Do you want a funny, entertaining, educational speaker

who uses real-life applications wrapped around sound theories?

CSP, Elaine Allison is an international speaker and author of The Velvet Hammer. She has enthralled audiences from coast to coast in both the United States and Canada with her lively presentations and affable style.

Elaine began honing her insights into the differences between how we work with each other. She was one of Canada’s first female prison guards in an all “male” maximum security correctional facility at the age of nineteen before moving on to different senior corporate roles including; managing over 1400 flight attendants. Elaine had a “crash course” in understanding how we interact, communicate and lead people, as her life virtually depended on it! Watch for her upcoming book The Velvet Hammer Negotiates a Raise and Everything Else She Wants in Life. Her main mission is to help leaders - "Be the One They Stay For" and Get People Engaged - To Find Solutions

Engaged Leaders - Engaged People

Most requested Keynote topics include;

• Be The Leader They Stay For
• "Can-Do" Working With Multi-Generations

All presentations can be customized by "engaging" participants before the session is designed.

Training Topics: Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Presentation Skills

Elaine has been seen on ABC World News, Global TV, CBC, SHAW TV and featured in the Houston Chronicle, The Milwaukee Journal, The New York Albany Times, Globe & Mail and every large city paper across Canada as well as over 100 radio shows.

Clients include: YVR (Vancovuer) Airport Authority, RCMP, US Military, TSA, Bombardier, Sonic Restaurants, Women Food Services Forum and many, many more.

Highlights:

2002 Visions of Excellence, Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Recipient of the CAPS Vancouver "Quantum Leap Award and the "Peter Legge, Story Teller of the Year Award".

She is one of only 11 female speakers in Canada and 10% of speakers globally who hold the presitigious CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation.

Formal education in Curriculum Design and Adult Education