ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the evolution of training for management consultants, an important and influential group within business and management circles that have had, and continue to enjoy, a disproportionate impact on the way that organisations function. The 1930 consultancy environment in Britain was still in an embryonic stage of development in terms of organised consultancy practices; it consisted of no more than twenty or thirty freelance consultants, a new British management consultancy called Harold Whitehead and Staff, and the Bedaux company itself. The chapter also describes a period in the history of management consulting in which there was a distinct movement towards specialisation in education and training for consultants, as well as at the same time a continuance of the previous mode of off-site training within the major British consultancies of the day. Unlike today when many consultants specialise in a particular industry, the concept of sector specialisation was not applied within Bedaux at that time.
