Kunal has a work experience of 24 years both in Fortune 500 companies as well as small-medium enterprises in Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, IT & ITES, Manufacturing and Telecom, Media and Space Selling.
He has held Senior Management Positions in the past and his expertise lies in Strategic Planning, Sales & Marketing, P&L Management, Business Development, Alliance Management, Operations Management, Distribution Management, Turnaround Management, Cost Rationalization, New Set ups/ Start-ups, Leadership Acumen, Persuasive ability to build rapport, Training Material Development, Problem Solving Ability and Customer Retention.
Over the last two years he has been involved in training and development as an Independent Trainer. He has conducted programs across India, Nepal and Bangladesh having trained more than 2000 associates at Entry/Middle/Senior management levels for different clients.
He has a dynamic presence and firebrand style of delivery which is further enhanced by the two decades of rich experience in areas like Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Corporate and Institutional Business and Marketing in the course of his illustrious career.
He is a powerful, versatile, perspicacious and forthright Motivational Speaker. As a trainer he has an innate and uncanny understanding of audience needs and delivers accordingly. He brings on board an Indian as well as a Global perspective, citing practical examples thus making the concepts lucid and easy to grasp. He has the ability to hold a large audience, multi task and adhere to stringent deadlines for the deliverables.
Kunal has been conducting workshops in Business Communication/Communication for Impact, Selling/Consultative Selling skills, Service Excellence, Capabilities Enhancement, Handling Irate Customers, Personal Effectiveness, Sales to Success, Leadership and Team Dynamics which has helped to make super performers out of ordinary men and women.
He is a result-oriented professional trainer and marketing consultant with strong analytical ability, presentation skills and expertise in providing strategic training insight, direction towards the development of the individuals. He is skilled at communicating & motivating team members to enhance strategic goals, top line and bottom line objectives.
Kunal’s core competent training areas include Soft Skills, People Management, Customer Management, Performance Coaching, Assertive Communication, Team Building, Professional Skills, Time and Stress Management, Leadership and Goal-setting, Conflict Management, Sales Training and Outbound Training.
Kunal is a Management Graduate for IIM, Kozhikode and a Pre-Licentiate in Life Insurance from the Insurance Institute of India. He also is a certified C-Sales Observer for Mercedes Benz and has conducted various Assessments for their Human Resources Department.
Some of the clients he has trained include HDFC Bank Ltd, Kotak Bank, Punjab National Bank, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, ICICI Prudential AMC, Tata Motors Ltd, Mahindra Construction Equipment, John Deere Finance, Hindustan Unilever, Godrej Prima, C-Sales-Mercedes Benz, Maruti Suzuki, Bajaj Financial Services, Swaraj Tractors, Tafe Tractors, Times of India, Divya Bhaskar, Sabarkantha DCCB, Standard Chartered Bank, Tractor India.
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati