I’m Kath Stonehouse, the founder of The Retail Toolkit.‍ ‍

I’ve had over 25 years experience in small business and the retail sector, and have spent my career building and scaling my own businesses, both retail and wholesale, as well as working with and heading up national retail franchises as a Marketing and Brand Manager and, most recently, General Manager. This background has given me a deep understanding of the retail industry and small businesses from all angles and I know what it takes to succeed. I’ve built my skills and knowledge on experience and I’m equipped to help others navigate their own business challenges as well.

I love the strategic challenge of small business. To me, it’s a bit like a chess match. Just like chess, the business needs to keep advancing so you have to take time to plan a move, making sure to know your objectives and predict the likely outcome. Only then do you make the move and then you wait to see what happens and after that, you decide on the next move.

In working with small business owners, and from my own experience, I’ve developed an approach of ensuring that change and growth is undertaken in a controlled and manageable way. This reduces risk and maximises success and, importantly, ensures that continuous improvement is achieved without putting undue demands on the owner and their resources.

My aim in founding The Retail Toolkit is to build a valuable resource that small business owners can tap into as they need. When you’re in business, you don’t have time to waste and so you need the tools at your fingertips so that you can move on to whatever is next.

The Retail Toolkit will continue to grow as we keep adding more resources, templates and strategies and advice. If you subscribe to our fortnightly email, you can stay up to date as we keep adding tools to The Retail Toolkit.

Enjoy your business, otherwise what’s the point?

Kathy

Pic: Shelby with me on the Wadandi Track, Witchcliffe, Western Australia