designing your ecosystem

Build the relationships that build your business

Designing Your Ecosystem is an 8-week intensive advisory cohort for business owners ready to build a relationship-driven growth system for predictable, sustainable revenue.

You've built a business people respect.

Your work is strong. Your network is real. Referrals come in — just not consistently. You're tired of growth feeling like a guessing game.

What if your business development didn't depend on who remembered you this month?

Cohort Dates: September 14-November 9, 2026

This program is for established businesses who are done with reactive spurts of growth.

You need a relationship ecosystem

You don't need more tactics. You don't need another visibility strategy or networking checklist. You need a relationship ecosystem — an intentional structure where partnerships, referrals, client advocacy, visibility, and follow-up work together to create momentum you can count on.

Built like the big companies do it — sized for yours.

You didn't get here by dragging things out.

So this isn't a coaching program you drift through for a year. It's a focused, eight-week build with a finish line — go in, do the work, walk out with the deliverable.

Enterprise companies have entire business development teams because they treat relationships as infrastructure. They build systems, pipelines, and partnership strategy on purpose. Smaller businesses get handed "post more" and "network harder" instead. Designing Your Ecosystem gives you — or someone on your team — that same discipline, customized to your business and documented as a system you keep.

You finish by early November. Which means while everyone else spends January figuring out their growth plan, yours is already running.

Is this for me?

Understanding how to build an actionable business development strategy is essential for sustainable growth. Any company aiming to grow, scale, enter new markets, or increase revenue needs a business development plan. Designing Your Ecosystem leads you through this process in five modules.

Business development is the strategic process of creating long-term value for an organization by identifying new markets, forging strategic partnerships, and building customer relationships. It serves as the bridge between sales, marketing, and product development to drive sustainable, systemic growth.

You're established

Now it's time to make that growth intentional and repeatable.

Online Cohort

Virtual resources, community, and coaching — so you can show up, get unstuck, and keep moving.

Customized

You'll have hands-on support to customize the framework to your business, your relationships, and your goals.

"Working with Katie was exactly what I needed to take my business to the next level."

Rachel Kopczyk , Producer, Strategist, Community Builder

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What We'll Do Together

Over eight weeks, we design and implement the five core systems that make relationship-led growth predictable:

  • Strategic Partnership Web — identify and activate the right collaborators who amplify your reach

  • Client Advocacy System — turn past clients into active referral sources without awkward asks

  • Industry Influence Network — position yourself where decisions happen and opportunities emerge

  • Strategic Event Marketing — show up with intention, not obligation

  • Lifecycle Marketing Automation — build out a CRM system that works for you instead of just housing your contact list

“Katie’s expertise, enthusiasm, and compassion combine in a unique way allowing her to support your vision and extend the possibilities of your business.”

Sarah Norton , Photographer and Literary Specialist

What You'll Walk Away With

This is your roadmap for relationship-driven revenue.

A clear map of your relationship ecosystem — who's in it, what's working, what's dormant, and where untapped opportunity lives

Activation strategies for each pillar that fit your actual business model, capacity, and revenue goals

A designed relationship journey — a CRM system that keeps you present with the right people at the right time

Templates, scripts, and workflows you can implement immediately (partnership outreach, referral requests, event follow-up, advocacy campaigns)

A trusted peer advisory group — entrepreneurs building the same infrastructure alongside you

Monthly guidance and implementation support as you activate, test, refine, and scale what's working

Pricing

Eight weeks to build the relationship ecosystem that turns your existing network into a repeatable revenue system — plus ongoing community support to keep the momentum going long after the intensive ends. Both options include everything - including bonus 1-year access to The Atrium virtual community. Pay in full and save!

*Bonus* 1 Year Community Access (The Atrium)

$499 value

  • Monthly Masterclass

  • Ecosystem CoWorking Hour

  • Vault of Resources

  • Community Connections

  • Discounted event tickets

6 Monthly Payments

$979/month

  • 8-week intensive cohort

  • Strategy & CRM system

  • Templates, scripts, workflow

  • Implementation support

  • Bonus access to The Atrium

Pay in Full — 15% Savings

$4,997 once

  • 15% Savings

  • 6-week intensive cohort

  • Strategy & CRM system

  • Templates, scripts, workflow

  • Implementation support

  • Bonus access to The Atrium

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FAQ

Who is this program really beneficial for?

Established service-based business owners who've grown through word-of-mouth and great work — and are ready to make that growth intentional instead of leaving it to who happens to remember you this month. It works whether you're a solopreneur wearing every hat or a small team that wants one repeatable system everyone can run from. If you're experienced, you value your time, and you'd rather build the thing than talk about building the thing — you're who this is for.


I run lean / I'm a team of one. Is this too much for me?

No. The framework scales to your capacity, not the other way around. You'll build activation strategies that fit your actual business model and bandwidth — not an enterprise plan you'll never execute. Solopreneurs walk away with a system that finally makes referrals and partnerships predictable without adding to the to-do list.


Can I send someone from my team instead of attending myself?

Yes — and it's one of the smartest ways to use this. Send the person who owns growth, partnerships, or client relationships, and they'll walk out with a documented business development strategy and CRM system your company keeps and reuses. It becomes your internal playbook — the template your business runs on from here forward, not knowledge that lives in one person's head.

How is this different from a coaching program or mastermind?

Most coaching containers keep you in the conversation for months. This is an advisory intensive with a finish line. You're not here to process — you're here to build. Eight focused weeks, a real deliverable, then you own it. You get the peer advisory group and implementation support of a cohort without signing up for an open-ended commitment.


What will I walk away with?

A complete, documented relationship ecosystem — not notes, an asset. A map of who's in your network and where the untapped revenue is, activation strategies for all five pillars, a CRM system designed around your relationship journey, and a library of templates, scripts, and workflows you can use immediately. By the end you have the system built, not a plan to build it someday.


What's the time commitment?

It's an intensive, designed for people who are busy because their businesses are working. Expect roughly a few hours a week — live cohort time plus focused implementation. You're doing the real work during the program, which is exactly why you finish with something done.

When does it run?

The cohort runs September 14 – November 9, 2026. That's intentional: you finish well before the holidays, so you head into the new year with your growth system already built — while most people are still writing "be more intentional about networking" on a resolution list.


Isn't "business development" a big-company thing?

Exactly. Enterprise companies have entire business development departments because they know relationships are infrastructure, not luck. They don't leave growth to chance. This brings that same discipline down to your scale — a real, documented system instead of "network more" advice — without the enterprise budget or the department.


What if I already get referrals?

Good — that means it's working, it's just not predictable. Right now your growth depends on who remembers you. This turns those scattered referrals into a designed system, so the right opportunities show up on purpose instead of in waves.