Karl is the retail consultant that global brands trust. With over 25 years’ experience of working with major retailers, he is one of the world’s most respected retail business consultants.

Through Visual Thinking, Karl has designed and implemented many ground breaking brand delivery improvement strategies and successful visual merchandising programmes for leading international retail brands and store groups.

These have included transforming the shopping experiences of many UK and European general merchandise retailers with new store concepts and VM delivery, and global merchandising programmes for automotive, telecoms and electronics brands. Karl also frequently designs and implements international training and development programmes for senior retail management teams.

Karl has long championed more successful brand delivery through effective VM instore as the essential strategic response to improve retail performance. Today, visual merchandising is a recognised boardroom topic, and front of mind for the industry’s senior retail voices.

As an international retail consultant and commentator, Karl’s opinions are often sought by the media. A comprehensive summary of Karl's media work can be found within the blog section of this site and at www.karlmckeever.com

Jeanette is a very highly regarded retail professional, who worked in senior store operations, marketing and communications roles before joining VT from the Sears Retail Group in 1997.

Working in the UK and international retail markets, Jeanette’s knowledge is considerable. She has worked around the world on major projects such as the integration of a fashion offer for Australia’s leading grocery retailer. Closer to home, Jeanette has led ambitious and successful brand improvement programmes for brands such as M&S and Sainsbury’s.

Passionate about delivering customer-focused client solutions, Jeanette is renowned for transforming corporate retail strategy into effective implementation plans, which are then successfully delivered on the ground.

Jeanette really knows how to get the best out of people, whether it’s for clients or our own team members. An experienced trainer in all development situations, she creates bespoke visual merchandising training solutions in a variety of new media formats, such as DVDs, manuals and e-learning solutions to help retailers to implement and sustain their brand delivery objectives.

Her work frequently changes retailers’ fortunes by helping to improve their shopping experiences, and that’s why people from the UK’s biggest retailers ask for her by name.

Brendan is a highly skilled retail and visual professional, who joined Visual Thinking from Boots in 2006. He has a wealth of experience of working to improve visual merchandising and instore brand delivery across a broad range of product categories, for some of the most exciting names in retail.

His expertise covers a wide range of retail brand delivery disciplines including store operations, retail implementation, store planning, visual merchandising and seasonal promotions development roles.

Having worked for well-known and respected brands like Marks & Spencer, Boots, Harley-Davidson and Oasis and several international projects including the launch of Kids destination store Baroue (MS Retail) in Kuwait, Brendan is accomplished at developing commerically focused creative solutions for retail improvement projects that have a tangible benefit to the brand, its customers and the bottom line.

A real people person and an accomplished project manager, Brendan has an unrivalled attention to detail for keeping projects on track and delivering the agreed project outcomes. He makes things happen on time and within budget.