2022 Business Development Institute:
Forging Your Business Development Strategy for the Post-Pandemic World
June 29, July 13, July 20, July 27, August 3, and August 10, 2022

Bringing together business development professionals to share innovative ideas and practices and different levels of perspective, for application within the Custom portion of Business Development within Executive Education or Professional Development outreach departments at universities around the world.
Benefits
As center and business development directors, we aim to provide products and services that differentiate our centers from our competition – we are always looking for a competitive advantage. What makes our centers stand out may be evident in the faculty and instructors we use, the niche markets we serve, our client list, or the distinctive programs we offer. A unique sales strategy, whether you have a dedicated sales staff or not, helps you play to your competitive advantage and confidently come up with solutions that effectively address both client and market needs. A systemic business development approach maximizes our center’s growth potential while meeting and exceeding customer expectations. But, how do we develop and refine our sales strategies? What if our current business development approach is no longer resulting in increased custom training revenue? What is working (or not) for other centers?
ProEd’s Business Development Institute can help you answer these questions and provide a clear and inspirational path forward. Live session leaders will pose questions, share ideas, and encourage the dialogue among participants. All session leaders have a background or preference towards a selling process, a specific prospecting skill, a desire to share what they know about the RFP process, significant success in creating proposals that sell, and also the ability to ask questions to their university customers in a way that shaped their success. They also will be confident in crossing over to the open-enrollment portion of the center to create more long-term clients, share in the process, and look for ways to extend the offerings of the center in different ways.
Agenda
June 29 (11:30 am-1 pm EDT) Moderator: Chuck Black
Come prepared to share your most successful business development ideas, strategies, tactics and discoveries in this opening session. In this opening session, we’ll get to know each other and, in the true spirit of ProEd/CMED we’ll share our unique successes and challenges in the business development arena. Prework: prepare a three- minute success story about your most impactful business ideas in business development.
July 13 (11:30 am-1 pm EDT) Moderators: Pam Tipton and Dan Rundhaug
In this session you will establish a common definition of business development for us to use in our discussions. Additionally, participants will explore the breadth of the business development opportunities and approaches used by our peers at other institutions.
July 20 (11:30 am – 1 pm EDT) Moderators: Dr. Dan McGurrin and Jen Renshaw
In this session participants will identify and explore the professional skills needed by professionals engaged in business development. The presenters will share their experiences in different institutions in order to provide a broad view of what is needed to be successful in generating revenue.
July 27 (11:30 am – 1 pm EDT) Moderators: Paul Slaggert and Carol Turchick
Your discussion will focus on how to broaden and deepen your client relationships. Understanding how you initiate and build client relationships also requires an understanding of how and when you interact with clients, what is their “life-cycle” or potential, and how strong or vulnerable are those relationships. You’ll discuss these and other key issues to help you better understand how to maximize your client relationships.
August 3 (11:30 am – 1 pm EDT) Moderators: Nick Tobey, Camilla Angelim, and Mike Gifford
It is critical to be able to offer new skills, concepts, models and approaches to your clients. Having a broad array of potential solutions adds to the value you provide. How do you learn what is available from your own faculty? When and how do you go outside your organization to get interesting and engaging content? How does a business developer become familiar with the products, services, and general content knowledge of the courses offered at the center?
- How do you make the decision to build or buy content (and talent)?
- How do you sell “Thought Leadership” to a customer or client?
- What are some of the financial considerations/models for using outside content?
- What are the political issues you need to navigate when thinking about buying content?
August 10 (111:30 am – 1 pm EDT) Moderator Chuck Black
- Define your business development “ladder” strategy to expand engagement through new channels.
- Describe and understand the different types of modalities that you now have in front of you as tools to become a business developer?
- How do assessments, simulations, coaching and interactive platforms fit into the understanding and ladder development that we earlier in class?
*Session topics, their order and other program parameters are subject to change
Who Attends
This program is designed for people responsible for developing and implementing sales strategies for non-degree business, professional, and executive education centers at universities. This usually includes executive education units in business schools, management or professional development units within continuing education schools, or stand-alone entities reporting directly to a dean or other high level administrator. In most cases, attendees have titles that include Assistant Dean, Director, Executive Director, Custom Program Director or Business Development Manager. They all have the common challenge of creating revenue-generating custom engagements and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with organizations. Their centers serve the business community by offering custom training engagements, consortia programs and/or open enrollment programs.
If this sounds like you, please join us for this 6-week institute to examine your current sales and strategy model, explore the internal and external factors influencing your success, and discuss sales strategy development options.
- Take advantage of this opportunity to focus on the most critical aspects of the success of your unit
- Get diverse perspectives and ideas from trusted colleagues facing the same challenges
- Develop a network of peer mentors
- Return to your team ready to share ideas and implement your own sales strategy and customer engagement model
Facilitators:
Camila Angelim, Assistant Director of Business Development, University of Denver Daniels Executive Education
Chuck Black, Director of Custom Corporate Solutions and Business Development, Weatherhead Executive Education, Case Western Reserve University
Mike Gifford, Associate Director, Executive Education, University of Utah
Eddie Isted, Account Executive, Executive Education, University of Victoria
Dan McGurrin, Retired Director, Executive Education, North Carolina State University
Dan Rundhaug, Executive Director, The Institute for Professional Excellence at Davenport University
Rony Shir, Assistant Dean and Executive Director, Executive Education at the University of Miami Herbert Business School
Paul Slaggert, Director of Open Enrollment Programs in Executive Education at the Kelley School of Business
Pam Tipton, Director of Executive Programs, Emory University
Nick Tobey, Executive Director, Executive Education, University of Oklahoma
Carol Turchick, Director of the Xavier Leadership Center at Xavier University in Cincinnati
Bonuses
Universities on the ProEd’s Collaborative Learning Platform
Athabasca University, Ball State University, Bay Path University, Belmont University, Boise State University, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, California State University – Sacramnento, Carleton University, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Columbia University, Curtin University, Davenport University, Drexel University, Duquesne University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida Atlantic University, George Mason University, Grand Valley State University, Indiana University, Kennesaw State University, Lehigh University, Loyola University – Chicago, Madison College, McGill University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Merrimack College, Michigan State University, Morgan State University, North Carolina State University, Northwestern University, Oklahoma State University, Penn State University, Portland State University, Rhode Island School of Design, Rollins College, Ryerson University, Saint Louis University, Santa Clara University, Southern Oregon University, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Temple University, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, The Camp, The Ohio State University, University at Buffalo, University of Arkansas, University of Calgary, University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine, University of Central Arkansas, University of Dayton, University of Denver, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Houston, University of Louisville, University of Miami, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Notre Dame, University of Pittsburgh, University of Richmond, University of San Francisco, University of Saskatchewan, University of South Australia, University of St. Thomas, University of Texas at El Paso, University of the Pacific, University of Utah, University of Victoria, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Utah State University, Vanderbilt University, Xavier University,
York University

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Per Person Fee:
$298 – from an Executive Member institution
$446 -from a Basic Member institution
$595 – from a Non-Member institution
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