Joseph Nocerino

Joseph Nocerino is the CEO and founder of Century Planning Associates, Inc. (Century), a professional competitive acquisition, project management and training company, established in 1972.

For almost 30 years, Century has specialized in corporate strategic and tactical business development and training. Mr. Nocerino and his company are particularly well-known for leadership and support services that identify and assess competitive opportunities, produce winning competitive proposals, and execute successful projects/programs for public and private concerns.

Mr. Nocerino prepares, manages and guides acquisitions planning, strategic assessments, project/program implementation, program development and training delivery, and all aspects of competitive proposal preparation for thousands of large and small enterprises. He wrote books on how to plan for and develop successful competitive acquisitions, related win plans, winning proposals, the fundamentals of dynamic presentations for selling and adult training, and the systems, procedures and processes for CustomerPerfect™ product and service, quality assurance.

He is the chief architect of the Century ProposalPerfect System and the Century Associate Certification Process. He is a skilled and creative orals presenter and briefing coach, as well as a dynamic adult trainer.

Mr. Nocerino’s experience with the federal government is extensive. He has been intensely involved in all aspects of procurement responses for multiple DOD agencies and almost all civil agencies such as HICFA, Department of Interior, Department of Transportation, NIH, FBI, and GSA, as well as the US Postal Service and large business-to-business competitive acquisition/proposal preparations.

Relevant Experience

Instruct, Advise, Mentor

  • Georgetown University School of Continuing Education
  • George Mason University
  • University of New Mexico
  • Harvard Business School
  • Howard University
  • University of Maryland Extension
  • College of Saint Rose (New York)
  • Alexandria School for Continuing Education
  • SBA sponsored Small Business Development Centers
  • Small/disadvantaged businesses
  • Various large and small-size commercial corporations

Facilitate

Senior facilitator and advisor to corporations regarding competitive acquisitions, including positioning, marketing, win planning and the overall process of corporate re-engineering

Lead

Serves corporations as their competitive proposal kick-off meeting leader; win planning strategist; Red and Gold Team manager; and orals coach for multibillion-dollar opportunities to government agencies and commercial enterprises, most often involving multiple subcontractors

Write

Author of How to Prepare Winning Competitive Proposals, Sales PresentationPerfect™ , and The CenturyPerfect™ Win Planning Protocol

Teach

Business instructor, curriculum advisor and mentor for a range of enterprises and organizations such as schools, colleges and universities