Makeesha L. Allen

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, our Founder and CEO, Makeesha L. Allen, has always had an innate passion for all things business. The intricacies of how a business is run; how it makes money; the value it creates for its customers, the marketplace and community; and the need to continuously innovate to meet its customer’s ever-evolving needs, wants and expectations were all the ammunition Makeesha needed to power her relentless pursuit of one day successfully owning and operating her own company. A thoroughbred, she comes from a vast and deep family line of entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers and high-level professionals. Although Grade A quality type blood flows through her veins, it was her Dad that provoked her to pursue her passion for business. He was a chemical engineer who became well-off by making real estate deals on his days off. He was also the one who taught her the value of education, having a strong and positive work ethic and that she could become whatever she wanted if she put her mind to it. 

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With limitless vision, at a young age, Makeesha entered the workforce in and up from the front door. Over the past 20+ years of her career, she learned as much as she possibly could and developed many positive relationships across the various industries within which she worked. During this time, Makeesha gained intimate and diverse industry knowledge, as well as developed the remarkable ability to quickly identify and understand what moves key decision makers to action, both within the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) sectors. In tandem, she also became masterful at identifying and solving business and marketing problems that would ultimately save and make the companies she worked for millions of dollars. 

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Along her journey of mastery, she quickly recognized a common problem that each company she worked for possessed, but in different ways. Carelessly handling the revenue-generating areas of their business; particularly, within and throughout the proposal management process. Like any maverick would do, she created and presented value-based solutions to the key leaders of those organizations. Few listened, most did not; all while millions of dollars were slipping through their hands every day from either mismanagement of and/or failure to see viable growth opportunities within their grasp.

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Makeesha grew frustrated with seeing companies leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table over the years. This motivated her to leverage her work experience, education, industry training and business relationships to create REAL business and proposal management solutions that are growth-focused and generate REAL value for the companies with which she worked. It’s the typical underdog story, right? The one who spends so much time trying to be heard from within the walls realizes the only way to be heard is to do so from outside of the walls, hence the birthing of Chief Cornerstone Proposal Consultants, Inc. (CCPC). CCPC is the solution to countless, long-neglected proposal management problems many companies face that today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape has become ripened for transformation.