Due to its unique regional characteristics and a need for more direct and faster contacts with potential consumers of consulting services across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Association of business Consultants in BaH – LESPnet, is organized at two levels, the regional and the state one. The work on the ground is done by five regional coordinators managed by LESPnet Director/Coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo where the association is seated.

Its members, providing business-consulting services in various business sectors, and the LESPnet personnel, represent the LESPnet professional capacities.

Today LESPnet gathers 53 registered members employing over 80 highly educated economic and technical staff. LESPnet aims to become a synonym for quality in the sector of business-consulting services by applying top world expertise and practice in the sector of consulting and training of the LESPnet members, as well as by establishing a system of quality for the network members.

In order to ensure quality of work and to protect consumers of consulting services we have adopted:

- Rules of engagement for the LESPnet members
- LESPnet members' codex of professional conduct.
(in accordance with the FEACO codex)

According to adopted Regulations on grades of promotion program and way of passing professional exam for LESPnet members in order to achieve a higher grade in quality of consultant, the association has made a classification of its members to:

- Trainee Consultant
- Consultant
- Senior Consultant
- Leader Consultant
- Trainer Consultant

The classification of LESPnet members into one of above-mentioned categories is done on a basis of following criteria:

- Education,
- Experience in consulting business,
- Consulting service percentage share in annual income of the member
- References and appraisals.

LESPnet has adopted a principle of a constant advance training which defines a minimum number of hours per year for personal professional advancement of the LSEPnet members, which is a pre-condition for maintaining the grade of quality of each LESPnet member.

 

MINIMUM HOURS REQUIRED FOR PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Grade of quality	Organised by LESPnet	Other organizations	Total
Trainee Consultant	-	-	-
Consultant	35	35	70
Senior Consultant	25	25	50
Leader Consultant	20	20	40
Trainer Consultant	-	-	-

Through its education program for members of the LESPnet, rules of engagement of LESPnet members and codex of professional conduct, LESPnet aims to provide the best consulting expertise and practice in order to raise work professionalism and quality of legal consulting services to the top level.
By providing top quality service, LESPnet also aims to support development of private and public sector, the creation of new jobs and thus help reduce poverty and unemployment in the country. LESPnet strives to connect with networks linking the local market with markets abroad in order to help develop business relations between local and international companies.

Services provided to clients by LESPnet members include:

• Strategic planning,
• Leadership,
• Human resources management,
• Stock management,
• Financial consulting,
• Quality management,
• Company restructuring,
• Advising in the process of privatization,
• Marketing and market communication (sales promotion, market research, market planning),
• Management consulting,
• Business consulting,
• Import/Export (market connection),
• Media and public relations,
• Information technologies,
• Business audit,
• Accounting and other services,
• Financial and investment planning, and tax consulting,
• Creation of business plans and feasibility studies,
• Preparation of credit applications and project design,
• Preparation for registration of business activity,
• Legal services,
• Seminars for all business sectors,