Meeting Ben

Ben Kimura-Gross is a negotiation specialist deeply committed to fostering meaningful connections in the deal-making processes. Compassionate negotiation is the name of his game.

With a wealth of experience, he understands that while techniques such as BATNA assessment, framing, and anchoring are crucial, they pale in comparison to the effectiveness of negotiators equipped with exceptional perspective-switching abilities and genuine empathy.

His purpose for impact

His mission is to empower impact-driven leaders and business owners to enhance their negotiation outcomes, particularly when facing formidable opponents. With a track record of training executives in leading corporations and governmental bodies, Ben is well-versed in navigating B2B negotiations and facilitating organisational change from within.

So we decided to collaborate on bringing that experience to the community - introducing Impact-Groups on WONDR.

Embracing cohorts to support impactful change

Following the success of his AMA events, Ben recognised an opportunity to further support event attendees. Ben and the WONDR team have now started to approve members within the community to create a safe learning space for people tackling high-stake sales moments; B2B sales, colleague disputes and investor discussions.

By merging Ben's community with the WONDR network and introducing a simple template, platform engagement has surged, expanding collective networks. This unified group, born from collaborative feedback sessions, aims to enhance event experiences and promote continuous participation, from monthly to hourly engagement.

AMA: Reach the best investors for you

• This was a “get to know the group” session
• People shared their backgrounds, welcomed each other and discussed fundraising challenges
• From here there is now an approved-only, safe place for people tackling high-stakes negotiations

AMA: Acing high stakes sales negotiations

• Four weeks in the same core group were returning and retained
• New attendees, meant that the group were broadening their networks and learning from each other

A Group chat was created:

• After four weeks, the group is comfortable and confident with each other
• The next natural step was to create a group chat
• Attendees can safely welcome each other, meet and ask the ‘stupid’ questions
• The group have built trust and now supports each other's growth.
• Ben simply nudges them in the right direction.

A daily and weekly active group

• The group has been daily and weekly active - and still going.
• Some learners are even becoming hourly active around the content and group.

This graph is of all the ‘social discussion events’ - highlighting the amount of interactions Ben’s group is having between themselves