Turn Your Vision Into a Pitch That Inspires, Excites, and Delivers Results.
Learn how to articulate what makes your startup special, secure buy-in, and take your business to the next level—all in just 12 weeks.
Our Next Cohort Begins March 17th
The tools and confidence to nail every opportunity.
Too many startup founders struggle to communicate their big ideas effectively. They either get stuck in the technical details, focus too much on their product, or fail to translate their vision into a story others can connect with.
That’s why we created The Elevated Pitch—a 12-week program that gives you the tools, skills, and guidance to craft a compelling pitch that inspires action. Whether you’re building a team, securing funding, or selling your vision to customers, this course will help you master the art of clear, confident communication.
We'll show you how to translate your big vision into clear, compelling pitches that:
Capture attention
Learn to grab your audience from the first sentence and build momentum for your vision.
Secure buy-in
Craft a narrative that resonates with investors, partners, and potential customers.
Streamline growth
Set a powerful foundation for a clear direction, a focused team, and a smooth path to market success.
12 Weeks to Your Game-Changing Pitch
Each week, you’ll get expert instruction, practical tools, and the support of your cohort to refine your pitch and strategy in the areas that matter most.
Throughout the course, we'll cover:
Startup Foundations
Learn how to introduce your business with clarity and impact. Set the tone early by presenting your backstory and key details without getting bogged down in unnecessary details that lose your audience.
Setting the Scene
Learn how to introduce your business with clarity and impact. Set the tone early by presenting your backstory and key details without getting bogged down in unnecessary details that lose your audience.
Your Special Sauce
Showcase what makes your solution unique. What’s the secret, proprietary, or innovative element that sets you apart? Build excitement and buy-in around your unique value proposition.
Market Differentiation & Positioning
Explain how your solution gives you an edge. Clarify your strategy to dominate your market segment and why your approach creates an “unfair advantage” in your industry.
Numbers & Traction
Prove you’re onto something. Share your progress, results, and key metrics to back up your idea. Use numbers to illustrate momentum and the real business opportunity your solution represents.
Vision Casting
Paint a picture of the future. Inspire confidence and excitement by showing where your business is headed and why it’s a journey worth joining. Make your audience want to be part of your story.
Making The Ask
Master the art of asking. Whether it’s for investment, partnerships, or connections, learn how to confidently and effectively make your ask to maximize buy-in and support.
Walk away with a presentation-ready pitch that takes your startup to the next level.
Focus your message. Craft your pitch. Deliver with confidence.
What's included?
Your Elevated Pitch membership is more than just a course.
1. Weekly Coaching Cohort
Live, small-group coaching sessions with experts to tackle specific challenges, answer pressing questions, and get personalized guidance on your startup journey.
2. Founder Forum
A supportive online space to share challenges, exchange ideas, and build connections.
3. Expert Guest Sessions
Learn directly from industry leaders, successful founders, and investors.
4. Collaborative Pitch Clinics
Peer and expert feedback sessions to refine your pitch deck and presentation.
5. The Elevated Pitch 10-Slide Deck Template & Workbook
Hit the ground running with a playbook for a presentation-ready pitch and the prompts to make it your own.
The Elevated Pitch is different by design
Learn with Founders Like You
The Elevated Pitch is a collaborative group workshop—not an overpriced 1-on-1 with a single guru or a self-guided, one-size-fits-all
Put It in Action
Our content is designed to quickly move you from idea to action and get real results right now.
Get a Multi-lens Perspective
Learn from experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in brand strategy, product design, manufacturing, marketing, and startup growth
Build Your Network
Connect and collaborate with a community of founders just like you.
What people are saying
Meet the team
Clay Banks
Clay Banks has over 23 years of experience in starting, scaling, and leading innovative hardware and software companies. An 8-time startup founder, he's raised over $5M in capital, holds 3 patents, appeared on Shark Tank, and managed a $2M+ omni-channel brand. Clays expertise spans organizational design, e-commerce growth, and full-scale manufacturing.
Sarah Deane Hale
Sarah's career spans multiple industries – social justice, music, and corporate consulting. Still, the thread that ties it all together is her ability to see the big picture, identify key targets, and deliver a cohesive strategy. She brings her robust expertise to Luum's clients every day.
Jordan Short
Jordan is a visionary creative director, seasoned commercial artist, and empowering coach on a mission to unleash creativity. With over 15 years of experience, he crafts brand stories that truly connect. Jordan’s all about big-picture thinking, attention to detail, and making design magic happen.
Carl Wilson
Carl Wilson is a brand strategist and business coach with 15 years of experience in product design, innovation, and strategy. Leveraging a background in industrial design and human-centered design thinking, Carl specializes in helping visionary leaders break from the status quo and build innovative brands people love.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Elevated Pitch is 12 weeks of online group coaching sessions.
In addition to the weekly coaching sessions, you'll have access to our online community as well as pop-up events and guest speakers.
The Elevated Pitch was created with early-stage founders in mind. We know first-hand how challenging the early days (or years) of a new venture can be. It's easy to feel like you're spinning your wheels, stuck and unable to make real, tangible progress.
You want to see results, get feedback, and gain momentum and that's exactly what The Elevated Pitch is designed to help you do. It's never to early to focus your vision and craft a compelling message to fuel your growth.
No, The Elevated Pitch prioritizes creating and refining your pitch content, not styling your slide deck. However, every participant receives our 10-Slide Deck template with easy-to-follow instructions for creating their own slides in a professionally-designed layout.
We know the path to startup success is not one-size-fits-all. Whether raising outside capital is part of your plan or not, the skills of casting vision, communicating value, and motivating your audience to act are critical to your startup's growth.
The progress and insights you'll take away from the workshop can immediately be applied to your sales process, website, talent recruitment, and more.
Due to the collaborative nature of the workshop, one additional partner or co-founder may attend but we ask you not to invite your entire team.
This allows us to stay focused and respectful of each participant's time while maximizing the value and impact of each session.
Let's get started.
Registration closes March 11, 2025.
Still have questions?
Book a 15-minute Q&A call with our team.