The article presents information on consulting and training in the business world. The author says that with any successful career comes increasing job responsibility, organizational accountability, and demands on your professional skills. Fewer calls are for canned, off-the-shelf training programs. There's more demand for HRD practitioners who can act as content experts, process consultants, and developers of customized training packages. Members of our profession are involved in every kind of work imaginable from business mission development and strategy execution, to Six Sigma initiatives, e-learning, executive coaching, and IT implementation. For some people, the need to toggle among those different professional roles and to work on all organizational levels can be stressful, even onerous. But in reality, for most HRD practitioners these days, especially if they want to guarantee their upward professional mobility role flexibility is especially critical if one wants to be an independent consultant.