Strategic Growth for Relationship-Driven Companies
We generate new business opportunities for clients through strategic partnerships, business development, and relationship-driven growth. We work alongside leadership teams to identify, advance, and close high-value opportunities while strengthening the strategic relationships that support long-term business expansion.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Generate, engage, advance, and help close new business opportunities through executive-level outreach, relationship development, strategic positioning, and active deal advancement. Pratt Business Group operates directly within the full business development process, from identifying and originating opportunities to cultivating relationships, coordinating stakeholders, supporting negotiations, maintaining momentum, and helping move opportunities through execution and closure. We work as an embedded strategic growth partner alongside leadership teams rather than as an outside vendor, allowing us to remain closely aligned with the company’s goals, priorities, culture, and long-term commercial objectives.
Strategic Partnerships
Develop and advance strategic partnerships that create long-term commercial growth, expanded market access, and new revenue opportunities. Pratt Business Group operates directly within the partnership lifecycle, from identifying and structuring strategic relationships to aligning stakeholders, advancing negotiations, coordinating execution, and helping partnerships evolve into meaningful long-term business outcomes. We work as an integrated extension of the organization to ensure partnership strategy, relationship management, and opportunity development remain aligned with leadership direction, organizational values, and broader growth objectives.
Why Us?
Pratt Business Group operates as a selective strategic growth partner focused on helping companies generate, advance, and help close meaningful business opportunities through relationship-driven business development and strategic partnerships.
Why Our Approach
As companies grow, business development and strategic relationship management often become fragmented between leadership responsibilities, reactive networking, referrals, and limited internal bandwidth. Over time, this can create missed partnerships, inconsistent opportunity flow, and unrealized growth potential around otherwise strong organizations. We focus solely on business development and strategic partnerships to help companies strengthen opportunity flow, expand key relationships, pursue larger commercial opportunities, and create long-term revenue growth around already capable operations.
Why It Works
We operate as an embedded extension of the leadership team rather than as an outside vendor. By working directly within the business development and partnership process, we are able to maintain stronger alignment with leadership, develop a deeper understanding of the business, and pursue opportunities with greater consistency, communication, and strategic focus. Our model is intentionally selective. We work with a limited number of companies at a time to ensure focused strategic attention, confidentiality, trust, and meaningful long-term value creation while remaining aligned with the organization’s priorities, values, and broader objectives.
Why Michael B. Pratt
Michael is an experienced strategic growth operator, international dealmaker, and relationship-driven business developer with more than 20 years of experience originating, structuring, advancing, and closing complex business opportunities across multiple industries and international markets. His background spans media & entertainment, real estate & development, talent development, consulting, and international commercial relationships. Throughout his career, Michael has consistently demonstrated the ability to enter unfamiliar industries, rapidly understand business environments, identify strategic commercial opportunities, and generate meaningful business outcomes through relationships, strategic positioning, and deal advancement. Michael’s cross-sector experience allows him to identify partnership opportunities, commercial alignments, and growth strategies that are often overlooked within more siloed industries. In addition to strategic thinking and relationship development, he is known for his ability to connect the right people, organizations, and opportunities in ways that create meaningful long-term value for all parties involved.His cross-sector experience across media & entertainment, real estate & development, consulting, talent development, and international business allows him to identify partnership opportunities, commercial alignments, and growth strategies that are often overlooked within more siloed industries. He is known for his ability to connect the right people, organizations, and opportunities in ways that create meaningful long-term business value.