Consultants fill positions with responsibilities that are short term. You have to ask yourself whether you are in a position that bears saying in what will happ

Consultants fill positions with responsibilities that are short term. You have to ask yourself whether you are in a position that bears saying in what will happen from your long term viewpoint. If not then lobby the consultant to make it so e.g. by changes in operating model, creation of a Centre of Excellence etc. If there is a failure in hearing people ideas the presence of a consultant is as much a symptom as it is an opportunity.