Business Development Implementation for Lawyers, Consultants and Firms

Turn BD Into a System
That Drives Revenue

peakleap helps lawyers, consultants, and firms build the client development habits, commercial structures, and accountability rhythms that turn relationships into consistent work across your firm

  • Build repeatable BD habits across partners and future leaders
  • Activate existing relationships and hidden client opportunities
  • Reduce dependency on a small number of rainmakers

Professionals from these firms have gone through the Accelerator Program

Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Osborne Clarke
Lupp + Partner
Copenhagen Economics
Brunswick
Taylor Wessing

And many more we're proud to work with!

The Challenge
Rainmaker dependency

Too much growth depends on too few people

Relationships, reputation, and new work sit with a few partners. The rest of the firm's commercial potential goes unactivated.

The Accelerator activates BD capability across your team

Hidden client opportunity

Existing client opportunities stay hidden

Relationships aren't consistently mapped, followed up, or developed. Revenue sits inside the firm, undiscovered and undeveloped, because there is no structured system to find and progress it.

The Accelerator maps and activates your priority relationships

Training vs. implementation

Training creates awareness, while implementation creates results

Without structured follow-through, accountability, and real client application, workshop learning evaporates within weeks. The intent is there, but the system isn't.

peakleap combines training, execution, and embedding

Core offer

The peakleap
Accelerator Program

A business development implementation program for lawyers, consultants, and firms. Structured into a 6-month journey, inside a 12-month development ecosystem, that turns commercial intent into repeatable action.

Partners and senior professionals who want to build a more consistent business development rhythm

Future partners preparing for commercial responsibility

Business development and L&D leaders embedding BD capability across the firm

Managing partners who want to reduce dependency on a small number of rainmakers

Also available to individuals: professionals can join an open cohort.

Typical training
peakleap Accelerator
Duration & structure
One-off workshop or short series
6-month implementation journey inside a 12-month ecosystem
Application
Generic examples and hypotheticals
Real client relationships and live opportunities from week one
Accountability
Individual attendance only
Peer accountability, implementation reviews, documented progress
Output
Slides, workbook, motivation
BD plan, relationship map, opportunity pipeline, outreach cadence
Post-program
No follow-up or support
Expert Insights, community access, platform and Membership option
01

Opportunity Engine

Map your network, identify dormant relationships, and design a weekly outreach rhythm you can activate immediately.

02

Business Development Planning

Build a personal planning canvas connecting your goals to a specific audience. Leave with an individual Business Development Plan.

03

Client Decision Psychology

Understand where clients are in their decision journey and apply influence approaches that build trust, not pressure.

04

Difficult Conversations

Handling high-stakes conversations with confidence and clarity. It covers fee increases and asking for referrals in a way that strengthens client relationships.

05

Opportunity Conversations

Structure your message clearly, lead stronger client conversations, and move opportunities forward with confidence.

06

Dealing with Rejection

Stay steady through silence, pushback, and lost pitches – and keep your commercial momentum intact.

Months 1–6

Core Journey

Live workshops, implementation reviews, peer accountability, and real client application.

Months 7–12

Development Ecosystem

Monthly Expert Insights, platform access, continued community, and FITI PRM for relationship tracking.

Post-program

Membership

Full program library, monthly Expert Insights on demand, BD tools and plan, continued community access.

The Methodology

From training to implementation to measurable commercial behavior

The LEVERS Method is the backbone of the Accelerator Program. It is a step-by-step framework for building business development capability inside professional service firms. It moves participants from clear positioning to real client conversations, consistent habits, and long-term commercial impact.

L

Lead

Define your market position and identify where business development should focus: the right clients, relationships, and opportunities.

E

Establish

Build the habits and structures that make business development consistent, even when client work gets busy.

V

Validate

Apply the framework to real clients and live opportunities, so participants test the work in the situations that matter.

E

Execute

Lead client conversations and develop opportunities with structure, confidence, and clear follow-through.

