Consulting & Business Strategy
Four weeks of structured project work in strategic analysis, market research, and business problem-solving — with a global team.
What you'll actually build
Every cohort runs one structured group project. Your team works through it together — no shortcuts, no pre-baked answers.
The Consulting & Strategy project is a structured advisory exercise set against a real business context — a market entry question, a competitive positioning challenge, or a strategic growth problem for a specific company or sector. You're not writing an essay. You're producing a recommendation.
You work in a team of 6–8 participants, organised across four workstreams that reflect how consulting firms actually structure engagements: problem definition, research, analysis, and presentation. Each workstream produces something the next depends on.
Progress is tracked across four structured phases, with a mid-program check-in and a final presentation. The work demands structured thinking — that's the point.
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Assess & Frame Define the problem scope, structure the question, map stakeholders
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Research & Analyse Build the evidence base, apply strategic frameworks, test hypotheses
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Synthesise & Recommend Draw conclusions, build the logic chain, stress-test the narrative
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Deliver & Present Final deck and presentation to the group — client-ready standard
Skills you'll be able to demonstrate
These aren't things you'll learn about — they're things you'll have done by the time you're done.
Problem Structuring
Breaking a complex question into manageable parts — MECE thinking, issue trees, and hypothesis-led investigation.
Market Research
Designing a research approach, gathering secondary data, and synthesising findings into a coherent intelligence base.
Slide Communication
Structuring a consulting deck — storyline logic, one idea per slide, executive summary, and visual hierarchy.
Competitive Intelligence
Mapping a competitive landscape, identifying positioning gaps, and translating market signals into strategic implications.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Working with a distributed international team — async norms, shared accountability, and managing across time zones.
Business Case Thinking
Connecting analysis to commercial logic — what does this recommendation actually mean for revenue, cost, or risk?
This program is built for three kinds of people
The track attracts people aiming at consulting roles — and people from adjacent fields building the analytical toolkit that consulting demands.
Pre-interview project experience in consulting
You're case-prepping for MBB or tier-two consulting. This gives you a real project — not a hypothetical — to reference in interviews. Something you designed, analysed, and presented.
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 team context.
Testing a move into strategy before committing
You're considering a pivot into consulting or internal strategy. Four weeks in the 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. A sincere reminder that growth happens at the edge of your comfort zone.
Andrew BellasThis internship 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. A valuable trial-and-learn opportunity.
Sathvik KorideThrough this internship 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 we did it that way.
Michael KonigReady to think like a consultant?
Applications for the next cohort are reviewed on a rolling basis. Cohorts fill quickly — apply early.