Everyone is a public speaker. As soon as you’re speaking in front of one or more people, you’re doing it.
With the explosion of all things digital and virtual, there’s never been a better time to be a public speaker. IMHO, it will be the last remaining thing AI can’t do better than us! Human connection is and always will be innately human.
People who pitch are different, though.
People who pitch are financially rewarded when their public speaking efforts are successful. People who pitch approach the art and science of public speaking more methodically and with rigor. People who pitch are continuously working on their technique, rehearsing, and taking action based on results.
In my experience, there's nothing more rewarding than winning a pitch, and getting that elusive YES from your audience. That's why I built Winning The Room. It’s been the inspiration for my book, my executive coaching series, and this wonderful learning community.
Inside Winning The Room, we're a bunch of pitchers training in tandem. Not only does Winning The Room encourage you to move faster and rehearse the hell out of your material, but you also get the benefit of learning from the results of others.
If you’re serious about pitching, Winning The Room was made for you.
Our one-on-one coaching program is designed to be small (and stay small).
JP has coached large teams at some of the best-known businesses in the world. There are great things about that style of coaching, especially the ‘energy of the crowd’, but due to the sheer number of people (often 100+), some of the learnings end up being diluted and generalised.
Simply put, a smaller number of coaching clients allows JP to go deep with each and every person.
Our one-on-one coaching program is capped at 25 clients. We will never exceed this number. New spots will only become available if a client decides they do not wish to renew.
My pitching journey began in 1994 when I landed my first job as a media planner at Ammirati Puris Lintas. I spent the next 10 years wearing a suit and pitching creative work to clients for great advertising agencies like BBDO (New York), Kirshenbaum Pond + Partners (New York), and BMF (Sydney).
In 2004, I left my suit behind and took on my first creative gig as the Global Creative Director of Mambo. After Mambo, I worked as Executive Ideas Director at Naked Communications, Chief Creative Officer at AKQA, and I started my own creative agency, Tongue.
Tongue grew to over 50 people and worked with some of the best clients in the world, including Coca-Cola, Audi, and Chanel, before it was acquired by STW (now WPP) in 2016.
Since then, I’ve been running my own consultancy, Delorean, and working with my friends at We Are Unity.
I’ve been a suit, a creative, an entrepreneur, an investor, an author, and a judge on a hit TV show (that’s a story for another time). The thing that links all these diverse roles is pitching.
I bring all this experience and more to Winning The Room, which I'm determined to make one of the best communities on the internet!
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Getting people to say YES means different things to different people, but as a baseline, it means more financial rewards.
What if you could close twice as many deals? That would change your life, right? Well, 2x is just the start!
Great pitching can have a 100x return on investment. I know that sounds absurd to you right now, but I’ve experienced that level of return in my own life, and I’ve helped others create the same results for themselves.
In fact, most members tell me within weeks of joining that they’ve already got their money’s worth back.
