Why we started a consulting club at La Salle
Consulting is one of the most popular destinations for business students. It's also one of the hardest doors to open: case interviews, structured problem solving and a way of presenting that nobody teaches you in first year.
At several Barcelona universities, students have clubs that close that gap. At La Salle Campus Barcelona we didn't have one. So with two other students, we started La Salle Consulting Association (LSCA).
What we're building
- Talks with people who do the job. Not recruitment pitches: what a week in consulting looks like and how they got in.
- The LSCA Consulting Academy. Three practical sessions: problem solving and issue trees; case interviews; data, Excel and slide storytelling.
- A case competition in May 2027. Teams of students work on a real company's brief and present to the people who wrote it.
What I've learned so far
Starting a club is a small company. There's a constitution to meet, a budget to justify, a recruitment funnel, interviews, and a content plan. The university asks for a strategic report with a concrete recruitment target, and "post on Instagram" doesn't count as a tactic. Fair enough.
The biggest lesson: people join a team, not an idea. Our pitch got much better once we stopped describing the club and started describing the first case they'd solve with us.
If you study at La Salle and any of this sounds like you, apply to LSCA. If you work in consulting and want to help students who are where you once were, I'd love to hear from you.
Ferran Teixidor Rubio is a Digital Business student at La Salle Campus Barcelona, co-founder of La Salle Consulting Association and Paythra, and builds AI systems for small teams. More about me.