5 skills you need to be a great consultant

Matt Lewin
The Startup
Published in
5 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Consultants are hired to provide two things: expertise and advice.

There’s no shortage of consultants offering help to those willing to pay for it. Anyone can claim authority on a subject, market their exploits, and call themselves a consultant. In fact, in the digital age, this includes artificial lifeforms as AI-based systems increasingly compete for consulting dollars.

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Matt Lewin
The Startup

Consultant, strategist and writer. I write about working life, personal growth and the writing process. Director at Esri Canada