Turn your vision into a magnetic message.
Join The Elevated Pitch and learn to communicate your startup vision with confidence and clarity.
The focus you need to connect and inspire.
Whether you're an entrepreneur with a vision, a startup founder raising funds, or a seasoned vet prepping to go to market, the success of your big idea rides on your ability to sell it effectively.
The Elevated Pitch is a 3-session online workshop designed to provide you with actionable guidance and tools for creating a comprehensive message others can understand, connect with, and buy into.
Stop struggling to explain your ambitious idea.
The Elevated Pitch is for early-stage startup founders and entrepreneurs tired of:
Confusion instead of connection
People “just don't get it." Your attempts to explain your vision are met with blank stares, not enthusiasm.
Complexity overload
Explaining your innovative idea in a way that makes sense to outsiders feels impossible.
Fumbled pitches, frustrated dreams
You struggle to articulate the unique value of your idea, leading to missed opportunities and difficulty securing buy-in.
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.
Walk away with a presentation-ready pitch that takes your startup to the next level.
Focus your message. Craft your pitch. Deliver with confidence.
The Elevated Pitch is different by design
- 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
- Our content is designed to quickly move you from idea to action and get real results right now.
- Learn from experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in brand strategy, product design, manufacturing, marketing, and startup growth
- Connect and collaborate with a community of founders just like you.
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 purpose-driven brands people love.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Elevated Pitch consists of three online sessions with time between to reflect on the material covered, apply it to your business, and begin implementing immediately.
Following our second session, you'll use our recommended framework to write and record a two minute pitch, which you will then submit for feedback and notes. The final session is a one-on-one coaching session to review your pitch and get personalized input from our team.
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 focuses on engineering and refining your pitch content, not creating a 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, partners or co-founders may attend but we ask you no to invite your team.
This allows us to stay focused and respectful of each participant's time while maximizing the value and impact of each session.
Still have questions? Book a call with us.
Any time. Any place. Any audience.
Whether at a casual networking event or the investor pitch of your dreams, generate excitement and buy-in with the tools to confidently deliver a clear, compelling message every time.
Let's get started.
The Elevated Pitch includes:
- Three online workshop sessions
- Workbook
- 10 Slide Pitch Deck Template
- Exclusive members-only pricing on 1:1 coaching and design services