What can one of Canada's first female prison guards

from an all-male maximum security prison at the age of 19

tell audiences about resolve?

Elaine began honing her insights into how we work and behave. 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 live, as her life virtually depended on it! Watch for her upcoming second book The Velvet Hammer Negotiates Everything They Want. Her main mission is to help audiences get to Resolve and to Find Solutions

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.

Keynote:

I Can Fix That

Guiding Principles to Resolve Anything

 Organizations are constantly up against competitive pressures,  budget constraints, loss of morale, traditional growing pains or amalgamations. Imagine what could happen if everyone could get into the mind set of resolve!!!

 With this message Elaine takes audience members on a path to realize;

• They can make a difference and contribute
• They can ignite innovation
• They can negotiate and resolve issues
• Everyone is making a choice

Participants are pushed to think, create and solve.  They leave with a smile of relief, eyes filled with excitement, brains bursting with ideas and hearts filled with hope.

 They will learn;

• There is no problem so great that it can't be solved!
• How to find 3rd ways (not always their way)
• How not to come to the fight, but bring other's toward them
• How to observe their perspectives, so they can see opportunity

Companies, associations, governments and individuals will remark on the immediate changes they feel, act upon and observe as they come upon challenges, stumbling blocks or obstacles.

 I CAN FIX THAT will make you realize the possibilities!!!

Audiences best suited for this program:  (All programs are customized)

• Executives will be able to improve morale, make tough choices, conquer budget restraints, empower their people
• Business Owners will find new customers, hone markets and discover fresh product innovations
• Sales people will figure out how to make the calls & sell more
• Customer Service people will look at every service breakdown as an opportunity
• Administrators will seek answers, solutions to multiple problems
• HR professionals will solve employee issues seamlessly

Media:
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 (they just won #1 Airport in North America and Elaine designed programs and spoke to over 5,000 employees to Welcome the World for the 2010 Olympic & Parlympic Winter Games) Others include; RCMP, US Military, TSA, Bombardier, Sonic Restaurants, Women Food Services Forum and many, many more.

Highlights:

Best Selling Author: The Velvet Hammer, PowHERful Leadership Lessons for Women Who Don't Golf

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 13 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