FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

What Kairos Associates does, how an engagement runs, and what the store is left holding at the end.

What does Kairos Associates do?

Kairos Associates is a dealership performance consultancy founded by Deon Ramlal. It works with dealership groups across four connected areas: dealership income development, sales and finance training, compliance and legal/ethics, and cross-discipline sales training.

Where is Deon Ramlal based?

Deon Ramlal is based in Northlake, Texas, inside the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. He works on site with dealer groups across DFW and travels nationally for multi-store engagements.

What does a training engagement actually involve?

Every engagement follows four phases: a two-day on-site assessment before any material is written; building a custom deliverable suite of facilitator guides, participant workbooks and interactive assessments; on-site delivery combining short classroom blocks with live floor coaching; and post-training performance reporting against metrics agreed at the start.

Is the training customised or off the shelf?

Every engagement is built from the ground up for the client. Programs are written against the store's own process, lender mix and product lineup — there are no off-the-shelf decks with a logo swapped in.

What does the dealership keep afterwards?

The store keeps the full deliverable suite: custom facilitator guides, participant workbooks and interactive assessments, plus post-training performance reporting. Managers are trained to run the material themselves, so the program does not leave when the consultant does.

What is “know every benefit, present the right ones”?

It is the product framework underlying every Kairos program. Producers learn every benefit of every product they carry so no customer question can break the presentation — then present only the three that fit what discovery actually surfaced about that customer.

Does Deon Ramlal train outside of automotive?

Yes. Cross-discipline sales training delivers the same fundamentals — discovery, trust-building, product fluency and disciplined closing — into any environment where trust, process and product knowledge determine the close.

Does he speak at conferences and twenty groups?

Yes. Deon presented at the 2026 NAMAD Annual Membership Meeting on selecting the right F&I product partner, and speaks at conferences, dealer twenty groups and association meetings.

How do engagements start?

With a conversation about what the store is actually dealing with, followed by an on-site assessment. No deck and no pitch before the store has been observed.

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