Brian Walker

Brian Walker is the chief advisor of retail business fitness in Australia.

As Managing Director of  a retail consulting firm, Brian has steered his business to become the leading retail operations consulting firm specialising in multi channel retail, franchise and service sectors in every retail category.

Brian is a leading media commentator on retail issues, regularly appearing on A Current Affair, Channel 9 News and Today Tonight. Drawing on his 20 years of experience in retail operations and senior management with leading retailers such as The Athletes Foot, Optus, Angus & Coote, Westfield, KFC and Woolworths, Brian has become Australia's most sought after headline speaker on all aspects of retail. Generously sharing his proprietary 'business fitness' consulting tools, Brian's speaking topics are original, engaging, motivational and educational.

Brian is a featured columnist for Inside Retailing and Smart Company and the contributing author of on-going articles for publications such as BRW, Australian Business Solutions, RetailBiz, Tech Trader, Sydney Morning Herald and My Business. His first retail book focusing on the implementation of 'Fit Retail' is currently in production.
Brian has been awarded the International Retail Leadership Award: Asian Retail Congress and won the Australian Institute of Management's National Scholarship. He was nominated for the Business Leadership Award: CPA Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Ernst & Young and Telstra Business Awards.

He is a member of The National Speakers Association and several retail associations, including The Australian Retailers Association, The National Retailers Association, The International College of Management (advisory board member), The Australian Institute of Management and Australian Institute of Company Directors, The Franchise Council of Australia, The Australian Retail Association, The Australian Centre for Retail Studies and Ebeltoft Group, a global alliance of retail experts.

Brian Walker is a highly sought after headline speaker and commentator on all aspects of retail. Brian is an energetic, engaging and informative speaker. 

Brian presents on the following subjects:
New order retailing - A global view on retailing.  Trends, technology,  
How to win the battle - hearts and minds of customers
How to get Fit for Business, Fit for Growth and Fit for Sale based on Brian's proprietary consulting tools
How to leverage offline and online retailing 
The seven steps to business fitness and success

Client Ovations: The first time I saw Brian Walker deliver a keynote speech was at the Microsoft Retail Launch event in March 2009. Brian demonstrated deep knowledge of the subject, enthusiasm and passion and when we were considering sponsoring another event, the fact that Brian was presenting at the event was a deciding factor. Once again, Brian's presentation was engaging, inspiring, thought provoking and delivered with great skill and professionalism. Since then, we have recorded a video interview with Brian and published it on our website, to share his insights with the wider audience. Brian combines both talent, knowledge of his topics with inspiring and motivating delivery and we have no hesitation recommending Brian as a truly "fit" presenter.

Marketing Director, Professional Advantage

The Collins Street Precinct Group are a not for profit association funded by the City of Melbourne and decided to book Brian Walker, The Retail Doctor to run the a series of 4 breakfast events based on "being Fit for Business". The response to Brian's presentations has been excellent with our attendees booking for the first breakfast and each breakfast thereafter. Our numbers at the breakfasts have grown to the point that individuals are now booking tables and bringing a lot more of their staff. We would highly recommend Brian Walker, The Retail Doctor as he has certainly assisted many of our attendees to be "fit" in business with a fantastic and interactive presentation given them all something to take back to their businesses and implement.

Collins Street Precinct Group

The ODMA association recently engaged the Retail Doctor to participate in our bi-annual trade fair. In particular the Retail Doctor conducted 2 diagnostic workshops where he was able to address and answer optometrists retailing questions with great skill and relevance to their particular issues. The Retail Doctor also conducted a wonderful and highly interactive presentation to the greater conference audience on the highly relevant topic of "future Proofing retail."

Executive Director, ODMA

The Retail Doctor presented at a networking dinner which we hold annyally for our hair and beauty salon customers. The brief was to provide fresh ideas for our customers to implement in improving the retail component of their businesses. The Retail Doctor was able to show the attendees, many of whom are small business owners, how larger retail operations track their business, and some of the key indicators one should look for to improve and safeguard their operations. The evening was a success, and we found the presentation to be most informative and interesting.

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