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Joanne Lefebvre
Jim Lefebvre
Sandy Decker
Carol Bergquist
Peggy Prideaux

Joanne Lefebvre is founder and president of Proposal Pros, Inc.  Joanne’s background includes 25 years of professional writing and communication experience, including more than 12 years of proposal writing, editing and management.  Joanne brings a wealth of experience to the proposal management process.  She is skilled at working with the highest level of a company's sales and marketing force to determine the most effective process for answering RFPs.  

Joanne specializes in creating proposals that include the proper balance of company information with the necessary value proposition and competitive story..  She is particularly skilled in working with SMEs (subject matter experts) to draw out the needed information, and  turn it into winning proposals that have generated hundreds of  millions of dollars of new revenues.

Joanne has written, edited and managed proposals in these industries: 

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Global technology services

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Medicare and Medicaid

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Managed Health Care

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HMO Administration

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Vendor Management

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Pharmacy Benefit Management

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Medical Claims/Eligibility Audits

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401(k) Vendor Selection

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HR Technologies

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Retirement Planning

She has written proposals for Fortune 500 companies, and she has handled the intricacies of preparing proposals for numerous state and local government bids. 

Specific duties have included writing and editing proposals, coordinating the seamless integration of materials from contributing writers, providing database development and management, building electronic filing systems for easy retrieval of information and “best practices” for proposal production.  

Prior to founding Proposal Pros, Inc., in 1999, Joanne wrote, edited and managed proposals for a global consulting firm, a pharmacy benefit management company and other managed healthcare organizations.

Joanne’s previous professional experience also includes writing and editing for trade publications and metropolitan daily newspapers where she won several writing awards.  Joanne received her B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.