Previous Clients
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Testimonials
Mike Dix, Interim Head of Leisure Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council, Northern Ireland.
Thank you for the extremely thorough and professional work you’ve done on the Health and Wellness Suite to get us to this point. It has been more (and harder) work than I think any of us expected. You can blame me for that! I recommended the mixed-economy model for a number of strategic and tactical reasons. The detail -as ever- has been illuminating and very involved. I’m really grateful that we have had you to guide us: I have learned a lot.
Paul Coleman, General Manager South Lake Leisure Centre, Northern Ireland
The work you have done on the HWS has been second to none and I wanted to drop a note to say I really appreciate it. It has put a very complicated operation and set up much easier for us as a Council to work through. The level of detail you have gone into is incredible and will set the HWS up nicely for long term success. .
Chris Smith, Bid Director at Serco UK & Europe
Joanne is an outstanding leader, making a noticeable and persisting impact on every area she focuses on. She has depth of expertise throughout the sales cycle, shaping and influencing opportunities, driving bids to successful conclusion, negotiating complex contract closes and ensuring effective mobilisation. She has an empathy for customers and their perceptions, which feeds into product and service redesign and highly impactful marketing campaigns.
As a member of the leadership team, she brings insight and well-timed challenge in support of wider strategic, commercial and operational challenges. Hard working and focussed, she also has an innate ability to puncture pretention and pomposity when this block progress. I valued her support and counsel as a key member of my senior team and continue to value her as a sounding board even though we are in different organisations. I can recommend Joanne wholeheartedly.
Mike Lawless, Director, For and on behalf of LA architects Ltd
For many years LA architects, as specialist sports and leisure architects, have been working closely with Joanne Martin. As an overarching statement I can only state that Joanne has been completely professional, extremely knowledgeable, and highly motivated. We have good experiences of our working relationship and would have no hesitation in recommending Joanne to any potential client. In particular, we would note that Joanne was a Client at Parkwood and led three project development submissions. Her leadership and decision making were excellent, and she supported all members of the development team and brought us together fully. Her project and team management skills are to be applauded and the submissions benefitted greatly. In terms of our specific issues we relied heavily on Joanne’s knowledge and understanding of the leisure market and especially the operational and commercial business planning of sports and leisure facilities. This was extraordinarily practical, resolved and yet forward thinking. Joanne has demonstrated to us her in-depth understanding of the economics of this industry. Through this she has provided a base for various contractual and project submissions. We have worked through PFI, PPP and DBOM with Joanne and she has been the glue for the team; directing and making decisions as necessary for a successful submission. Her appreciation of contract has been excellent. Finally, there is one key point that I would bring to the fore. Joanne has demonstrated to us that she is capable of managing and understanding people and in particular client needs. She has excellent presentation and communication skills and has given our clients absolute confidence in her and her supporting teams. I can commend Joanne to you for leadership, business and economic planning of leisure proposals, project management and presentation skills. She is in short, confident and resolved. We greatly enjoy working with her.
Andrew Wadland, Commercial Director, Parkwood Leisure
I have had the privilege of working with Joanne for 10 years, initially in operations and subsequently in her role as Sales and Marketing Director. Throughout I have found her to be diligent, adaptable, hardworking and incredibly loyal with an innate ability to charm staff, suppliers and clients alike in order to achieve highly challenging business goals. When these characteristics are combined with her ability to manage a complex and wide-ranging department remit (overseeing sales, marketing and business development functions) with tight budgetary constraints, her successful execution of the role is impressive.