting can be a tough game. All of these Type-A personalities aggressively posturing and circling each other for the kill. Egos are large and there’s no shortage of locker-room braggadocio.
It’s an industry that employs far too many sports metaphors and comes with a distinct odor of machismo.
Couple this with the fact that consultants dealing in Business/Technology Architecture roles often have technical or engineering backgrounds and this sets the scene for one of the great critiques of the field: Consulting is a Boys Club.
I wanted to talk to my friends about what it’s like for women in the consulting field. I turned to the smartest business architect consultant I know, Whynde Keuhn, to join the cast for a lively discussion on the topic.
In our conversation:
- Why is there a gender imbalance in consulting?
- Why does it matter?
- What can be done about it?
- Where does the quest for gender diversity stand?
- What other tropes about women in consulting can be debunked?
- What could men learn from their female consultant colleagues that could perhaps improve our effectiveness?
- What could women learn from their male consultant colleagues that could perhaps improve THEIR effectiveness?
- For people just starting out in consulting, what are the key take-aways?
- Should the world just be run by women?
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