Consulting & Strategy
Four weeks of structured project work in strategic analysis, market research, and business problem-solving — applying consulting frameworks to a real-world mandate, in a global team.
What you'll actually build
Every group works on one structured consulting brief built around a real business problem — a market entry question, a competitive positioning challenge, or a strategic growth problem for a specific company or sector. You are not writing an essay. You are producing a recommendation.
Your group is the advisory team. The brief is the mandate. Groups work through the problem as a consulting team would — structuring the question, building the evidence base, applying strategic frameworks, and constructing a recommendation with a clear logic chain that holds up under scrutiny.
The final deliverable is a structured recommendation deck, produced collaboratively across four workstreams and presented live to the full cohort at the end of Week 4.
Align
Define the problem scope, structure the central question, agree on workstream split and hypothesis.
Build
Build the evidence base, apply strategic frameworks, gather market data, test the hypothesis across workstreams.
Converge
Synthesise findings, draw conclusions, stress-test the logic chain, agree on a clear recommendation.
Deliver
Finalise the recommendation deck, build the narrative, present live to the full cohort at client-ready standard.
Skills you'll be able to demonstrate
These are things you can speak to directly in an interview or on your profile after completing the program — grounded in the work you produced, not a syllabus you covered.
Problem Structuring
Breaking a complex business question into manageable parts — MECE thinking, issue trees, and hypothesis-led investigation applied to a real mandate.
Market Research
Designing a research approach, gathering secondary data, and synthesising findings into a coherent intelligence base that supports a strategic recommendation.
Structured Communication
Organising a consulting recommendation — storyline logic, one idea per slide, executive summary, and the visual hierarchy that makes complex findings legible to a senior audience.
Competitive Intelligence
Mapping a competitive landscape, identifying positioning gaps, and translating market signals into strategic implications that directly inform the recommendation.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Working in a distributed group across time zones — managing async communication, coordinating workstreams, and producing a coherent shared output under a structured deadline.
Business Case Thinking
Connecting analysis to commercial logic — what does this recommendation mean for revenue, cost, or competitive position, and how do you make that case to a decision-maker.
This domain is built for three kinds of people
The domain attracts people aiming at consulting roles — and people from adjacent fields building the analytical toolkit that strategy work demands.
Pre-interview project experience in consulting
You are case-prepping for consulting roles and need something concrete beyond coursework — a real project you designed, analysed, and presented, not a hypothetical you worked through alone.
Building the consulting toolkit from a technical base
You bring quantitative depth — now you need the structured communication and strategic framing that consulting roles require. This program is where you build that layer in a group context.
Testing a move into strategy before committing
You are considering a pivot into consulting or internal strategy. Four weeks in the actual work — before making a full commitment — gives you clarity on fit and a concrete example to lead with.
What they said, after completing
From the completion survey — unedited.
As team coordinator, I led a group where none of us initially had real background in the area we were working on. Despite starting from almost nothing, we gradually learned, questioned, and built ideas together until we produced a well-structured market entry strategy.
This gave me hands-on experience with a real consulting project, which helped me make clearer career decisions. Spending four weeks in the role I wanted to pursue let me truly understand the work and evaluate if it was the right fit.
Through this program I learned how to translate abstract thinking into structured analysis and real decision-making. The work was deliberately process-driven — we had to justify assumptions, document reasoning, and explain not just what we did, but why.
Ready to think like a consultant?
Applications for the next cohort are reviewed on a rolling basis. Earlier submissions receive more considered review.