Win more new business

with less effort
 
Win the toughest clients. Survive the roughest Q&A sessions. Beat your strongest competitors. Delight your top management. And look, talk, and act like a new business superstar.
 
The secret: knowing how to see, and speak to, the opportunities in every pitch situation. Just as multiple images lie hidden in the illusion above (do you see two facial profiles, or one vase?), unseen pitch-winning opportunities are everywhere along the path to presentation... right up until the client signs the contract. NeoCortex helps your pitch team members learn how to re-frame their own thinking to see these opportunities, and respond effectively—even in the heat of audience challenges and tough questions.
 
NeoCortex is your one expert source to help you prepare a powerful pitch strategy, write a concise and compelling deck, rehearse a winning presentation—and bring in the high-revenue new business your firm needs to sustain growth.
 
We help CEOs, top executives, and pitch teams not only master pitch fundamentals, but also add new authenticity, chemistry, and passion to new business presentations. Today’s clients want a human-to-human experience that engages and moves them, delivered with passion and truth by the actual team they’ll be working with. Our work with your team results in pitches that powerfully address these client concerns... pitches that show and tell compelling stories... pitches that win you high-revenue business.
 
 
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Anxious about pitching? Or concerned that key members of your pitch crew lack strong presentation skills? Looking for a resource that can help? Come to NeoCortex Consulting Group.
 
We specialize in new business presentations for marketing communications firms, especially in health care. We work with everyone from CEOs, creative directors, and CFOs to interactive strategists, planners, account executives, and creative teams. So you’re assured of relevant, practical coaching that translates into effective presentations and new business wins. We know the challenges your team faces—we’ve faced them ourselves, in advertising agencies, PR firms, interactive agencies, education companies, and other work situations like theirs.
 
Importantly, our approach to training helps your executive presenters gain insights in real time about your audiences—right while they’re presenting. Your presenters learn to hear their audiences, and themselves, in new ways that help them connect and convince. This leads to lasting, long-term improvements in presentation skill. including reduced anxiety, improved clarity, elimination of distracting habits, and improvements in eye contact, vocal projection/inflection, and use of visual aids. And it helps teams understand and apply the value of presentation graphics that provide a minimum of distractions with a maximum of presenter support.
 
 
Jane Parker President, Interbrand Wood “Rob Buccino developed an approach to pitch presentations that has created a significant competitive edge within the industry.” Lena Chow President, City of Paris, Inc. “Rob Buccino is an incredible strategist and a dazzling creative at the same time. I attribute this to his insight — into issues and people — which comes from a combination of experience, perspective and, importantly in a work situation, his empathy.” Mike Lazur Managing Partner, LHG Partners “In this world of hard, economic times where many smart people are leaving the business in flocks, it’s getting harder and harder to find bright, imaginative and experienced folk who have the goods to come through in a pinch. Rob is one of them. He not only processes the strategic talent necessary for success, but he delivers these same insights with decisive on-the-money brilliant creativity…and without the ego we have learned to equate with greatness. In fact, his attitude spews helpfulness… always with gestures of good will. While most people want to know what’s in it for me, Rob wants to know what’s in it for you..” Stuart Klein EVP General Mgr, Lowe Alchemy “Rob brings a unique combination of strategic insight and process improvement to an agency's new business process that is unparalleled in my experience of over 100 pitches across three different agencies.” Andy Moore Partner/Creative Director, Infranco Moore Group “Don't work with NeoCortex. Rob Buccino is too smart. Your staff will be jealous of his market knowledge, quick grasp of the challenge, and creative solutions. Furthermore, you may be a competitor to my firm and I'd hate for you to get an advantage.” Michele Hush ex-VP, Director of New Business Communication, Grey Worldwide “During Rob's tenure at Grey Healthcare Group and mine at Grey Worldwide, we worked together on many complex, demanding projects. He is a consummate business development professional — writer, manager, advisor, peacemaker — who earned the respect of everyone he came in contact with.” Steve Corwin EVP, Director of Client Services, Kane & Finkel “Rob is great to have on the team at that critical but often-congested intersection of Strategy/Creative/Ideation/Staging—alleviating the grid lock and getting everyone moving toward a successful on-time arrival.”
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