Client Delivery

Practice Growth

The Right Way to Send (and Follow Up on) Proposals

Apr 28, 2026

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3 min read

The Right Way to Send (and Follow Up on) Proposals

The 5-step follow-up sequence that gets responses.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Apr 21, 2026

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7 min read

Solve Any Problem in Four Steps

MBB use a tested framework to solve strategic problems. We're showing you how they do it.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Consultant's Guide to Reading the Board Room

Apr 7, 2026

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5 min read

Consultant's Guide to Reading the Board Room

As a consultant, your job is to translate what the board said into what the board meant. We'll show you how to do it.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Jul 8, 2025

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11 min read

Finding Your Flow State

Susie deVille shares the tools and rituals that help teams collaborate, take risks, and stay energized – insights you can bring straight into your client work or your own practice.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Jun 17, 2025

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8 min read

Land and Expand

Yes, you can land clients without immediately selling something. How? Kristi Gaudioso does it by offering insights first.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

May 20, 2025

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12 min read

Power of Pricing

Pricing isn’t just a problem for the finance team. Regardless of your niche, pricing decisions impact you – and you can impact them.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Jan 28, 2025

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12 min read

Navigating Steering Committees

Here’s how I approach defining the client’s SteerCo – and how you can do it, too.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Jan 21, 2025

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10 min read

Steering Success

There’s a pattern you can use to make SteerCo meetings more successful than the last. We discuss it in a special podcast episode - with me as the guest this time.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Achieving Success in New Client Engagements

Jan 14, 2025

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24 min read

Achieving Success in New Client Engagements

This playbook is your guide to navigating early challenges and accelerating your impact from day one.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Oct 29, 2024

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10 min read

Make the Most Out of Your Client’s Team

I created the Technique x Speed Matrix to help clients achieve results with diverse and high-performing teams. See how it works.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Practice Growth

Oct 8, 2024

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2 min read

How to Structure Your Pricing

Are you charging the right rate for your services? This is a common concern from indies and fractionals. After working independently for over ten years, here’s my general guidance.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Sep 24, 2024

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11 min read

Your Basic Guide to Pricing Models

A 10,000-foot view of pricing models can help you review the basics. Consider this your cheat sheet to help your clients evaluate pricing models.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Sep 10, 2024

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12 min read

How to Transform Product Portfolios

Kris Hardy helps enterprise tech companies transform their portfolios. Her approach is something you don’t want to miss.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Sep 4, 2024

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7 min read

The Magic of Pareto Principle

The cumulative framework is a bread-and-butter visual for many consultants. And it got me thinking more deeply about how and when I’ve used it, and more importantly – why it’s so powerful.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Aug 27, 2024

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4 min read

The Cumulative Chart.

Use it to find the fix for your strategic problems.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Aug 6, 2024

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5 min read

Excellence in Expectations

Take note of these five tips and do the best consulting job you can time and time again.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Jul 30, 2024

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4 min read

Workshops That Work

Ready to upgrade your online workshop from good to great?

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Jul 23, 2024

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5 min read

My Top 5 Quantitative Frameworks

A picture is worth a thousand words. And you explain your points better when you use different charts to visualize your insights.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Jul 2, 2024

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5 min read

The Science of Problem Solving

Check out our strategy visualization charts - and the foolproof process of problem solving.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

Jun 25, 2024

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5 min read

The Five Whys

The Five Whys is a well-known problem-solving tool. Here's how (and when) to use it.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Jun 11, 2024

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6 min read

How to Meet Anyone

Katie McCormick Lelyveld's superpower is that she could get a meeting with anyone. In this issue, she teaches us how.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Jun 4, 2024

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5 min read

How to Use a Strategy House

This framework is complete with everything the project needs – strategic objectives, key levers, enabling capabilities, and foundational people.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Apr 30, 2024

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5 min read

How to Make a Driver Tree in Excel

The infinitely useful Decision Tree, previously brought to you in our PPTX template. Prefer Excel? We’ve got the hook-up.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Mar 26, 2024

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2 min read

Be a Squirrel That Gets The Nut

Dana Heger teaches us how to work yourself out of a job - very useful if you feel it's time to move on.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Profiles

Feb 13, 2024

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8 min read

Work the People as Hard as the Problem

Troy Ruemping shares one of his secrets to success in consulting - to act as a guide, helping clients navigate to a solution, always in service of outcome.

Lauren Wambold Patel

Client Delivery

The Right Way to Send (and Follow Up on) Proposals

Solve Any Problem in Four Steps

Consultant's Guide to Reading the Board Room

Finding Your Flow State

Land and Expand

Power of Pricing

Navigating Steering Committees

Steering Success

Achieving Success in New Client Engagements

Make the Most Out of Your Client’s Team

How to Structure Your Pricing

Your Basic Guide to Pricing Models

How to Transform Product Portfolios

The Magic of Pareto Principle

The Cumulative Chart.

Excellence in Expectations

Workshops That Work

My Top 5 Quantitative Frameworks

The Science of Problem Solving

The Five Whys

How to Meet Anyone

How to Use a Strategy House

How to Make a Driver Tree in Excel

Be a Squirrel That Gets The Nut

Work the People as Hard as the Problem

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