LeadForward: Fall Planning Cohort
It is planning season—market forecasts, BD plans, marketing campaigns, internal communications. As a Marketing leader, you’re juggling multiple priorities and high expectations.
What is LeadForward?
LeadForward: Fall Planning Cohort is a 3-month program designed to help you:
- Sharpen your market view with guided assessment and forecasting tools
- Elevate your plans for BD, marketing, and internal communication campaigns
- Gain peer insights from other senior AEC marketing leaders tackling similar challenges
Program Includes:
- Monthly cohort sessions for sharing strategies, tools, and solutions
- Action-focused resources tailored to the AEC industry’s fall planning cycle
- Peer accountability to keep your plans on track and ready for execution
Built off the success of our LeadForward Growth Planning Cohort, this focused and tactical 3 month program will support and guide you as you start and end planning season with your team.
READY TO MAKE 2025 YOUR MOST FOCUSED YEAR YET?
- When: September – November 2025
- Investment: $1,250
- Limited to 12 participants for a high-impact, collaborative experience
Resources
How to use the growth strategy matrix
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Navigating Market Shifts in the A/E/C Industry
Navigating market shifts in AEC has never been more critical. Some shifts come quietly, others make a lot of noise, but all of them create ripples that affect how firms do business. The key is not to avoid shifts, it’s to understand where they hit your business and...
Go to Industry Research and Pulse Resources for AEC Marketing & Strategy
Market research can feel like a big, abstract concept, but at the end of the day, it’s about knowing where to look for the right insights. Over the years, I’ve built a go-to list of resources that I check regularly to understand market shifts, track competitor trends,...
From plan to practice: Making strategy stick inside your firm
Every January, firms roll out fresh strategies with fanfare. The PowerPoint decks are polished, the goals are inspiring, and leadership beams with optimism. By mid-year, reality sets in. Competing priorities creep in, teams lose focus, and the strategy becomes...
Start with vision. Stay with people. Grow with intention.
At The Flamingo Project, we’ve seen this moment happen over and over: a firm sets a bold vision, full of clarity and inspiration, and then stalls when it’s time to bring it to life. The culprit? It’s not the market. It’s not your team. It’s usually the missing link...
Growth Strategy in a Time of “What Now?”
Let’s face it: growth isn’t a straight line. It’s more like a tangle of spaghetti—especially in the AEC industry right now. Markets are jittery. Federal funding is murky. Your principals are pulling in different directions, and “just go after everything” is starting...
Keep it simple: Visioning for 2025
February is a time for reflection at The Flamingo Project. We look back on the past year and cast a vision for what’s ahead. January often feels like a whirlwind of “new year, new you” energy, so we let the dust settle, find our footing, and then go. If you’re...
Fall Planning Resources
Here at The Flamingo Project, we LOVE to share generously, which is why we want to give you everything you need to finish out your planning season well! Ready to jump into business planning? If you know you're ready to get to it, check out our Business Planning...
Plans: Simplified and Defined
Every business relies on plans, but not all plans are created equal. From strategic and business plans to marketing, BD, or financial roadmaps, it’s easy to get lost in the jargon or try to do it all at once. Instead, we believe the key is to simplify, starting with...
New Year, New Technology
Unless your head’s been buried in the sand, you know that artificial intelligence (AI) has been in the limelight for good and bad reasons. One of the things that sets businesses apart is their ability to innovate which often means embracing new technology; In this case, AI. At The Flamingo Project, one of our core values is being curious. We also believe in sharing generously, which is why we want to help you understand how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help you win work differently.