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Breakfast & BDM Ecosystem with Caroline O’Connor of Fourth Born & Matt Skipper of Mills & Reeve

Join fellow Business Development Managers from the B4 community as they share challenges, successes and advice with each other in the BDM Ecosystem Roundtable discussion at B4 HQ.

The session will be facilitated by Fourth Born’s Caroline O’Connor and special guest Matt Skipper, Head of Business Development at leading national law firm, Mills & Reeve. Matt and Caroline will share their top tips for BDM’s to expand their toolkits.

Brand yourself with purpose: elevate your network and make your mark

Matt will provide practical tips and tactics to use to help you develop your personal brand, both internally to support career growth and externally to build a reputation as a M&BD leader. Matt will talk through some live examples of where having a strong personal brand can support the corporate brand and how marketing and BD professionals can use this to elevate their profile and increase revenue for their business. We will focus on the following six key areas and you will take away practical actions from each:

  • Having purpose and personal objectives.
  • How a positive internal culture can help your journey.
  • Investing time now to develop networks for your future.
  • Building confidence by being more commercial.
  • Barriers to success and how to overcome them.
  • Why you should be using LinkedIn as your CRM system – this will include a focused session on:
  • Barriers to success and how to overcome them.
  • Profile
  • Comment and content strategy
  • Building networks
  • Effective follow up / staying in touch
  • Targeting
  • The do’s and don’ts
  • Sales navigator

    This event includes a light breakfast.

    Limited to 15 guests.

    B4 is supported by

    KingerleeSobell House logoJames White Sales SuccessJames White Sales SuccessBeard logoRoyal Cars logoHoliday Inn Oxford logoStorm Internet logoCherwell College Oxford logoOxford Brookes Business School logoBoardmanOxford Professional Consulting logoWellers logoBlake Morgan LLP logoAston and James Office Supplies logo