Future of Consulting Summit
Winning in the Age of AI, without the hype.
What is the Future of Consulting Summit?
The Future of Consulting Summit is a virtual event for independent consultants and boutique firm leaders who want to understand how artificial intelligence and data driven tools are reshaping the industry. Through forty five minute, 1 on 1 conversations with innovators and practitioners, the summit explores how consulting services, value propositions, and client expectations are evolving, and what smaller firms can do to remain competitive.
Featured Speakers
Speakers bring diverse perspectives and practical insights on consulting, AI, and strategies for driving growth in an evolving industry.
SPEAKER LINEUP and AGENDA
The Next Era of Consulting: Building Intelligent, Innovative Firms
Gerry Purcell, former BCG and Kearney Principal and now SVP, Strategy & Thought Leadership, Innovation360 Group AB, has seen consulting transform from slide decks and frameworks to intelligence-driven systems. His firm has been leveraging AI long before ChatGPT came on the scene. In this session, he takes us behind the scenes to show how his firm operates in this new era. Discover how consulting firms can foster a culture of innovation, embed AI into daily workflows, and adapt to how technology is reshaping knowledge services and client expectations.
The Future Economics of Consulting: Pricing, Profit, and Perception in the AI Era
Mark Stiving, PhD, Founder of Impact Pricing and author of Selling Value, is one of the world’s leading voices on pricing strategy. In this session, we will explore how AI is reshaping the economics of consulting, from cost structures and client expectations to how firms define and communicate value. Learn how to adapt your pricing strategy for the AI era, protect margins as delivery becomes faster, and rethink what clients are truly paying for.
Expanding Consulting’s Creative Frontier: How Generative AI Sparks New Possibilities
Saar Ben Attar, Managing Partner of Ascent Growth Partners in South Africa, explores how consulting is evolving beyond productivity to creativity. Drawing from work across emerging markets, he shares how his firm uses Generative AI not just to optimize workflows, but to expand thinking, accelerate scenario development, and help clients explore entirely new opportunity spaces. This session reveals how consultants can use AI as a partner in creative problem solving and strategy design, where human insight and machine intelligence truly meet.
AI for Thought Leaders: Rethinking How You Create, Publish, and Scale Content
Dan Sanchez, marketer, educator, and host of The AI Driven Marketer podcast, helps marketing teams figure out where AI fits and where it does not. In this session, he shares how thought leaders and consultants can rethink their creative process using AI. Discover practical ways to ideate, produce, and publish authentic content faster, and build a scalable system that amplifies your ideas, keeps your voice consistent, and helps your thought leadership reach further.
Trust in the AI Era: Rediscovering the Human Element That Technology Can’t Replace
Charles H. Green, author of The Trusted Advisor and Trust Based Selling, draws on two decades in management consulting and a lifetime of studying trust in business relationships. In this session, we will explore how trust really works, how AI is reshaping the context in which it is built, and what consultants must do to remain credible and human in a technology driven world. Expect timeless lessons, contrarian insights, and practical ways to strengthen your trustworthiness in the era ahead.
How to Build a Marketing Plan in One Day — Powered by AI
Chad Jardine, CEO and Founder of CMO Zen, has spent two decades helping service, tech, and manufacturing companies build marketing engines that actually drive growth. In this session, he shares a practical framework any consulting firm can apply to create a sharp, actionable marketing plan in just one day. Built on AI powered workflows, Chad’s approach helps consultants cut through complexity, focus on what truly drives visibility and demand, and turn planning into a fast, creative, and confidence building process.
The Under-Hyped Future: Why Smart Software Consultants Are Replacing Themselves with AI
Imran Bashir, a technology consultant specializing in AI and machine learning systems, believes AI is not over hyped, it is under hyped. In this session, he shares why most software consultants are underestimating what is coming and how he is preparing by building intelligent agents designed to replace parts of his own work. We will explore how AI is reshaping software consulting, what solo consultants can do to stay ahead, and why embracing disruption may be the smartest move of all.
The New Consulting Engine: How AI Is Transforming Operations and Delivery
Murray Joslin, Executive Vice President of Global Creative and Business Solutions at Integreon, partners with the world’s top consulting firms to power their delivery operations. In this session, we will look under the hood of consulting’s delivery engine to see how AI is transforming how work truly gets done, from research and analytics to design, staffing, and knowledge management. We will explore how automation is leveling the playing field between large and boutique firms, reshaping collaboration between consultants and support teams, and redefining roles in a new, AI enabled talent model built for speed, creativity, and impact.
Building Trust at Scale: How Consultants Can Combine LinkedIn and AI for Smarter Growth
Brynne Tillman, co author of The LinkedIn Edge, New Sales Strategies for Unleashing the Power of LinkedIn and AI, helps professionals turn LinkedIn into a trust based growth system. In this session, she shares how consultants can overcome inconsistent outreach, low engagement, and generic automation by combining authentic relationship building with AI. Learn how to personalize at scale, create meaningful interactions, and use AI tools to sound like you, not a bot.
Turning IP into AI Assets: How a Traditional Consulting Firm Is Transitioning into the AI Era
David Brock, CEO of Partners in Excellence and author of Sales Manager Survival Guide, works with organizations from scale ups to the Fortune 500, focusing on Innovation, Transformation, Performance Excellence, and Leadership. In this talk he shows how a traditional consulting firm turns years of IP into reusable GPT tools for delivery and operations. Learn how to catalog and codify your firm’s knowledge with AI, decide what to automate versus keep human, and align assets, data, and delivery for measurable outcomes.
Exploring AI Agents in Consulting: Adapting Intelligence to How Firms Work
Pete Larkin, Senior Marketing Leader at Sawtooth and AI Consultant, explores the role of AI agents in consulting. As large firms begin experimenting with agents to support research, analysis, and operations, what could this mean for the consulting workflow? This session looks at how firms can thoughtfully adapt AI agents to enhance collaboration and value creation, and why embedding AI into shared systems, not just individual tools, could define the next phase of consulting performance.
Productize Your IP with No Code: Assessments, Diagnostics, Mini-Apps
Faheem Moosa demonstrates the Consulting IP Builder, a simple way to turn consulting frameworks into practical assets inside ChatGPT. In minutes, create assessments, diagnostics, and short step-by-step micro-courses you can use in client delivery or as a lead magnet to open new client conversations. Attendees receive the builder and ready-to-use templates. No code required.
Why This Summit Matters
Consulting has always been defined by human judgment. That principle will endure.
What is changing is how insights are generated, how services are delivered, and how clients measure value. AI is accelerating decision making, shifting pricing models, and altering team structures. For independents and boutiques, these changes present both risk and opportunity.
This summit focuses on how consultants can combine human expertise with AI to deliver meaningful outcomes and build future ready practices.
About the Host
Faheem Moosa, founder of Consulting Leap, is a former management consultant based in Toronto, Canada. Since 2019, he has helped independent consultants and boutique firms, including alumni of Boston Consulting Group, Accenture, Kearney, Deloitte, IBM, KPMG, EY, and Booz Allen, build consistent pipelines of clients and grow their businesses.
Prior to starting Consulting Leap, Faheem founded a strategic planning consulting firm, Springboarders, in 2009 and helped 150 plus organizations across Canada and the United States to shape their strategies and future direction. As a consultant he has worked with clients across 30 plus industries, including Generali, Research In Motion, and Canada Post, among others.
With 200 plus live sessions and webinars hosted on the topics of business growth and consulting, Faheem brings distinguished voices to the consulting community, inspiring consultants to embrace change and build thriving businesses.