Students focus on learning the consulting process by initializing, developing, and implementing a real-world project with a business client. Students will engage in problem diagnosis, learn and undertake different consulting approaches and styles, build client-consultant relationships, manage change, and uphold professional codes of conduct and ethics. 

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Work cooperatively and collaboratively in a consulting project team. 
• Differentiate internal and external consulting in terms of context, characteristics, and challenges.
• Distinguish between the different types of consultants and explain the differences between stakeholders in each consulting arena. 
• Analyze an existing organization and apply consulting techniques to diagnose problems, collect information, and prepare a consulting report and implementation plan.
• Apply the basic principles of proposal development and project management in a consulting project. Identify and discuss ethical considerations and concerns specifically applicable to consultants.

Students will prepare a detailed report with research, analysis, insights and recommendations on the proposed business need. Students will also develop and present a 45-minute presentation summarizing their final report.