Do you know how to make partner in your firm?

If you’re a lawyer, accountant or consultant and you are ambitious to get noticed as partner material by the partners in your firm, this is the place for you.

Get ready to build your partner-ready skills – all the information you need is here! I’m Heather Townsend. I’m the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner. Welcome! Check out my blog, join my free live webinars, and take my Partnership Readiness Assessment. Find out how my Progress to Partner Academy can give you the time, skills and confidence to start demonstrating that you have the skills you need to make partner.

In other words, it’s time to stop watching others succeed and stop wondering what you need to do to get noticed for partner-track. You’re in the right place!

You can only take control of your own career development when you stop relying on rumours and you know exactly what to do to get noticed as “one to watch”.

How can we help you?

Accountants, Lawyers, Consultants and other professionals in practice trust How To Make Partner to progress their careers. Created by Heather Townsend (author of Poised for Partnership and co-author of How to Make Partner & Still have a Life), we are the leading global organisation solely dedicated to developing professionals to learn the skills needed to be successful in partnerships.

Why Choose Us

We help professionals in practice like you to make partner – and when they get there, stay there.

Lawyers, accountants, architects, surveyors and consultants. People just like you need and deserve career advice from people who understand exactly what it’s like, working in a professional service firm, with targets to meet and no time to work on your career.

You make sure your clients get the best advice, so why not get the best advice from the experts in helping you progress your career in professional services.

Clients

of our clients have now made it to partner

Members

of Progress To Partner from over 15 countries

Years of Helping Professionals

make it to partner in the top 6 accountancy firms, 20+ law firms from the UK top 100 law firms as well as 7 out of the top 10 consulting firms.

Lawyers, Accountants, Consultants

have trusted us and attended a virtual, hybrid or in-person event of ours in the last 10 years

How much would your career progress

free up some of your time to focus on doing the things that matter?

  • Learn how to delegate to your trusted group of juniors so you are confident the work will still get done in time
  • Create your own career development plan. A plan that you will actually use!
  • Come out of your partner’s shadow so you can grow your own partner-sized client portfolio and be seen as a rainmaker for your firm
  • Be seen as a true Go-To Expert both within your firm and externally, so work comes naturally to you… rather than you having to spend hours you haven’t got on business development
  • Grow your profile and reputation so your partners talk about you as ‘the next partner’
  • Demonstrate you think and act commercially so your partners are desperate to have you around the partnership table

Progress To Partner Academy is full of self-paced courses, guides and videos all with one thing in mind. To help you reach partner. This isn’t generic “career progress” stuff. It’s specifically aimed at you if you’re working in a professional service firm.

Join and it’s like having a trusted colleague, a mentor and a coach all in one place! Join for just £290 +VAT for 12 months here (works about at about £30 a month – amazing value!)

  • Are you watching people in your firm who are not as technically proficient as you but who are progressing faster than you. Why are they getting promoted & not you?
  • Learn what you really need to be doing to get noticed. (it’s not meeting your targets and waiting to be picked). Take control of your own development and your career progression.
  • Progress to Partner Academy gives you access to my self–paced courses, guides, exclusive videos and discounted coaching to help you reach partner.
  • The Academy gives you a clear guidance you need to be noticed as partner material and progress to the top from your current role, without having to work harder or change who you are.
  • Need to up your networking/BD game? Work through:
  • How to Make Time for Business Development
  • How to Create a BD Plan
  • Get Confident on LinkedIN
  • How to Become the Go-To-Expert
  • Game Plan – How to Start Winning Clients when you don’t know where to start…
  • Nobody in the firm knows who you are? Work through:
  • Game Plan – I need Help to Raise my Profile
  • How to be on your A-Game every day
  • Feeling totally overwhelmed with it all? Work through:
  • I need help with… Mindset
  • I need help with…Plan
  • How to put together and use a Career Development Plan
  • Need to show that you’re “partner-ready”? Work through:
  • Course – Build a Cast-Iron Business Case for Partner
  • Course – Become known as the Go-to-Expert
  • Course – Excel as a Line Manager
  • Course – Create a Business Development Plan
  • I need help with… Partner Admissions
  • Find out more here: www.howtomakepartner.com/get-progress-to-partner

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