Management Consultant
Management consultants influence how businesses, governments, and institutions make decisions. Individual consultants and consulting firms often operate behind the scenes to provide resources their clients cannot provide for themselves. In particular, they offer expertise in the form of knowledge, experience, special skills, and creativity, or combinations of these resources. Speaking, writing, and interpersonal communication skills contribute significantly to consultants’ success, regardless of their specialties.
The management consulting services industry is diverse. Almost anyone with expertise in a given field may enter consulting. Nearly 25 percent are self-employed. Management consultants and consulting firms advise clients from all areas, including large and small companies in the private sector; federal, state, and local government agencies; institutions such as hospitals, universities, unions, and nonprofit organizations; as well as international governments and businesses.
Programs offered by JFK University’s School of Management (SOM) emphasize social responsibility, sustainability, and ethical business practices that encourage you to gain the knowledge, skills, and values you need to succeed as a consultant in today’s dynamic business environment. With a background from JFKU in business administration, career development, or strategic management, you may consult in e-commerce, project management, leadership, strategy, or other issues.
To establish yourself as a management consultant, you may also benefit from pursuing any of the following JFK University programs or degrees.
The Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) offers both master’s and certificate programs in organizational psychology, which is the multidisciplinary study of organizational change and development. Also available are a certificate in organizational coaching, a master’s in counseling psychology, and the PsyD degree. In our programs, you’ll recognize that change is a constant in almost every governmental, nonprofit, and business organization. You’ll emerge with critical people-oriented skills in organizational development, leadership, team building, managing diversity, coaching, managing and resolving conflict, and personal mastery.
Programs through JFKU’s School of Holistic Studies (SHS) that may be helpful to the profession of management consulting include master’s degrees in consciousness and transformative studies, integral psychology, and counseling psychology, with specializations in holistic studies, somatic psychology, or transpersonal psychology. Our experiential approach integrates body, mind, spirit, environment, and culture for a deeper understanding of self and others, as well as the skills to integrate holistic perspectives into life and work.
Related programs through JFKU’s School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) include psychology; science, health, and living systems; social ecology; and the certificate in Essentials Coaching, offered in cooperation with the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching.
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