How Pearlfinders helps this leadership development group make a meaningful difference to its new business pipeline

The Client: First Ascent Group incorporates four brands providing leadership and management development programmes. Working in close partnership with clients, it designs tailored programmes that incorporate contemporary brain science, covering Leadership, Team, Graduate and Talent Development, Recruitment Support, Coaching and Culture Change.

Simone Robinson, Director: "The Pearlfinders solution has proved invaluable to us at First Ascent Group, which incorporates four different brands. We provide leadership and management development programmes, and we have been able to leverage the platform's contact information and insights to make a meaningful difference to our new business pipeline. The reports on companies help us shape initial introductions, while the contact information is accurate and compliant, essential for our marketing outreach. The addition of Sidekick just makes everything so much more streamlined."

Securing more revenue for a leading employee benefits provider

The Client: More than 1,000 top employers trust Bright Horizons for solutions that support employees, from on-site child care to back-up care and education programs.

Marisa Gough, Sales Intelligence Manager: "Having used Pearlfinders' HR solution for a number of years, we've recently renewed our subscription with a focus on our newly-established market intelligence team. The insights reports save us valuable time when it comes to understanding prospects' priorities, informing our commercial strategy and targeting, while the curated contact lists and decision-maker moves allow our sales team to reach out to companies faster and with more precision."

How this leading university enables more targeted business development outreach

The Client: One of the UK's leading universities, University of Warwick has 28,000 students from 147 countries. The University uses Pearlfinders' HR - People & Purpose solution to identify companies investing in L&D and potential corporate partners.

Gail Tomlinson-Short, Head of Business Development: "Pearlfinders has been a hugely valuable tool for our team. The real advantage is the insight: instead of just providing company data, it highlights organisations showing relevant activity, which makes it much easier to focus on the prospects that genuinely matter. Being able to prioritise companies based on their upcoming plans and signals identified by the analysts has made our outreach far more targeted and effective."

How Pearlfinders enables the UK's leading experience-day retailer to uncover fresh opportunities

The Client: Founded in 1999, Buyagift has grown into the UK's leading online gift experience retailer. Pearlfinders is used by its corporate team to engage organisations with its corporate gifting and reward solutions.

Buyagift's commercial team: "Pearlfinders has become an invaluable part of our partnership strategy at Buyagift. It helps us identify the right brands at the right time, particularly those with active budgets and an appetite for creative collaboration. The platform saves us hours of research each week and consistently uncovers opportunities we wouldn't have come across otherwise. It's like having an extra member of the team focused purely on opportunity spotting."

Timely, relevant conversations with potential clients

The Client: A performance consultancy business based in Hammersmith, London, using proven Olympic-winning strategies to deliver business success for individuals, teams and organisations globally.

Sara Oates, Client Director: "As a strategy, team and performance consultancy, relevance and timing are key when identifying potential clients. Pearlfinders has provided us with high-quality, well-curated insights that help surface opportunities we may not have surfaced otherwise. The buying signals feel timely and aligned to the kind of organisational change that really matters to our work."

Powering sales success for a world-class training company

The Client: Founded in 1912, Dale Carnegie has evolved into a global movement showing people how to tap into the best parts of themselves. Clients include Dell, Premier Foods, Nissan and Norwegian Cruise Line.

Pete Burbidge, General Manager: "We have been using Pearlfinders for over a year now and cannot recommend this service highly enough. The platform has had a profound impact on our prospecting efforts and resulted in significant sales success for Dale Carnegie UK. One of the most valuable aspects of Pearlfinders is the key contact data they provide, supplemented with great sales intelligence that helps us initiate conversations and identify clear commercial opportunities."

Defining target sectors and building high-value contact lists

The Client: Leo Learning delivers a strategic mix of world-class multi-device learning content, media, tools and platforms. Part of Learning Technologies Group, clients include Jaguar Land Rover, Sky and Coca-Cola.

Solutions Consultant: "The contact data is the best I've seen for the HR market and is undoubtedly one of the most valuable aspects of the platform. The advanced search function allows me to segment the database by relevance to our services and source email addresses, phone numbers and LinkedIn profiles for high-value prospects. The daily analyst reports allow us to keep on top of the latest industry news and better define our target sectors."

Accurate, up-to-date information for a video-first e-learning platform

The Client: simpleshow is the pioneer platform for digital products and services around explainer videos, guided by the mission to make modern communication simple and concise.

Raquel Cano Barcala, Operations: "We are very happy working with Pearlfinders. The platform provides accurate, valuable up-to-date information on companies investing in L&D. They have an excellent customer success team, who trained us in detail to take advantage of all the information from the platform."

Proactively engaging new companies for a global future talent leader

The Client: Amberjack is a global expert in future talent and volume recruitment outsourcing, technology and assessment, working with clients including EY, Mars, Tesco and Network Rail.

Emily Bryant, Head of Marketing & Brand: "The team has been loving using Pearlfinders as your brilliant insights and key contact data help us proactively identify new companies and people to target."