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3W Consulting (3WC) is a leading enterprise renewal specialist that facilitates business change and enhances corporate performance through innovative solutions.

With over 20 years’ experience in the consulting field, 3WC is a pioneer in transforming top-tier blue-chip organisations through its customized corporate consultancy and training solutions.

Since our inception, we have expanded our reach from Sri Lanka to Maldives, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Middle East and Ethiopia.

3W Consulting was founded in 1997 and have worked with;

450+

Organizations

700+

Projects

Industries

Our Clients include

Multinational Companies
Blue Chip Organizations
Global Conglomerates
Non-Governmental Organizations Associations
Government Organisations
Small & Medium Sized Enterprises

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Why Choose 3WC

3WC uses key insights and knowledge from a broad range of industries to generate competitive advantage for our clients. We place emphasis on corporate business objectives and priorities. This integral component sets the stage for 100% customized consulting and training solutions. Our approach has also proven to be our competitive advantage in the industry.

Be it routine training or high-level creative consulting, 3WC takes great pride in ensuring business success and value addition to our client’s organization through the following areas:

Corporate Consultancy Solutions (Strategy, HR, Service, Brand, Operations, Leadership)
Corporate Training Solutions (Performance, Service Excellence, Coaching & Mentoring, Organisational Assessment, Industry Training)
Advisory Solutions for Industries

Our Approach

Discover

Design

Deploy

Sustain

We dig deep to uncover your requirements with precision instead of simply scratching the surface
Our team will design a tailored solution based on your requirements. We do not prescribe “off-the-shelf” strategies/solutions
We execute the solution with professionalism, ensuring optimum receptiveness across your organization
While we walk alongside you throughout the project, we will empower you to sustain our solution independently

3WC Consultants will work closely with you to help you explore new avenues of competitive advantage. An in-depth understanding of your requirements and your organizational culture, current practices, potential and best way forward are key to arriving at a sustainable solution.

Meet Our Team

STEFAN MORAES – FOUNDER OF 3RD WAVE GROUP

Chief Architect and Principal Consultant. With over 30 years of corporate experience, one of the youngest to Head HR for a leading Blue Chip Conglomerate at the age of 30. He has consulted over 80o organizations, across 50 industries. As a consultant, he has served clients across Australia, Japan, Korea, India, UK, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Ethiopia and the Middle East. He has delivered over 2500 training and coaching man-days in his career.

YOHANN DIAS ABEYESINGHE – SENIOR CONSULTANT – DIRECTOR CONSULTING 3W CONSULTING

Yohann Dias Abeyesinghe joined the Third Wave after a long and distinguished career of 20 years at Standard Chartered Bank where he served in a number of senior leadership positions in both Sri Lanka and Singapore.

Most recently, he was a Head of Consumer Bank Operations for SC Singapore where he led service delivery teams based in Singapore, Malaysia, and India, and drove key customer service improvement and business process redesign initiatives related to Account Services, Credit Cards, Mortgages and Wealth Management products.

Yohann is a strategic thinker, who possesses a valuable blend of strong analytical and problem-solving skills. He has a solid background in Technology and Operations, particularly in the fields of Technology Solutions, Process Engineering, and Continuous Improvement, Metrics Based Performance Management, Project Management, Outsource Management, Business Continuity Management and Control and Compliance.

Yohann’s International experience includes building, training, and leading teams most recently in Singapore, India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, as well as teams in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, The Phillippines and Australia.

CHANNA FERNANDO – COO/CFO 3WC

A Career spanning over 26 years, playing several Leadership roles in Banking, and Manufacturing. He was in Branch management with HSBC, Sri Lanka and later was Head of Retail Operations of Standard Chartered, Sri Lanka & then Head of Treasury and Securities Services Operations. Was General Manager of a Wet Processing and Garment Dyeing company working with some of the world’s top Clothing Brands for nearly six years.

SASHI RATNAYAKE – CONSULTANT/TRAINER

Sashi Ratnayake is a Consultant / Trainer at 3w Consulting. Prior to joining 3wc he has served as a Freelance Journalist at Daily Mirror – business attached to Wijaya Newspapers and as a Project Manager at Edesigners (pvt) Ltd.

GAYATHRA PERERA- JUNIOR CONSULTANT

Gayathra Perera is an Associate Consultant who has been working in the telecommunications, banking, IT and retail industry with companies such as Dialog, HSBC and Big Bad Wolf Books.

THISURI DEMATAGODA – JUNIOR CONSULTANT

Thisuri Dematagoda joined 3w Consulting as a Junior Consultant. She is a graduate of the University of Westminster and completed her internship at Unilever. She has experience working as a Business Analyst at Codegen International

AKSHAYAA MAHESWARAN – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Akshayaa joined 3W Consulting as a Business Development Executive, She has completed her M.Sc in Psychology ( HRDM ) from Christ University, Bangalore, India. Prior to joining 3W Consulting, she worked part-time as an Associate Lead HR for Service4Startup. She has completed an Internship at Ceylon Biscuits Limited, Sri Lanka.

LORENZO VERONESE – SENIOR CONSULTANT IN LEAN MANAGEMENT & SIX SIGMA

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI). In 2016 he established Blue Sun Consulting, a management consulting company that specializes in Business Excellence, Lean Transformation, and data-driven methodologies applied in both service and manufacturing industries. Lorenzo is a skilled trainer able to deliver comprehensive certification programs in Lean Management and Six Sigma up to Black Belt level.

