Elaine Allison

Elaine Allison

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Kelowna, British Columbia

Leadership | Customer Service and Sales | Customer loyalty And Sales Expert

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ELAINE ALLISON BIOGRAPHY

Elaine Allison (Certified Speaking Professional), is known as a Customer Care Advocate and is an international keynote speaker, trainer, consultant, and author of the bestselling book The Velvet Hammer: PowHERful Leadership Lessons for Women Who Don’tGolf.

Elaine Allison is passionate about transforming companies and organizations via modern customer service strategies to be number one in their industry. You can expect happier customers who return more often, and recommend you to all their friends, higher revenues, a larger share of the market, and a stronger company. With extremely successful results in helping organizations become #1 in Customer Care – as voted by customers. Elaine delivers powerful keynotes and learning programs that have an impact on audiences. They leave with techniques in their back pocket that can be used immediately.

Elaine Allison has insider knowledge and experience in both customer service skills and unique training methods to ensure learning takes place and the techniques taught are used immediately. For many years, she was on the front lines facing the toughest customers on the planet, day in and day out. It forced Allison to innovate and optimize her methods and approaches to turn every angry customer and hopeless crisis into a win for the company.

And given that today’s consumer shares their experience via online reviews and social media as well as check these reviews before making a purchase, it’s never been more important for companies to upgrade their customer-facing employee skills to remain competitive. Her strategies and solutions are based on meeting the high expectations of today’s consumers in a competitive market. Elaine Allison has worked with sales leaders and their employees at hundreds of companies and organizations in North America.

Elaine Allison has been featured on ABC World News, Global TV, The Globe and Mail, and many networks, newspapers, and radio shows across North America. Her hands-on experience, real-life stories, and illustrations of what we encounter daily help audiences consider all their options and apply immediate solutions. Over the years, Elaine has developed training and keynotes for such industries as travel, trades, finance, insurance, military, corrections, police, retail, food services, media, technology, and healthcare.

Elaine’s messages are universal and tailored to your needs. Elaine Allison has enthralled audiences from coast to coast in both the United States, Canada, and globally with her lively presentations and affable style. She was also the recipient of the 2002 Visions of Excellence – Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

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Elaine Allison Topic Presentations

Negotiating With Your Customer: So You Can Both Get What You Want

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  • When a customer leaves dissatisfied, or you go broke trying to keep them happy, you won’t be around long to serve them. Client and customer retention is the cornerstone of any business. In fact, every business or not-for-profit organization is actually in the “relationship” business. In this session, attendees will learn the “Ask, Don’t Tell” approach. Elaine Allison believes there is no problem so great that it can’t be solved. She provides a method to understand your final options and walk away position.

I Can Fix That: Customer Service and Loyalty

Leading A Culture of Care

Are You Ready for Age Friendly Service?

Customer Service in A Connected World

Customer Service Training – Becoming #1 in Customer Care

Dealing Effectively With Harassment in the Workplace

Elaine Allison Speaking Testimonials

Elaine Allison spoke to over 5,000 of our 20 different airport client organizations in resolving customer care issues during our multi-year plan and in preparation for the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, BC. The complexity of the task and the sheer number of varying audience needs was monumental. The results were significant with high ratings from all organizations. In addition, the programs contributed to YVRAA (Vancouver International Airport Authority) winning the prestigious #1 Best Airport – North America (Skytrax) award now for 3 years in a row and since Elaine has started working with us.

Vancouver International Airport

Elaine Allison’s presentation was a resounding hit at our conference. This session received the highest rating of any workshop speaker we’ve had at our conference over the past 8 years. If you are seeking a dynamic well seasoned speaker I recommend Elaine Allison without hesitation.

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Elaine Allison Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Elaine Allison Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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