David
Alpert
Twenty-odd years in boardrooms taught him what the frameworks leave out. This is the book about that.
David Alpert is a technology transformation leader and former Group CTO. He lives in Hertfordshire, England, and is, by his own admission, still working on the ending.
Before the book
David Alpert spent his career in the rooms where technology decisions actually get made — first as an engineer, later as Group CTO, and now as a consultant who's seen the same mistake made in a dozen different accents. He's led transformations across cultures and continents, which taught him more about people than any operating model ever did.
He's an active Toastmaster, which is a polite way of saying he thinks hard about how a story is told, not just what it contains. That habit — of treating narrative as a discipline, not a garnish — is what eventually became The Inner Consultant.
He currently splits his time between advisory work and writing, and would like it on record that both are harder than they look from the outside.
The frameworks tell you what to do. Nobody writes the book about what to do when the room stops believing you.— from the introduction to The Inner Consultant
The Inner Consultant
Consultant
Not another transformation methodology. The Inner Consultant is about the internal discipline behind the frameworks — the part of the job that never makes it into the slide deck: staying credible when the plan changes, building trust fast with people who owe you nothing, and telling the truth about a project without losing the room.
Drawn from two decades of technology leadership and years of practising the craft of storytelling on a Toastmasters stage, it's written for anyone who has ever had to sell a room on change they can't yet prove will work.
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