Strategist vs. Consultant — What's the Difference?

A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy. Strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions.

A consultant (from Latin: consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as Expert, Specialist, see variations of meaning below) who provides advice and further purposeful activities in an area of specialization.

One who is skilled in strategy.

One who gives expert or professional advice.

A person who devises strategies.

One who consults another.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

A person or party that is consulted.

An expert in strategy (especially in warfare)

A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.

A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.

An expert who gives advice.

An expert who gives advice;