About CDI

What Is a Consultant?

In his book Flawless Consulting, Peter Block defines a consultant as “a person in a position to have some influence over an individual, group, or organization, but who has no direct power to make changes or implement programs.” Thus, a consultant is not just an expert who bestows expert advice on someone in order to solve their problem. A consultant can also be a trainer, facilitator or coach and can work inside or outside the organization being helped. 

CDI Is Unique In That It:

• Provides very practical and accessible, self-paced online courses
• That can be accessed from anywhere at any time
• With experienced faculty
• To provide learners the foundational, core knowledge and materials
• To build skills and materials in any consulting role – whether advising, facilitating, training or coaching – in for-profit, nonprofit or government organizations

In each course, you can use assessments to measure your learning before and after you complete the course. You get instructions through a concise, online video packed with practical, step-by-step instructions. You can pause and resume the video at any time. The video guides you to use step-by-step tools that you can immediately download to use and share with others.

You also access a portal with 1000s of online, free, supplemental resources related to your role. You use your private Learning Journal to document your ongoing learning and development. If you paid to enroll in any of the Certificate-Series of courses, then faculty share feedback to each Learning Journal you submit to your assigned faculty. CDI’s online Learning Management System keeps track of your activities and guides you through your learning step-by-step in CDI. 

We invite you to scan some of our courses and Certificates-Series from the links at the top of the page. We also invite you to scan examples of the types of past clients and also what some of our learners have had to say about their experiences with us. 

Share Support During Your Learning

Consider forming a small peer support or peer learning group. Here’s a time-tested, step-by-step procedure for doing that, Peer Learning Groups – Consultants Development Institute.