“For must-win situations we need custom decks built quickly…We need million-dollar decks to close million-dollar deals.”
Break silos. Improve collaboration. Install rigor and precision.
Messina Labs™ condenses decades of enterprise sales strategy into repeatable skills — enabling your teams to crush your largest, most complex deals.
You don’t need more resources. You don’t need Deloitte.
You need Messina Labs™.
Messina Labs™ — Every Essential Skill for Every Important Deal.
Messina builds our engagements around you – your priorities, your people, your deals.
✅ Strengthen internal collaboration between sales, pre-sales, and marketing
✅ Honor and develop the strengths of your essential contributors
✅ Find new value in your existing sales and go-to-market materials
✅ Clarify what matters to buyers and how to sequence information
✅ Spot strategy misalignments early and build consensus around key ideas
✅ Avoid the common traps that weaken trust and slow down complex sales
✅ Deploy custom visuals that actually support your arguments and claims
✅ Improve the way you incorporate edits and feedback from others
✅ Get insights from veterans who sell in your space and speak your language
✅ Leave a lasting impact on the quality of your go-to-market operations
“Messina gives us the missing layer of skills we can’t afford to keep in-house — backed by firsthand experience building winning decks in our industry.”
Messina Labs™ — Skill Domains Covered in Every Engagement
MESSAGING
Creating wireframes, agendas, and break slides
Using generative AI to brainstorm, rewrite, and simplify ideas
Adding value with enhanced slide titles, headers, and callouts
Incorporating footnotes, assumptions, and caveats
Drafting logical, supportive slide notes
Incorporating ROI, business value, and competitive differentiation
DESIGN
Applying consistent slide layouts and brand standards
Leveraging online tools for photos, icons, graphics, and AI enhancements
Grasping basic principles of balance, color, and stylization
Establishing consistency without template dependence
Understanding white space, text alignment, gradients, and animations
DELIVERY
Taking executive feedback and improving the dry-run
Presenting with impact across formats -- in-person, virtual, and hybrid
Speaking to present – cadence, pacing, pausing, and tone
Using on-screen best practices and screen sharing etiquette
Landing intros, transitions, and closings
Informing your audience — not oversharing
COLLABORATION
Understanding basic document sharing and version control
Defining project roles, content owners, and presenters
Aligning on defined milestones and deadlines
Leading working sessions, status calls, and reviews
Building reusable content assets and libraries