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Strategic growth for ambitious B2B companies.

The Growth Company works with founders and leadership teams to sharpen how they're understood, bring senior marketing thinking to the table, and open genuine commercial doors across Ireland, the UK and internationally.

Founder

Led by Martin Murtagh

Martin Murtagh is a B2B growth strategist, relationship builder, coach and facilitator. He is the founder of The Growth Company and The Growth Network.

He helps founders, sales teams and leadership groups build the commercial skills that actually drive growth, with a particular focus on relationships, conversations, confidence and turning connections into opportunity.

With over 25 years' experience across marketing, communications, business development, coaching and teaching, Martin works with ambitious owner-led businesses and professional firms in Ireland, the UK and internationally, in person and online.

  • EMCC EIA Accredited Practitioner Coach
  • Founder of The Growth Network
  • 2x AIBF All-Ireland Business All-Star
  • Help to Grow mentor
  • Non-Executive Director, Newry Credit Union
Newspaper feature: Newry businessman Martin Murtagh honoured with second Business All-Star
Two-time All-Ireland Business All-Star
Martin Murtagh in a grey blazer speaking to a small group at a business gathering
In the room, facilitating conversation
Martin Murtagh with two Growth Network members in front of a Growth Network Dublin event screen

Curated rooms. Warm introductions. Real commercial outcomes.

People

Trainers & Facilitators

Our programmes are delivered by experienced practitioners with deep commercial and training expertise.

  • Portrait of Martin Murtagh

    Martin Murtagh

    FOUNDER, TRAINER & FACILITATOR

    B2B growth strategist, executive coach, lecturer, and trainer with more than 20 years’ experience across marketing, communications, business development, coaching, and community building. Martin works with founders, sales teams, and leadership groups to strengthen commercial capability, build strategic relationships, and create routes to market across Ireland, the UK, and internationally. He is also the founder of The Growth Network, a cross-border business community delivering more than 50 events each year. Martin lectures on the Open University Level 6 BSc (Hons) Digital Marketing programmes and mentors founders and business leaders. An EMCC-accredited practitioner coach with an MSc in Digital Marketing, he brings expertise in business networking, LinkedIn, prospecting, relationship-led sales, and executive communication.

  • Portrait of Wayne Denner

    Wayne Denner

    Trainer & Facilitator

    Speaker, author, and trainer with more than 21 years in the digital space. Wayne delivers B2B training in digital marketing, content marketing, online reputation, and public speaking, working with organisations including PayPal, Emirates, NIE, and Dubai Airports to help businesses build commercial advantage through a strong, well-managed digital & communications presence. He brings deep practical experience in how organisations and professionals protect and grow their online presence, and how digital tools support real commercial relationships. Alongside this corporate work, Wayne also speaks on online safety and safeguarding, reaching approximately 60,000 students, parents, and business audiences each year across Ireland and the UK.

  • Portrait of Denise Hamill

    Denise Hamill

    Trainer & Facilitator

    A Chartered Marketer, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and SOSTAC® Certified Planner with more than 20 years’ experience in B2B marketing. She founded Digital Den Marketing in 2014 and works with professional services, manufacturing, engineering, food, and e-commerce businesses to develop and implement marketing strategies tied to commercial objectives. Denise delivers mentoring and training for InterTradeIreland, Women in Business NI, local authorities, and enterprise support organisations, and teaches CIM-accredited marketing programmes. Named among Northern Ireland’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2018, she brings expertise in marketing audits, strategy development, marketing, content, SEO, commercial messaging, and implementation.

Community

The Growth Network

Alongside The Growth Company, Martin founded The Growth Network, a curated community that brings founders and senior leaders together across Ireland, the UK and further afield. It is built on high-trust gatherings, warm introductions and real commercial outcomes rather than transactional networking.

That same relationship-led approach runs through the work The Growth Company delivers.

The Growth Network
Martin Murtagh with two Growth Network members at a Dublin business gathering
Growth Network, Dublin
Martin Murtagh with Growth Network members hiking in the Mourne Mountains
Growth Network, Mourne Mountains

Trusted by

Ambitious B2B companies across Ireland & the UK.

  • Amplifi Solutions logo
  • Gibson Bros logo
  • LoughTec logo
  • Andrew Ingredients logo
  • Inform3 logo
  • Hutchinson Engineering logo
  • Stocktaking.ie logo
  • Pocket Box logo
  • Steel Structures logo
  • Vision Fabrications logo

…and many more

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