Craig Elias, Networking Guru

A graduate of the University of Calgary Executive MBA program where he specialized in New Venture Creation and Technology Commercialization, Craig has followed up a successful 15-year career in professional sales and management with a brilliant Professional Speaking career.  During his tenure in sales, Craig held positions ranging from Account Manager to Vice President of Sales for everything from innovative start-ups to billion dollar plus organizations.   

Now, a sought after Professional Speaker on networking and sales, Craig shares his insights into the sales process, trade secrets and the sometimes hard-learned lessons with students, business development managers, business owners, sales professionals, presidents and CEO’s. 

Craig inspires participants to become a person of influence by helping others achieve success.  His seminars focus on helping individuals and organizations achieve greater sales success by going beyond Networking to Connecting. 

Offering valuable insights into the ‘psychology of selling’, Craig helps participants understand the selling process, and how they can create ‘emotional favouritism’ within their network.  Craig’s message is simple: you will achieve success by shifting your perspective from selling to helping others.  When you shift your focus to building lasting relationships and helping others achieve success, you become the emotional favourite and your success is inevitable. 

“Craig’s story of working at Worldcom is a very powerful story.  It’s a classic Dale Carnegie story ‘If life hands you lemons, make lemonade’ and Craig excels at making lemonade.” 

Mark Ruthenberg, President Calgary Chapter of Alberta New Media Association

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