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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 a certificate program in the growing field of sports management. With this certificate individuals may pursue careers in consulting for sport event planning, professional sports, university athletic programs, and club sport associations. The school also offers a certificate in Exercise and Sport Performance, as well as Master's degrees in Sport Psychology and Counseling Psychology and the PsyD degree.

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; and social ecology.

To learn more, contact:

• the School of Management,
• the Graduate School of Professional Psychology,
• the School of Holistic Studies, or
• the School of Education and Liberal Arts.