Designed exclusively for those who spearhead their firm’s marketing and business development strategies, Pinnacle Learning is your gateway to advanced insights, strategies, and best practices. Whether you’re a CEO, CMO, director, principal, or vice president, this program empowers you to excel in your role as the “first chair”. Gain exclusive access to expert-led courses, practical resources, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities that elevate your skills and drive your firm’s success to new heights. Register for Pinnacle Learning today and unlock the knowledge and strategies you need to stay ahead. Your journey to professional excellence starts here.

As marketers and business developers, we know crafting a great proposal is more complicated than “just throwing a few things together.” Even if your firm has all the pieces in place like a go/no go filter, proposal process, updated templates, and a badass marketing team, each proposal can feel like a bumpy journey of cat herding and deadline stress.

Proposals should position your firm to win – they’re sales documents! It needs to persuade the reader that your firm is the best firm for that project. But this is often hard to do when our firm is just like our competitors. How do we truly find those differences, and then translate those into persuasive proposals?

Have you ever encountered staff members who just won't do what you need them to do? If you've faced this challenge, this course is here to help. This program is filled with surprising and thought-provoking insights into why non-compliant behavior occurs, along with practical strategies to achieve the desired behaviors within your organization.

Join Bolanle Williams-Olley, CFO of Mancini Duffy, in "The Crash Course to Mastering Budgets: From Planning to Performance," a dynamic session designed to enhance your budgeting skills. Perfect for creatives, managers, and financial enthusiasts, this course simplifies budget creation, monitoring, and adjustment processes. Bolanle's expert insights will transform your approach to budgeting – elevating it beyond mere numbers to making it a strategic and exciting component of your business strategic toolkit.

Email marketing is the kingpin when it comes to B2B lead conversion. It’s the steadfast companion that guides prospects through lengthy purchase cycles, but it’s gotten a bad rap over the years thanks to a flood of spam and cutthroat competition for people’s fleeting attention. In this session, Michelle Calcote King shares best practices for building and nurturing a strong email program that drives referrals.

Design is a communication tool and when we communicate, we tell stories. But are those stories unforgettable and high impact? Often, what’s missing from those stories is a clear narrative arc that connects and moves the audience. Making the emotional connection and demonstrating impact is what differentiates leaders and their work. Through a series of prompts and interactive exercises, participants will develop the seeds of unforgettable stories that will move and delight their audiences – whether they hope to reach an award jury or their next client. These tools to identify narrative will enable participants to develop winning proposals, pitches, and award submissions.

For many A/E/C professionals, business development isn’t the number-one priority. Project deliverables and deadlines, as well as the need to build business, never go away. Wouldn’t it be great to have additional resources to help provide insight, improve efficiency, and manage lead generation? Join us for our April webinar, where our presenter will equip business developers with the knowledge and tools needed to be more efficient. During this online session, discover how to effectively integrate AI into your BD strategy.