RETAIL MASTERY
FAILURE INTELLIGENCE
CAREER TRANSITIONING
CORPORATE CONSULTING
WORLD-CLASS RETAIL ADVISORY SERVICES
INTERACTION PLATFORMS
CORPORATE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
ENTERPRISE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
RETAIL OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTING FIRM
ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING
GET READY TO BE THE WORLD’S BEST
Take your success to world-class status by learning to Fail Smart with PK Menon - one of the world’s most influential
and respected Leadership Authorities, now here in the UAE.
Prakash ‘PK’ Menon
Now here in the UAE, after transforming the retail
“There is an undeniable link between failure and success. I call this FAILURE INTELLIGENCE.
landscape of Australia on a global scale.
I have experienced many failures and I have achieved phenomenal success because of them.”
influential and respected
In his previous role as Director of Logistics
PK’s focus is to help others replicate the level of success he has achieved in accordance with their
Leadership authorities,
and Supply Chain, Myer Stores, PK and his
own aspirations and to help clever people be Commercially Smart.
Career Transitioning Specialists
team, achieved the impossible - double profit,
and Retail Supply Chain Experts.
contributing more than $25 million in
Prakash ‘PK’ Menon one of the world’s most
less than 12 months.
PK introduced a series of carefully executed lean
retail supply chain strategies that significantly
Recipient of numerous prestigious awards & honours
lowered operating costs and resulted in a 50%
increase in productivity.
Author of three books -
Outcome: He introduced world-class efficiencies
Driven - Accelerate Your Career with Smart Transitioning
across the chain, resulting in a total of
Supply Chain is Sexy - Harnessing the Retail Revolution
$290 million being added to the bottom line since
the implementation of his strategy.
and Fail Smart - The Undeniable Link Between Failure & Success
PROGRAMS FOR RETAIL
WHO ARE WE
Thought Leaders Middle East (TLME)
As one of the fastest growing regions on the planet, the Middle East is rich in Thought Leadership, and at its current
rate of growth; the region is set to become an even greater force on the global economic stage. The business success
stories and size of the challenges it faces as it steps confidently into the future, make it a hot bed for innovation, creative
thinking and excellence. It is for this reason that Thought Leaders Global is investing heavily in the Middle East and
developing a community of coaches, teachers, mentors and experts who can bring this region to the forefront of Thought
Leadership. Founded by Thought Leaders Global Partner, PK Menon, Thought Leaders Middle East is based in the UAE.
www.thoughtleadersme.com
Black Belt in Retail Program
This program has been designed to take you on a carefully planned journey towards ‘best in the world’ status. Conducted in
manageable blocks of 2 days a month over a 9-month period, the program adopts a strategic, systematic flow in terms of teaching you
the skills and knowledge to master the retail process for 21st century success.
Essence
Before any retail organisation starts to ‘do the business of lean business’, you must - as its leader, owner or a manager - understand:
– Why you are in business in the first place
– Where you want to get to in your business
– How you want to get there
– Who you want to engage with in the course of your business
Enabler
What will make a difference to what you do? What will enable you to cut through and drive your retail business to greater heights?
THOUGHT LEADERS GLOBAL
Since 2001, Thought Leaders Global has been delivering world-class business education to subject matter experts
in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and most recently, the Middle East. Essentially, the Thought
Leadership movement is all about helping experts leverage what they know.
www.thoughtleadersglobal.com
“We help experts who know something become Thought Leaders
who are known for knowing something. In other words, we help
clever people capture, package and deliver what they know for
greater commercial success.”
As a leader, owner or a manager - it is vital that you ask yourself:
– What are (or could be) my key areas of strength?
– How can I be sharp in all these areas?
– How can I focus on gaining competitive advantage?
Engineer
Once you have established the essence of your business and put in place the enablers that will make it all happen, it’s time to start
building. This is the Engineering phase, and like any state of the art machine, every part must be carefully crafted. There are nine parts
to our machine and together they reflect the need to buy, move and sell. There are resources in each stage that must be utilised; there
are mechanisms that are to be applied to those resources and outcomes that will flow from that. Our intuitive, integrated 9-P model
captures all of these elements and presents them in a way that allows you to create your own state of the art retail machine.
Execute
There is little point in engineering a great retail business if you fail to put it into action according to the plan that you formulated.
