Consulting firms provide feedback and actionable strategies to companies to improve their efficiency or solve complex problems in a specific area, such as advertising and technology. Company executives are often the ones who hire consultants to give them advice specific to their industry and organizational needs.

Consultants offer advice and expertise to client organisations to help them improve their business performance. Their work can focus on operations, strategy, management, IT, finance, marketing, HR and supply chain management across a wide range of industries and specialisms.

General management consulting, which concerns strategy, corporate finance, organization, environmental social and corporate governance, risk and compliance, and so forth. It entails questions that are relevant to the entirety of the client organization as a whole, on a management level.