R

Replicate

Spread the system across the team and move from individual business development capability to firm-wide commercial behavior.

S

Scale

Embed commercial behavior into firm operations permanently, so the system outlasts the program.

The LEVERS Method: powering the peakleap Accelerator Program

Why peakleap

Not a training company. An implementation partner.

peakleap exists because training alone rarely changes how business development works inside a firm. Professionals may leave a workshop motivated. Then client work takes over, follow-up slips, and old habits return.

The Accelerator is built differently. We stay involved through implementation phases, accountability reviews, real client application, and clear follow-through until business development becomes part of how people work.

That is the difference between attending training and building a system.

Professional services teams working, learning and collaborating
01

Built for professional services

We work with lawyers, consultants, and professional service firms where growth depends on trust, relationships, and expert credibility. Every method, workshop, and framework is shaped around how these businesses win work.

02

Built for Execution

We stay involved after the workshop. Implementation reviews, coaching, real client application, and follow-through help professionals turn business development from an idea into a working rhythm.

03

Structured through the LEVERS Method

Our proprietary framework gives professionals a clear path for building business development capability: define the focus, build the rhythm, test it with real clients, repeat what works, and scale it across the firm.

04

Measured by commercial progress

The main question is what changes after the session. We look at relationship mapping, outreach rhythm, client conversations, follow-through, opportunities surfaced, and pipeline quality.

05

Firm cohorts and individual access

Firms can run a private Accelerator cohort for a practice group, office, leadership group, or wider team. Individual professionals can also join open cohorts when available. The same system works at both levels.

Built by peakleap

FITI PRM the relationship execution layer

FITI PRM supports the Accelerator as the relationship execution layer. It helps participants document, track, and build on the relationship activity generated during the program. FITI works alongside your firm's CRM, making the data more complete, more current, and more commercially useful.

Explore FITI PRM
Relationship execution flow
Accelerator

Relationship activity

Real client conversations, outreach, and relationship development.

Execution layer

FITI PRM

Keeps relationship activity structured and actionable.

Document Track Build on it
Existing firm system

Firm CRM

FITI works alongside your firm's CRM rather than replacing it.

More complete More current More commercially useful
Proof

Success Stories

We work with professional service firms of all sizes, from boutique teams to large international firms. Our programs support partners, senior professionals, and future leaders in building commercial clarity, confidence, and structure.

MBA Candidate, Former Partner
The strategies I learned from peakleap have transformed my professional path, allowing me to confidently generate opportunities and become a recognized leader.
Counsel, Leading Law Firm
peakleap provided clear, practical strategies that significantly improved our approach to attracting new clients and developing leaders within our firm. It's an essential resource for any firm serious about impactful growth.
Consulting Services

Additional support when the system needs more than a program

Some firms need strategic clarity, client insight, senior leadership capacity, or stronger people systems around their business development. Our consulting services extend the Accelerator's impact or stand alone when the situation calls for it.

People Development

People Development

Build the leadership behaviors, client-facing confidence, and commercial habits that help your firm grow from the inside and prepare future partners for commercial responsibility.

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Recruitment & Retention

Recruitment & Retention

Losing high-potential people means losing client knowledge, future leadership, and commercial capacity. Build the development paths and employer positioning that attract and retain the professionals your firm needs to grow.

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Strategy Consulting

Strategy Consulting

Turn firm ambition into clear commercial priorities and a practical execution rhythm. We help teams define where growth should come from, what to focus on first, and how to keep progress moving.

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Fractional Leadership

Fractional Executive Leadership

Senior BD, strategy, or marketing leadership on a fractional basis. The commercial capability of a full-time executive at the right scale for where your firm is now.

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Next step

Ready to make business development more consistent across your firm?

A 30-minute conversation is enough to understand whether the Accelerator is the right fit and what it would take to run it inside your firm. No pitch deck. No pressure.

For firms, managing partners, practice heads, and BD leaders.