My friend Art? He’s a good guy! No… Seriously, art to me is the way we display or express concepts, emotions, or things. In what I do, art is used often. It’s the way concepts are illustrated and expressed to clients. A lot of what I do is conceptual and conversational. Depending on your level in an organization and the experience and skillsets at those levels, we need to display, express and/or present in different ways. It’s an artform to take those concepts and represent them well.

Science is more fact-based, and you can replicate it over and over. Accounting principles, the way we record accounting transactions and other types of transactions, there’s a science behind it. There’s a science behind the technology we use. There is also the intangible piece, behavioral science. That’s a big part of the job as a consultant. We rely on understanding the behavioral aspects of business. You have to look at the accounting and business concepts and figure out how they relate to a client’s business. Additionally, understanding the technology that exists to streamline processes and to be used by our clients to make their business more efficient and effective. When we’re consulting and trying to identify issues, the behavioral aspects play a critical role in our assessment and recommendations.