You must make sure you follow a plan for success by:
– Continually evolving and adapting new innovations to changing market situations
– Adjusting and re-adjusting every aspect of your business to fine-tune it to what is required right now
– Constantly working with your partners to ensure that inventory is optimised and profits are maximised
Evaluate
Data and information are as vital to your retail organisation’s wellbeing and future success as oxygen is to humans.
With access to more data than ever before, it is crucial for you to:
– Understand not just the numbers themselves, but more importantly, the reasons behind the numbers
– Realise the significance of those figures without spending hours poring over them
– Improve the quality of your decision-making significantly
PROGRAMS FOR PROFESSIONALS
Retail Mastery Advantage Seminar
Interaction Platforms
Think about getting a group of your senior leaders to go off-site and into a retreat to drive home your business
strategy.
The global best practice principles shared in this 3-hour seminar apply equally to all retail businesses, from the largest
multinational and global online empire to the smallest corner store. All retailers will benefit from attending.
Fail Smart™ Seminar
Corporate Learning and Development
Capability development through customized training for high potential employees.
FAIL SMART™ is an action packed 3-hour seminar that shares what it takes to make successful leadership transitions
in the cut-throat, constantly changing 21st Century business environment. The seminar also highlights the role
organisational leaders must play to aid the successful leadership transition of internal and external hires.
Enterprise Thought Leadership
Customised programs to drive innovation and performance from within your organization for high
potential employees.
PROGRAMS FOR CORPORATES
World Class Retail Supply Chain Consulting firm
We transform retail operations by integrating change across several components of the retail supply chain to realise a
Keynotes
tangible improvement in operational effectiveness.
― Retail Thought Leadership Imperative
Retail Operational and Financial Analysis
The 9 Essential Skills for the 21st Century Retail Thought Leader
― Retail Mastery Imperative
Building a world-class retail business in less than 12 months
TLME brings to the table innovative, proven practitioner’s expertise for Operational planning and financial analysis to
generate an overall implementation plan for the proposed operational changes along with a risk assessment and change
management model to create world class results.
― Thought Leadership Imperatives
Leverage your ideas for maximum commercial success
― Raise Your Profile
B e known for knowing something
― Win the War for Talent
H ow to attract, retain & empower the best to drive innovation & performance from within
― Work Smarter, Not Harder
D rive your productivity
― Fail Smart™
Transform failure into triumph
World Class Retail Advisory Services
Learn from the world’s leading retail authority and take your retail business and career transforming to world-class levels.
Transform your retail enterprise into a global market leader.
YOUR FACILITATORS
“Success comes to no one overnight.
And I am no exception.
PK MENON AND
THE GLOBAL TEAM
Prakash ‘PK’ Menon is one of the world’s most influential
and respected leadership authorities. Through a strategic
series of tailored and highly practical methods, PK has helped
countless corporate professionals and entrepreneurs
accelerate their careers, make successful transitions across
industries, countries and cultures and become phenomenally
influential leaders in their own right.
PK’s professional journey has seen him accelerate to the
aspirations – whether that be to fast track their progress up
top of the corporate ladder in record time in two continents
the corporate ladder, make a successful career transition,
and within two very different industry sectors – hospitality
work smarter for more financial and lifestyle freedom, or
in India and retail in Australia. In hospitality, PK fast tracked
drive their organisation to global market leader status. PK
his career from flight catering, fast food and fine dining to
appreciates firsthand that anyone with the right mindset and
heading up the food and beverage team for India’s prestigious
willingness to learn can enjoy immense success – no matter
Taj Group of Hotels within just six years. Similarly in retail,
how humble his or her beginnings.
PK was the fastest ever employee to rise to Director status
of Australia’s leading and largest private equity owned
A dynamic, engaging and refreshingly down-to-earth speaker,
department store, MYER. Against all odds, PK increased the
writer and educator, PK is a powerful game-changer who has
retail giant’s profit line by an unprecedented $25 million in
walked the talk. He shares relevant, ‘warts and all’ personal
less than 12 months. In the process he and his team had
stories and unique, proven success methodologies together
managed to not only optimise productivity across the chain,
with game changing, immediately actionable strategies. He is
but also totally transform the culture within the organisation
the author of three books –
and the retail landscape on a global scale.
