You have to drive your career forwards. Your firm won’t do that for you.
Start building your partner-ready skills today
Join Progress to Partner Academy to start thinking, feeling & acting like a partner and build your “partner-ready” skills
Stop waiting to be noticed for career development courses by your firm.
Take control of your own career development.
Make the firm notice you! You will get the skills and knowledge about what the partners are really looking for when you join Progress to Partner Academy.
On-demand career help and guidance
When you join Progress to Partner Academy you will be able to find what need to watch or read at the time you need it.
You will have everything you need to know about getting ahead in your career in professional services!
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Watch our Quick Win videos when you only have a few minutes but need some guidance
Premium members can join our monthly live Lunch & Learn Workshops at no extra charge AND can catch up on the recordings at a later date.
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Quick Win: Career Progression
Director – Deloitte UK
This is the best resource I have found that really understand the challenges of being in a Big 4. It’s a very rich resource, and the game plans help you decide where to get started.
Trying to progress your career in your firm is hard! If you are asking yourself…
What exactly are the partners looking for? And just what is the process to get promoted?
How am I meant to hit my billable hours target AND find the time to win my own clients and build a team?
How big does my client portfolio need to be to get onto Partner Track?
How on earth can I get out from under my partners’ shadow to win my own work and get noticed?
Progress to Partner Academy will be by your side, answering all these questions and giving you the confidence and skills you need to get your career moving in your firm
Progress to Partner Academy membership will give you online access to 14 self-study courses, short & longer videos packed full of advice and knowledge about how to find the time to work on your career, how to focus on what really matters to the partners in your firm, even when you have to hit your billable hours!
It’s tough to hear, but simply keeping your head down and working hard won’t get you noticed!
You have to drive your career forward. Your firm won’t do that for you. Your partners will not be thinking about your career 24/7.
If you want to make partner you need to DO SOMETHING actively. It’s not going to land on your lap!
Making partner is not just another promotion. You don’t deserve it just because you are achieving your billable hours targets or have been with a firm for a number of years. You need to prove to your partners that you are already acting at that level before you will get promoted or admitted to the partnership.
My Progress to Partner academy members know exactly where they need to focus to get noticed as partner-material each day, week and month of their career.
Isn’t it about time that you did?
The training & advice you won’t get from your firm is yours when you join my online Progress to Partner Academy.
Our members learn what it takes to get noticed as “one to watch” & are supported along the way.
Thomas – Germany
I I joined the Progress To Partner Academy on an impulse, thinking that I only needed a month of membership. I then realised it was really helpful and would be a member for much longer than a month. So I converted my monthly premium annual membership to an annual premium membership
You WON’T Get Noticed in Your Firm if you…
Keep your head down
Get the work done
Hope you get noticed
You have to drive your own career progression. Learn what it takes to get noticed as partner-ready in your firm. Don’t rely on hearsay and rumours!
Progress to Partner is the sister site of How to Make Partner -so can be confident that you are in good hands.
Click here to find out more about Heather Townsend, founder of Progress to Partner
Tax Director – UK
I would have been a career senior manager if I hadn’t signed up to Progress to Partner it seems so obvious now scary how little even the most senior managers in the firm understand how to make partner
If you’re sitting, waiting patiently to be noticed , you will end up being seen as “as safe pair of hands”.
It’s never too early to start preparing for partnership. It will take you years to master some of the skills and habits you need to become a partner at your firm. The earlier you start, the stronger candidate you will be. Buy your Premium membership for just £290 for 12 months here
If you are not yet a senior associate or manager – so much the better! You can use the Progress to Partner Academy to build up your “partner-ready” skills – the partners will notice a high-flying associate or manager who is already showing they know what skills are needed to make partner.
If you join and then decide it isn’t for you within 7 days, we will happily give you a full refund.
You will feel so much more confident when you know that you are working hard on the right things. The things that will get you noticed as someone to watch.
Progress to Partner is the sister-subscription site of How to Make Partner – so can be confident that you are in good hands.
