Hi David:

This is a great forum for thinking out loud, and thank you for doing so.

I'm rooting for you to succeed as you enter this field. I don't really view anyone in the leadership field as a competitor, but rather as a peer and/or colleague. There is plenty of market demand, and plenty of need for forward thinking professionals looking to make a difference.

You bring up an interesting question as a new entrant into the leadership advisor space - how does one go about establishing their practice amongst all the noise? In talking with others who have been at this a while, we are mostly in agreement that there are too many qualified advisors struggling while too many who lack depth, but happen to be savvy marketers seem to be prospering. While this inverted relationship tends to give the industry a bit of a black-eye in the near-term, the good news is that it also serves as a macro-economic warning sign that a weeding-out process is looming in the future.

While we're waiting for the needed consolidation mentioned above to occur, it's worth noting that the problem isn't with a lack of accessible knowledge from qualified advisors when it comes to leadership, but rather confusion as to where to find it. You see, it is those practicing in our space without said knowledge that create confusion for those in desperate need of it.

I'm thankful to Mike Henry for creating a forum such as this where we can help one another work through some of the issues being discussed in this thread.

Thanks for your candor David.