Your vision... finally realised.Running an international retail proposition & design development business having supporting hundreds of large and small international companies in over 14 countries to re-invent or refine their total customer experience, from an entire retail experience to a number of departments or offers and ranging from supermarket, petrol, high fashion, apparel, outdoor stores, home & leisure stores, mobile phones, selling anything from lightbulbs to apples, kayaks to handbags, ice cream to crockery. Additionally I have helped clients deliver 'Stores of the Future' for their offers in categories as wide ranging as swimming resorts, bowling centres, child care. I support businesses who want me to make their vision real to maintain or obtain the lead in their marketplace or to help them create a vision to motivate their business to move to a new higher level. I do this by taking all available information, spending time with them in their customer spaces and understanding their potential and making this real through design concepts, design detail, range or offer overlays. Why not experience what your business could really become. Hundreds already have.

- Reporting to Executive Board Member of Coles, I lead all of format development for this 2800 store multi-channel, multi format group, delivering step change improvements in all existing formats and decide vision and facilitate change for all new formats- Formats covered are Supermarkets, Convenience, Big box non food, (K-Mart, Office works, Target) plus big box liquor formats 'First Choice', high street convenience liquor 'Liquorland' and Boutique liquor 'Vintage Cellars'- Managed Site Research/Network teams, now running multiple teams delivering Viability/Feasibility planning, POS and communiciation rules, Store Design, Visual merchandising teams and restructuring marketing team to support long term business goals

Reporting to the European Board of CEO's I developed teams across 5 countries to deliver stores formats to 'win' against their local competition yet remain true to Tesco core principles. Countries were Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Poland and TurkeyWhilst in role had responsibility to create 5,000m hypermarkets, 3,000m destination discount stores and 1,000m soft discount stores to compete against German discount chains requiring siginifcant operational model changeAlso created the 'Tesco way' for Convenience stores which documented best practice to deliver convenience stores across the 13 Tesco countries.

Led the format planning for the UK business, built and led the operational and services design team which concentrates on complex operational retail projects, pharmacy, customer services desk, back area etc. Also step changed and ran the innovations process for Tesco UK driving and delivering change to this fast paced innovative business

Created Tesco 'Global Hypermarket' model rolled out across the world and implemented in Thailand, Korea, Poland, Hungary, Czech & Slovak Republic and supported the new countries of Malaysia. From this I was required to take this model back to the UK and open first UK Global Hypermarket in Newcastle. Store opened with significant success and became the basis for all Tesco Extra going forward. Then coached UK team to create 80,000 and 60,000 sq. ft. versions