Making the final step to Partner is HARD – Progress To Partner Academy can help
Progress to Partner – it’s the Membership “sister” site of How to Make Partner
Progress to Partner is our subscriber-only website that will give you the knowledge as well as the confidence and the time to make progress in your firm.
You will have checklists, guides, short recordings and self-study courses so that you can focus exactly where it’s needed each day, week and month of your career.
You can log-in to work through a self-study course module, read a guide, watch a video and steadily go through the workbooks in the Progress to Partner Academy.
You will have all the tools you need to be able to progress in your career.
You will get noticed! Your colleagues will be looking at you, getting ahead and wondering how you are doing it!
You’ll have everything you need right there, it’s like a “go faster” button for your career. You can stop searching the entire internet (and not finding what you need) Buy your Premium membership for just £290 for 12 months here If you join and then decide it isn’t for you within 7 days, we will happily give you a full refund.
Want to see how Progress to Partner Academy can help you with networking, winning work and building your client portfolio?
Why is Progress to Partner Academy the right choice for your Career Development?
Develop your partner-ready skills at every stage in your career
It’s never too early to start working to build your partner-ready skills. Progress to Partner Game Plans will guide you through the courses. recordings and guidebooks no matter where you are in your career.
Experienced coaches who have worked in professional service firms.
Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you get there, stay there.
Author of Poised for Partnership, The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking and co-author of How to Make Partner & Still Have a Life as well as The Go-To Expert, Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner in a professional service firm – and when you get there, stay there.
All our executive coaches have been training and supporting people like you in professional service firms for years. Meet our executive coaches here.
Is there a minimum membership length?
Premium Annual Members will have access to the Progress to Partner Academy for 12 months from the date you join. We will send a reminder email 30 days before your access expires and uou will have the opportunity to choose not to renew for a further 12 months.
If you join as a Premium flexible member, you will pay monthly and can cancel your subscription at any time on the Progress to Partner Dashboard. If you join and then decide it isn’t for you within 5 days, we will happily give you a full refund. Buy your Premium membership for just £290 for 12 months here
Do you guarantee I will get a promotion if I join?
We can’t guarantee that! The Progress to Partner Academy will give you the knowledge and skills you need to build your partner-ready skills and get noticed but you do need to put the work in to build your skills; reading our guides, watching our videos and working through the self-study courses. This isn’t a quick fix! An annual membership will allow you the time to build your skills slowly and steadily.
Make sure you also attend the Lunch & Learn Workshops (or watch the replays if you have Premium membership)
For even better results, don’t hesitate to schedule your private coaching sessions when needed (we have discounted coaching rates for our Premium members)
Will I be able to ask questions if I get stuck?
Of course! You can ask questions in our private subscriber-only Facebook Group or ask questions during our live Lunch & Learn workshops. We’re ready to help!
I would like to sign up more than one person in my firm for membership – can you offer a discount?
Let us know if you would like to sign up more than 5 people in your firm at the same time and we will be able to offer you a discount on their annual membership. Find out more about Progress to Partner for your firm here
How can we help you?
To discuss how our courses and Progress to Partner corporate membership can help your team to grow and develop professionally, please get in touch below.
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Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you get there, stay there. She regularly runs programmes to help fee earners take the step up to partner, and establish themselves as a new partner, for mid-tier law, accountancy and consultancy firms. It just so happens that she is rather good (and not really that modest either!) in helping individuals successfully market and sell themselves. Just the skills you need when you are aiming to grow your client portfolio AND make it to partner.
In fact, her clients have added over £1 million in fees to their client portfolio in the last year. Heather often works with private clients who want to drive their own career (regardless of the development options offered by their firm) via her Progress To Partner Academy. The Academy, site helps lawyers, accountants and consultants to:
She is the author of 6 books including ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘ (co-authored with Jo Larbie), ‘Poised for partnership‘, ‘The Financial Times guide to business networking‘ and ‘The Go-To Expert‘. Her books have sold over 20,000 copies globally and been translated into over 6 different languages and attracted over 200 five star reviews on Amazon.Her coaching style has been described as challenging, friendly but very supportive.
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