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Elly S. Valas  

Edutaining' & motivational keynotes and workshops on business management, entrepreneurship & family business/ succession.

Elly Valas is President and CEO of Valas Consulting Group, LLC. Her personal mission is to help independent retailers gain market share and compete successfully against the giants in the marketplace.

From 1992 through 2003, Ms. Valas was the President and CEO of The North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA), a trade association providing training, consulting and business services to independent retailers in the consumer electronics, home appliance and furniture industries.

Prior to joining NARDA in, Ms. Valas spent over twenty years as a retailer in the grocery, sporting goods, consumer electronics and home appliance industries

In addition to the in-store consultations she conducts, Ms. Valas presents seminars on business planning, relationship-based selling, family business management and marketing as well as her keynote addresses Guerrilla Retailing and From Ordinary to Extraordinary. She has worked with retailers throughout the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.

She is the co-author of the book Guerrilla Retailing. Her next book Lessons from the Back Nine will be out in late 2007.

She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and a professional member of the National Speakers Association.

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