RANIL HARSHANA – SENIOR CONSULTANT CORPORATE PHYSICAL FITNESS

With over 20+ years of experience in the International fitness & sports performance industry he has started his career as a Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor for Diplomats, International Hotel Chains, Models, Kids & general population ,Diplomats, Corporate fitness for Multinational clients ranging from America, UK, Australia ,Canada ,Europe & Asia. Training areas- Physical Fitness Training, Diet Management, Stress Management & Self Defense techniques.

GRAHAM MARSHALL – SENIOR CONSULTANT MARKETING

Graham Marshall is a reputed Marketer/Corporate leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience in business and commerce.His passion for Training and teaching stems from his charismatic leadership style with which he leads his teams, and nurtures the future Marketer’s/Managers to enhance capability and skills in the ever evolving industry.As a thought provoking speaker and inspirational motivator, Graham is a guest lecturer at MBA/Graduate programs and was a lecturer for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) U.K examinations.

DAMAYANTHA SENEVIRATNE – SENIOR CONSULTANT BANKING & FINANCE

With a career spanning over 35 years in the banking & finance industry, he has played several leadership roles in retail & operations, in banking both internationally and local markets. Damayantha joined Standard Chartered in 1979, and has held senior positions at retail banking, allied operations, crafting of strategy and implementation of processes at all of these divisions to emerge as a leader in their chosen markets. He was part of the senior team that dealt with the successful acquisition and transition of the Grindlays book of business, subsequent to Standard Chartered’s global acquisition of the Grindlays Franchise in Sri Lanka

SACHITH PERERA – SENIOR CONSULTANT

Sachith Perera – Senior Consultant at 3W Advisory Former Treasurer & Head of Global Markets for HSBC Sri Lanka, a position he carried for a period of 12 years from 2005 until his early retirement in 2017. In this role he was in charge of the Bank’s foreign exchange & interest rate risk management, trading and sales of global markets products, which included both vanilla & derivative instruments, managing the Bank’s sizable balance sheet & also overlooking the custodial services for global investors of equity and debt securities in Sri Lanka. In his role he was in charge of overseeing the global market & balance sheet operations in the Maldives branch.

SARATH WEERAKOON – SENIOR CONSULTANT BANKING & FINANCE

Extensive experience in the Banking and Finance industry. He has worked at the HSBC Group Service Centre in Colombo and held senior management positions for HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives. Sarath is an expert in international trade and payment services, & has sound knowledge in cash management, commercial lending, FOREX & treasury related activities. He is an expert in credit risk management and compliance management. He is an expert in managing operational risks sand strengthening the overall operational control environment for financial institutions.

GANESH WIJENAYAKE – SENIOR CONSULTANT IT

Ganesh has over 25 years experience in the IT industry with a proven track record of local and international achievements. He has over 12 years of C-level experience and is a strategic planner and proven innovator with in-depth hands-on experience in ICT infrastructure, System Design, BPR, BPM, electronic banking, electronic money, m-commerce, system integration, IT security, e-Health, Portfolio, Program and project management.

PAUL NAVAMANI-SENIOR CONSULTANT

Experiential training facilitator: 2014 ONWARDS Facilitated training programs for both Private Companies and Government Departments as well as for several other groups such as University students, NGO staff, Micro and Small Business Owners, Vulnerable Women, Street kids, School Prefects and Urban Youth and on topics such as Change Management and Productivity, Leadership and Succession planning, Conflict resolution & Reconciliation, Strategic Planning, Empowerment and Motivation, Communication etc.

What Our Clients Say

Stefan and the 3rd Wave team have worked closely with us on projects such as the development of our organizations values and the design, implementation and launch of our performance management system. Having witnessed Stefan deliver training sessions, from a personal point of view, I have found him to be knowledgeable on the relevant subject matters, enthusiastic and passionate. He is able to relate to audiences of varying levels and aptitudes and deliver his message confidently in a professional and engaging manner. I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with stefan and the 3rd Wave team.

Salman Bin Isa Al Khalifa

Chief Executive
Bahrain International Circuit S.P.C

3WC team designed a customized program for our company to train 80 staff members in developing their professional communication proficiencies and confidence building. They have done a fabulous job and I appreciate them for maintaining a strong business relationship with us. Given the success of this programme, our organization has entrusted 3WC in building the leadership competencies of the staff members who are identified to be promoted as future leaders of the organization. I hope to have a strong business relationship with the 3rd Wave team in future as well.

Mihiri Ranasinghe

Manager Human Resources
Next Sourcing Sri Lanka

Our company obtained services from 3WC in order to enhance and improve the leadership competencies of the management team and the senior executives attached to the Naiwala plant. The solution and the training programme was customized to suit the requirements of our organization, including focus group discussions, assessment centres, an extensive 360° appraisal and a development centre to address the common challenges and fundamentals in leadership and individual coaching. We are very much satisfied and pleased with the overall programme and results.

Indunil Premaratne

General Manager
MAS Linea Aqua

We approached 3WC in order to upgrade our service levels of selected Keells Super outlets. They designed a customized solution for development of service strategy and service standards, changing the mind set of employees towards a service culture and to launch the Service Blue Prints in order to sustain the efforts. The project was managed within agreed parameters and there is a significant improvement in service delivery aspect which made a direct impact in increasing the customer satisfaction levels. The programme enabled to instil a renewed service culture and mind set amongst staff and management alike.

Charitha Subasinghe

Chief Executive Officer
Keells Super, Jaykay Marketing

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