Speaking/Consulting
Speeches and Educational Programs:
- Is Consulting Right For You? Factors to Consider Before Making the Leap
- The Disappearing Full-Time Position: Launching Your Successful Portfolio Career
- Turning Negotiations Into an Organizational Core Competency
- Making Business Writing Less Awful: Exciting Your Key Audiences
These programs can be customized for length and audience. Please contact Peter Osborne for pricing and availability at peter at consultantlaunchpad dot com.
Peter Osborne (Bulldog Management Solutions LLC):
Mr. Osborne’s experience crosses a range of marketing and communications assignments in the credit card, financial services, and business journalism industries. He focuses on ensuring that the true value of a brand, product, or service is crystal-clear to the client’s target audience. He sharpens brand and strategic messages to improve RFP and negotiation “close ratios” and eliminate barriers to marketing success. He can help clients develop:
- Value-Focused RFP Responses
- Business Plans
- External Communications
- Presentations That Stick (including Sales Presentation Templates)
- Negotiation Strategies and Infrastructures (Deal Coaching)
- Customer Letters
He can also help clients prepare for media interviews and develop company-specific curriculum.
Mr. Osborne is also a subject-matter expert on the Credit CARD Act of 2009 and can work with collegiate clients (alumni associations, athletic departments, and universities) on their renewal strategies, identification of new revenue sources, comparison of peer affinity contracts, and present to their boards and staff on Peeling Back the Onion: The Collegiate Affinity Credit Card Market.
Michael Brown (StrategyMark Inc.):
Mr. Brown’s expertise in the esoteric world of specialty chemicals has given him a highly-respected reputation among Wall Street bankers and analysts. In addition to providing deep industry insight, he can provide an outlook on international macroeconomic conditions based on dynamics in the specialty chemicals industry. He tracks chemicals used in paints and coatings as a leading indicator regarding the uptick or decline of production in areas of the economy that include housing, autos, infrastructure, durable goods, and commercial real estate.
Brown gained his specialized knowledge of the industry and its unique marketing and business development practices through a 30-year career with leading chemical companies including DuPont, PPG, and Quaker Chemical. He regularly consults with Wall Street analysts, hedge fund managers, chemical producers, members of the media, and attorneys on specialty chemicals matters relating to business planning, strategy development, and competitive intelligence.
Michael Brown is available for interviews and speaking engagements upon request through Mary Caraccioli of Lions Roar Public Relations (mary@maryandmoney.com) at (646) 675-6444.
