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The Consultant’s Curse

Monday, July 31st, 2023 by Adrian Segar

The Consultant's Curse: illustration of a businesswoman standing at a microphone on a stage with an audience in the background. Standing next to her is a businessman with duct tape over his mouth.Though I’ve been a professional consultant of one kind or another for over forty years, I sometimes still fall victim to the Consultant’s Curse.

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Big influences on me at the time were WordPress’s WordCamps, which are also community/peer driven events, and Adrian Segar, who wrote the book on peer conferences: Conferences That Work.Founder of FinCon, an annual conference for 1,700+ financial bloggers PT Taylor
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