Advanced Consulting Skills

Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is the foundation of effective consulting. When you understand how you show up in different situations - your strengths, blind spots and triggers - you can lead with authenticity, build deeper client relationships and drive more meaningful change.

Lumina Spark

Advanced Consulting programs use the Lumina Spark personality assessment to provide deep insights into your three personas and 24 qualities. You'll discover what makes you effective, where you have hidden potential and what triggers your overextended behaviour.

Through practical frameworks like SCARF and thinking style analysis, you'll develop strategies to manage stress, stay in control and bring your best self to every client engagement.

What You'll Learn

Identify Your 24 Qualities

Learn how your key strengths, amplifications, hidden treasures, blind spots and paradoxes shape your consulting effectiveness.

Understand Your Three Personas

Discover how you show up as your authentic self, your adapted professional self and your stressed self through the Lumina Splash assessment.

Recognize Overextension Triggers

Master the SCARF framework to understand what triggers your overextended behaviour and how to manage stress proactively.

Build Self-Regulation Skills

Develop practical strategies to stay in control, manage pressure and maintain effectiveness under stress.

Enhance Client Impact

Use self-awareness to build deeper client relationships, increase credibility and drive more meaningful change.

Develop Authentic Leadership

Learn to lead with authenticity by understanding your thinking style and bringing your whole self to your consulting work.

The Three Personas Framework

Understanding yourself as a consultant requires recognizing that you operate in three distinct personas. The Lumina Spark assessment reveals how you show up in different contexts and pressures.

Underlying Persona

Your core, authentic self. Who you are when you're relaxed and not trying to be anything other than yourself.

Shows your fundamental qualities and natural tendencies

Everyday Persona

How you typically show up in your professional and social world. Your adapted self that navigates daily life.

Shows how you present yourself to others

Overextended Persona

How you behave when stressed, under pressure, or overdoing things. Your unconscious, reactive self.

Shows patterns when you're out of control

SCARF: Understanding Your Triggers

The SCARF model identifies five key drivers that trigger overextended behaviour when threatened. Understanding these triggers helps you manage stress and maintain effectiveness.

Status

Do I feel valued?

Certainty

Am I in the loop?

Autonomy

Am I given choices and control?

Relatedness

Do I feel connected to others?

Fairness

Do I get the credit others do?