MY PROFILE: ME, MYSELF & I

KD Ismail is the STYLE & SPEECH SPECIALIST. She is the COO and creator of LANGUAGE POWERHOUSE & the head consultant for POWERHOUSE NETWORK SERVICES. She holds a TESL degree with honors from Edinburgh University, Scotland and a certified Creative Color & Image Specialist as well as a Malaysian Holistic Spa practitioner. She has been in the Consultancy game since 1994. She has a comprehensive background in the training industry as well as Corporate Image Consultation and Personal Branding. Her experience spans from teaching in schools to corporate communication, corporate consulting, speechwriting, public relations, copywriting & translation, as well as wellness & beauty training. KD has a passion for revamping her clients’ style, brand image and communication skills to increase their confidence and create more wealth.

She has taught Image Styling, Personal Branding & Communication Skills for Public Listed Companies through in house training as well as Public seminars . She appeared on TV2 as a consultant for 10 episodes of Imej 2 programme in 2004 while running her spa wellness business and was a consultant and speaker alongside Datuk Maznah Hamid in the ‘Gerak Usahawan’ program in 2006 and 2007.

Throughout the years, she has conducted public seminars and in-house training where her clients include Datuk Maznah Hamid, Billi Lim, HR Marketing S/B, Beauty4U, Couseling Teachers for Selangor schools, RISDA, SEDC, Damansara Asset, Systematic College, Convenient Shopping Sdn. Bhd., JPWP, financial institutions like Maybank, HSBC, Bank Pembangunan, hotels such as JW Mariott, Shangri-La, Dorsett Regency, Langkawi Beach Resort, Nikko Hotel, The Zon, and Quality Hotel among others.

At the same time, she consults companies on the writing of SOP and Training Manuals as well as strengthening the personal brand of business leaders. Simultaneously, she enhances the effectiveness of marketing materials, press releases, and PR documents for more profitable corporate branding and positioning.

Her works include translating materials for the National Museum (Muzium Negara), producing SOP and Training Manuals for the Therapeutic Department of NURA Wellness Centre, managing Datuk Maznah Hamid’s personal brand and Maznah Motivational Centre’s corporate brand resulting in a 52% increase in the company’s revenue, creating and designing learning modules , writing business proposals, writing Sales Letters that generated over a million RM worth of business, and heading the operations of Language Powerhouse (a language & traning centre) & POWERHOUSE NETWORK SERVICES (a consultancy firm).

KD Ismail delivers a session that is immediately applicable to the real world, focusing on skills and not theories. Participants can expect a great learning experience and an impactful session. She has the gift of handling learners from all ages and adapting her teaching approach to suit their levels. Her strength lies in the combination of her knowledge as an ESL educator and her business and corporate background enabling her to draw on real life experiences. Her basic purpose in life is to empower people applicable skills on style and speech so that they can improve their lives!