K. Ravinther

highlights
  • Senior Consultant at ITD World: The Global Leadership Development Expert
  • Held key leadership positions at Public Bank and Panasonic, a global Japanese corporation with over 32 years of experience
  • Extensive experience in the field of entrepreneurship, sales management, customer relations, leadership, creativity & innovation, team building and human resource management
  • Certified Training Professional (CTP) jointly awarded by ITD World and ARTDO International, recognized globally
  • Certified Trainer for Human Resource Development Council (PSMB), Malaysia Certified international trainer and consultant for ITD World’s Leadership Development Programs
  • Master of Management (Distinction), University of Malaya & Doctoral candidate with Graduate School of Business(GSB), Universiti Sains Malaysia
areas of expertise
  • Sales Leadership Excellence
  • Sales Channel Management & Retail Sales
  • Motivating Yourself & Others
  • Presentation & Influencing Skills
  • Personal Excellence & The Success Principles
  • Training & HR Development
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Organizational Development
  • Customer Service and Relationship Management
  • Effective Communication
  • Academia-Industry Collaboration
biography

K. RAVINTHER is the Senior Consultant at ITD World, a Global Leadership Development Expert. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (honours) degree, Master of Management (distinctions) degree and International Masters of Small-medium Enterprise (distinctions) from the University of Malaya (Malaysia’s top university). He gained wide exposure at the University of Melbourne and gained valuable practical management experience at Kraft Australia. He has vast cross-cultural experience across more than 32 countries in the world.

He has over 26 years of corporate experience, a major part being in Channel Sales Management. He started his career in Human Resources at Public Bank Group and later developed his sales skills in Panasonic Malaysia, managing a sales team covering Pan-Malaysia. Later, he moved into a new business venture and began working as a training consultant in area of Sales Training and Customer Relations consultation. His practical experiences are in sales strategy implementation and human resources development. Having mastered Matsushita Management philosophy and business principles from various on the job training, functional responsibilities and Overseas Training combined with his direct experience leading and managing sales team and dealers’ network, he is an excellent trainer on Konosuke Matsushita philosophy of business and result orientated teamwork.

He is passionate about an academia-industry relationship. Since 2009, he has helped organizations to form successful collaboration between industry and academia world. This collaboration is to share responsibility with academic world in the development of the work-force skill, attributes and competences that industry regularly seek in graduates and involves universities and corporate companies. He is a specialist in forming sales academies, which caters for soft skills development, orientation, career counselling, career guidance, seasonal working, internship, work shadowing and work placement.

He regularly conducts personal success workshops and seminars on leadership, team building, professional selling skills, channel sales management, motivation, presentation skills and customer service. Specifically, he has conducted customized training for Panasonic Malaysia, Celcom Axiata Berhad, Maxis Communication, Zuellig Pharma, DiGi Communication, Pelangi Publication, Allianz Life Insurance, Air Asia Academy, ASTRO, HLG Capital, Motorola, SC Johnson, Fonterra, Swisslog, UniAsia General Insurance, Intel, TM Point, Inno Biologics Sdn Bhd, Tamico Bell Holdings, Delta Business Solutions, Maybank, Malaysian Government Agencies (Education Ministry, Housing Ministry and Local Government), AES (Vietnam), Connell Brothers (Vietnam), Renesas (Vietnam) Intel (Vietnam), Nestle (Vietnam) and many more.

In the course of his work, he also mentors and coaches’ individuals to reflect on their business and life, validate and define their objectives through to realization. He specialises in retail and wholesale, telecommunication, pharmaceutical and publications. Since 2004, he has developed leaders in planning, budgeting, sales administration, department administration, strategy implementation, business development, sales campaigns, public relations, presentation skills, industry-academia collaboration and human resources development.

Ravinther has a commitment to enable, enrich, and transform the work culture and perspectives of leaders in organizations as he firmly believes that these individuals need to take control of their lives and work to be truly happy and productive.