Winning Pitch

"One Central Park has delivered spot-on  infrastructure facilities. They understand the  needs and flexibility of fast-growing businesses" 

John Leach, CEO and Ian Brookes, Managing Director

From start-up to plc in just eighteen  months and with turnover in excess  of £1.5 million, Winning Pitch plc  doesn’t just ‘talk the talk’. It leads by  example with purpose and intent.  Based from day one at One Central  Park, Winning Pitch provides high  growth support services to  individuals and companies to enable  them to achieve breakthrough  performance. The business achieved  aPLUS Market listing in December  2007, and was recently nominated  as PLUS Market New Business of the  Year in the Fast Growth Business  Awards, sponsored by T-Mobile.

Established in 2006 by founders with  more than twenty years experience  of building high-growth companies,  Winning Pitch’s proprietary  performance coaching solutions help  support the foundations for business  growth and sustainable success.  Winning Pitch’s services include the  Winning Business Academy,  coaching nearly 400 growth-  oriented individuals and companies  to date, providing motivational  master classes and coaching to  entrepreneurs and start-ups. The  company also runs BioStars, a  bespoke coaching programme for  biotech and biomedical companies  starting up in Manchester; The  Observatory a market research  service to private and public sector  clients; and WPtv, an internet-  protocol broadcast service for  marketing, communication and  learning solutions.
 
Winning Pitch teamed up with UMIC  to develop the Winning Business  Academy concept. Companies  incubating in UMIC facilities  reported increased sales, greater  business confidence, and new  customer and market wins arising  from their participation in the  Academy. Commenting on the  success achieved from the  collaboration with UMIC, CEO and  founder John Leach said “Our  mission is to ‘make it happen’ and  drive breakthrough performance of  individuals and businesses,  delivering results for them that they  didn’t believe they could achieve.  We certainly seemed to have made a  difference to the UMIC companies.”

Winning Pitch’s ambitions and success  has seen headcount grow from six in  September 2006 to 20 today,  necessitating four office moves in  One Central Park. John continues:  “One Central Park has delivered  spot-on infrastructure facilities,  helping us each time we’ve been  ready to move. They understand the  needs and flexibility of fast-growing  businesses when other landlords  seem to take a bonkers approach to  what we need. It’s proof that the  incubator work space can stimulate  and supportgrowth but it’snot just  about the building.”
 
“We believe that every individual  and company has the ability to  achieve fast growth, to improve and  do better. We help to “flick the  switch” of innovation that creates a  new and reinvented future. Being  based in One Central Park has  enabled us to become embedded  with our clients, ensuring we’resat  side-by-side with them on their  growth journey, providing hands on  coaching and mentoring support  based on need and on-demand. In  turn, this has helped us to create a  community of entrepreneurs, which  by its very nature will sustain  growth in the future.”

www.winning-pitch.co.uk