Today PK is the Executive Director of Thought Leaders Middle
East, which operates internationally from its head quarters
in Dubai. His focus is to help others replicate the level of
success he has achieved in accordance with their own
Driven - Accelerate Your Career with Smart Transitioning,
Suppy Chain is Sexy - Harnessing the Retail Revolution
and
Fail Smart - The Undeniable Link between Failure and
Success.
Three key ingredients that have helped me get to
where I am today are being intensely driven, being
focused on continual growth, and embracing failure
as an essential precursor to success.
I have experienced many failures and I have
achieved phenomenal success because of them.
Failure is the fuel; success is a decision.”
Matt Church
Peter Cook
Matt is a leading thinker who spends his time assisting
Peter is the partner in charge of getting stuff
others to raise the quality of their leadership in three
key areas: Thought Leadership, Speakership and
Motivational Leadership. An innovative entrepreneur,
best- selling author and world-class conference
speaker, he was recently recognised by the
done – a Thought Leader in the art and science of
implementation (CFO - Though Leaders Global).
Peter is a co-author of Sell Your Thoughts, delivers
Thought Leaderships programs in Melbourne, Bali and
around the world.
international speaking community as one of the 25
most influential people in the global
speaking profession.
Michael Henderson
Scott Stein
Michael is a best selling author of 5 books published by
Scott is a Thought Leader that specialises in improving commercial
Harper Collins on the impact and benefits of mastering
company culture and human values. In 2010 along with
Matt Church and Scott Stein he co-wrote the Thought
Leaders book published by HarperCollins. Michael is a
Thought Leader Global Partner and the Anthropologist
in residence for Thought Leaders.
advantage through Touchpoints and has run a beyond Black Belt
Practice for over 10 years. As TLG Global Partner he is a co-author
with the IP as coauthor of the books Thought Leaders: How to
capture, package and deliver your ideas for greater commercial
success, and Sell Your Thoughts: How to earn a million dollars a year
as a Thought Leader. He is also a successful entrepreneur with 3
business practices, a property trust and is a founding Board member
of the charity Hands Across the Water.
Marcus Bird
Marcus draws on two decades of both senior
management and human development experience
to provide an innovative and effective way to engage
teams and customers. Marcus has lead negotiations
for some of the largest retailers in the world and with
a psychotherapy background, he inspires a new way of
thinking. He is author of The 3 Minute Coach and Snap.
Shar Henderson
Shar is an accomplished woman. An Author and managing director
of an international business consultancy. Shar is an axiologist
mentor and mother of a modern family (two sons and a step
daughter). She spent 10 years flying in the New Zealand Airforce
and then led a strategic planning team for Skellerup group. She is a
2nd Dan in martial arts and founding member and lead co-ordinator
of the ‘How to build a village project’. Shar is the Thought Leader
Global partner in charge of partner alignment. Her hobbies include,
feldenkrais, calligraphy, art and music.
Mark Hodgson
Christina Guidotti
Mark comes from a highly successful corporate leadership
Christina is a leading expert in belief, conviction and commitment
background and has worked in the UK, Central Europe, Russia
in the areas of achievement, leadership, productivity and
and Australasia. He has led large teams through successful
fulfilment. As a speaker, mentor and author she partners with
business transitions, including a period in which he achieved
individuals, businesses and organisations to create life-changing
extraordinary success in transforming a business division within
and sustainable outcomes. For over two decades she has walked
one of Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisations. He has also
an extraordinarily successful path as a mum, wife and business
worked extensively in the advertising and media sales industry
leader. Christina is an Australian and NZ Thought Leaders Partner
in senior management positions. Mark is an expert in change
and maintains a thriving Black Belt practice.
and leadership, holding an MBA degree in change management
from AGSM - Australia’s leading business school. Mark is a
Global Partner in Thought Leaders and the leading partner for the
organisation in the UK.
Mel Abraham
Mel Abraham is the author of The Entrepreneur’s Solution:
GettIng the Mind-Set and Mechanics of a Millionaire and
Founder of Business Breakthrough Academy. Mel has helped
entrepreneurs, businesses and management teams nationally
combine the practical elements of business tactics and strategies
with the psychological essentials of the entrepreneurial mind to
more effectively execute their vision and establish a meaningful
legacy by changing the way they think about business, money
and wealth.
Neen James
Neen James is international productivity thought leader
who delivers engaging keynotes that have educated, and
entertained audiences with real-world strategies that apply in
all roles, whether at work or in life. Neen also provides oneon-one consulting and mentoring and helps women become
commercially smart.
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