CrackerJack Consulting Podcast
Episodes
Growing Your Consulting Firm Via Geographic Expansion with Kelllen Smith
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While many consulting firms serve clients in locations that span a country or even the entire globe, focusing your firm on a narrow geography--even on...
How Do You Stay Ahead of the Curve
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you continue to innovate so that your firm becomes increasingly valuable to your clients? To answer that question, I turned to Charles Mauro sh...
How to Enter and Succeed in a Field Where You Don't Have Deep Expertise (Yet)
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If your target market is no longer buying, your firm may have to pivot. Great idea in theory, but how do you do it? Zo Ratansi, founder of Sixsense St...
How to Manage Through Up and Down Revenue Cycles
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your consulting firm may be enjoying a banner year. Or, you may be trying to climb out of a revenue dip. Or perhaps you're somewhere in between on the...
Adding Software to Your Consulting Firm's Offerings
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Consulting firms frequently view software products as the holy grail. They're infinitely scalable revenue streams that don't require any labor (or at ...
How to Win the Battle Against Discount Staffing Firms
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More and more clients are turning to giant staffing firms for consulting capability. Firms like Graphite, BTG, Infosys, and Toptal present real compet...
How to Create Perfect Alignment Among Your Executive Team
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If your executive team consists of multiple people (e.g., practice leads, or functional heads) or you have multiple equity partners at your firm, it's...
Acquisitions, Integrations and Underperformers, Oh My!
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On your journey down the yellow brick road of consulting firm leadership, you've probably encountered the occasional result (or person or team, or pra...
How to Prevent Burnout at Your Consulting Firm
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Consultants work hard. Very hard. Sometimes too hard, especially when there's a spike in project demands and you have trouble finding talented people ...
Turning Around a Broken Culture
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ask any successful boutique consulting firm leader what the number one success factor was in building their firm, and they'll say, "culture." Great. B...
How to Scale Beyond The Original Founders
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scaling. That's a big topic which is on the mind of virtually every owner of a boutique consulting firm. How do you grow the firm and, especially, how...
An Easy Approach to Build Awareness of Your Boutique Consulting Firm
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most boutique consulting firms bemoan the paltry awareness of their firm compared to large, well-known consulting firms. You can, however, build very ...
How to Support Different Career Paths at Your Consulting Firm
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As you expand your consulting firm, you quickly find that some employees are good at delivery but don't have other, critical consulting skills. In par...
How to Elegantly Balance Individual and Team Performance in a Consulting Firm
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As soon as you have a team working at your consulting firm, you face the tension between individual and team performance. Individuals want to be rewar...
A Simple, Effective Method for Controlling Your Consulting Firm's Finances
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You know that to build your consulting firm, you need a handle on the vital signs that indicate how your firm is performing and where it's headed. Tha...
How Being Super, Laser Focused in a Niche Can Fuel Your Consulting Firm's Growth
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into one of the most important factors that separate successful boutique consulting firms from firms that work and try hard but st...
Leveraging Culture as a Competitive Advantage
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If there's one topic that seems to come up in every conversation with a successful leader of a boutique consulting firm, it's the culture of their fir...