Networking, Mentoring, and Education for Consultants and Solo Professionals
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, April 11th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. We'll be on a video call from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
This meetup is sponsored by the Society of Professional Consultants (SPC) and is open to members and non-members.
We'll have a short general session for everyone and then break out into small virtual meeting rooms. You'll get a chance to make new connections and learn from your colleagues.
There's no registration fee to attend. We're limiting the meetup to 25 people so please register and save your spot. We hope you can join us!
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Branding is Easier than You Think: Enhance Your Consulting Brand in 3 Easy Steps
Do you struggle to be clear and succinct when selling your expertise? Experienced consultants offer a wealth of skills and deep knowledge to their customers. Packaging up a diverse portfolio into a “brand” can seem daunting.
Have no fear! Even if your current branding consists of nothing more than your name, it can be enhanced.
In this interactive workshop led by Ari M. Weinstein you will learn branding basics for consultants, including:
This rapid presentation will leave you enough time to ask the presenter anything about branding in a full 20-minute Q&A session.
About Our Speaker
Ari M. Weinstein turned 38 years of experience as a brand developer and corporate officer into a unique coaching practice. He partners with executives and entrepreneurs to strengthen their brands, leading to new opportunities for professional growth and business development.
Ari is the author of the eBook Personal Branding at Work. He has led branding workshops for diverse audiences including technology professionals, healthcare workers, engineers, and veterans of the armed forces. Ari shares his knowledge on LinkedIn where he loves making new connections. When he’s not working or writing, he loves spending time hiking or taking photos in New York’s Hudson Valley and Downeast Maine.
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, May 9th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. We'll be on a video call from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Telling the Truth: A Storytelling Workshop with Brian Perry
Are you telling your authentic story? A story that connects you with your ideal clients? If you're feeling blocked or stuck in some way, this workshop with Brian Perry can help you find the confidence to claim your story, and the words to share your story.
Here's Brian's description on how attending this workshop will help you harness your unique voice, and uncover your unique you-ness through storytelling.
“Tell the truth. Tell the truth. Tell the truth.” - Sheryl Louis Moller Move beyond outlines, structures, and formulas to birth the story that wants to be told NOW. Learn to tune into the aliveness and to follow it to the story that wants to be told, that needs to be told. The people you most long to serve at the depth you long to serve them, first need to feel seen and understood. Stories are the shortest distance between here and there. Because stories unlock, reveal, and connect us. And, poetically enough, the stories that feel most challenging to share turn out to be the most universal. Go figure. Great speaking isn’t about performance, it’s about presence. In this transformative workshop, I invite you to uncover the stories at the heart of your message and so you can share it with courage and authenticity. Together we’ll explore:
“Tell the truth. Tell the truth. Tell the truth.” - Sheryl Louis Moller
Move beyond outlines, structures, and formulas to birth the story that wants to be told NOW. Learn to tune into the aliveness and to follow it to the story that wants to be told, that needs to be told.
The people you most long to serve at the depth you long to serve them, first need to feel seen and understood. Stories are the shortest distance between here and there. Because stories unlock, reveal, and connect us. And, poetically enough, the stories that feel most challenging to share turn out to be the most universal. Go figure.
Great speaking isn’t about performance, it’s about presence. In this transformative workshop, I invite you to uncover the stories at the heart of your message and so you can share it with courage and authenticity.
Together we’ll explore:
If you want to speak with more soul, courage, and connection, this workshop will help you step into your story and share it in a way that moves and transforms both you and your audience. As a singer-songwriter, authentic communication coach, and speaker, I work with people drawn to a calling. They’re creative, service-oriented, and purpose-driven people who have a message and a mission — but are feeling blocked or stuck in some way. I help you find the words and confidence to claim, share, and LIVE your story.
If you want to speak with more soul, courage, and connection, this workshop will help you step into your story and share it in a way that moves and transforms both you and your audience.
As a singer-songwriter, authentic communication coach, and speaker, I work with people drawn to a calling. They’re creative, service-oriented, and purpose-driven people who have a message and a mission — but are feeling blocked or stuck in some way. I help you find the words and confidence to claim, share, and LIVE your story.
There's no charge for this workshop.
With decades of experience, Brian Perry serves as an authentic communication coach, singer-songwriter, and speaker. Stories are the through-line of it all, helping you live more of your once-in-any-lifetime story. Because living your story matters.
At the heart of each of his vocations is Brian’s passion for helping people get out of their own way and into their own way. Helping people live their most empowered and joyful experience of their life. And to amplify their impact along the way. Brian leans on each of his crafts to offer a path forward with poetic clarity, humor, and pragmatism.
His most recent book is “The Myth Of Certainty…And Other Great News” and his most recent album is “Yes, And.” Both are available in all the usual places. Brian is based in the Atlanta area — but proudly by way of New Orleans.
Learn more about Brian at https://www.yesbrianperry.com/
Using Emotional Intelligence to Manage Difficult Clients
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the foundation for effective communication, collaboration and developing and sustaining relationships with your clients.
The ability to understand and control one’s own emotions, and to understand other people’s emotions, enables for improvements in how we interact with our clients and supports managing clients who may be more difficult to work with and/or who get upset easily.
EI is about interpersonal savvy. It is about relating well to all types of individuals, establishing relationships and building rapport to achieve goals, and using diplomacy and tact to ensure a mutually respective and productive working relationship.
In this interactive session, Gina Abudi will share the four key areas of emotional intelligence. Learning goals in this session include:
Participants will receive a mini EI self-assessment to complete prior to the workshop to gain a better understanding of strengths in EI.
About Our Speaker:
Gina Abudi, is President of Abudi Consulting Group, LLC, a woman-owned business. She utilizes her nearly 40 years of consulting, coaching and executive leadership experience to work closely with executives and Boards of Directors of mid- to large global organizations to lead and support strategic, transformational change initiatives.
Her work is focused on supporting employees to adopt change by coaching leaders on change, providing change management consulting services, and offering training programs related to leading and championing/supporting change.
Gina is the co-author of Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects: Six Steps to Success, J Ross Publishing, 2017, which she wrote in collaboration with her husband, Yusuf Abudi; and the author of Implementing Positive Organizational Change: A Strategic Project Management Approach, J. Ross Publishing, 2017. She is working on her 4th book, her 2nd on the topic of change management, The Profit Maximizing Culture: A Strategic Guide to Building your Organization’s Change Capabilities. (Expected in 2026.)
Gina is an adjunct faculty member at Clark University where she teaches in their Executive MBA program.
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, June 13th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. We'll be on a video call from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
