The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting is a ready-made toolkit of ideas, methods, techniques, and models that assist and support your work as an organizational consultant. The materials provide a highly accessible means of interacting with a variety of systems and processes as diverse as collaborative work systems and executive coaching to strategic planning and organization development.

The book is divided into four sections: Experiential Learning Activities (ELAs), Editor's Choice, Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys, and Articles and Discussion Resources.

ELAs are the mainstay of the Annual and cover a broad range of consulting topics. The activities are presented as complete and ready-to-use designs for working with groups; facilitator instructions and all necessary handouts and participants materials are included.

Editor's Choice pieces are material that doesn't fit the other categories and take advantage of "hot topics."

Elaine Beich is the author of more than a dozen articles and books, including The Business of Consulting, Marketing and Selling Your Consulting Services, and The Consultant’s Quickstart Guide, all published by Pfeiffer. She is president and managing principal of ebb associates inc. and has consulted to a diverse range of industries including health care institutions, insurance, banking, and shipbuilding, manufacturing, and government, and nonprofit organizations.