September 28th, 2026 05:00 - 06:00 EDT
Some of the most valuable skills consultants develop have little to do with being a consultant. They're the skills professionals need to tackle ambiguous problems, quickly understand what matters, communicate recommendations with confidence, and influence decisions across an organization.
Join Alexandra Schmidt, strategy consultant, founder of Piz Advisory, and former Oliver Wyman consultant, for an interactive workshop exploring how to bring a consultant's mindset to your everyday work.
Rather than a lecture, this session is built around a live case. Alexandra will introduce two ideas that sit at the heart of how consultants work: hypothesis driven thinking, which means committing to a best guess early and then trying to disprove it, and the 80/20 rule applied properly, as a discipline for deciding what to ignore. You'll then put both to work on a real problem, breaking it apart with an issue tree, using a handful of numbers to eliminate most of the possible explanations, and building a recommendation you could defend in a meeting.
Drawing on her experience advising organizations across the Middle East and Europe, Alexandra will share practical approaches you can use to become a more strategic thinker and effective business leader, whether you work in consulting or simply want to think more like a consultant.
You'll learn how to:
Break complex, ambiguous business challenges into clear, manageable questions
Form a hypothesis early and test it, instead of gathering data and hoping an answer appears
Apply 80/20 to focus on the few things that explain most of the problem
Structure your thinking before jumping to solutions
Turn analysis into a clear, confident recommendation that leads to a decision
Whether you're interested in consulting, already work in an advisory role, or simply want to strengthen the way you solve problems and make decisions, you'll leave with a practical framework you can use on your own work the same week.