Valentina Stollar
World-Class Specialist in Business Negotiations

Brings a unique experience that can only be offered by an expert who has conducted hundreds of Negotiation workshops in Asia, Middle East, Australia and Europe

Valentina who holds degrees in Law, Arts/Economics and Education founded Aspire Training – a global management consultancy firm, specializing in Human Resource Development. She regularly conducts workshops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, England, the Middle East as well as Australia. She specialises in strategy advice, joint venture preparation and conducting negotiations. Her portfolio includes the construction, manufacturing, maritime, energy, oil, telecommunications, airline, engineering, retail, insurance and banking industries as well as the government sector. Her expertise in the design and implementation of negotiation consulting projects and specially tailored training workshops has seen her meet very demanding client specifications.

Her emphasis on being both practical and flexible while producing tangible results has become the identifying characteristic of her training programs. Her expanding practice in Australia includes clients such as ANZ Bank, Caltex, Energy Australia Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales, Commonwealth Bank, National Bank, Alcan Australia, AMP, The Northern Territory Police, Woodside Offshore Petroleum as well as Queensland Treasury Corporation, Office of Premier and Cabinet, Telstra and other public sector organizations.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Valentina worked for the Australian Institute of Management, where as human resource manager she specialized in providing their Management Training programs, as well as workshops in Effective Negotiating Skills, Persuasive Communication and Conflict Resolution. She was responsible for many successful in-company activities with organizations such as Boyne Smelters, Queensland Cement and Lime and Readymix.

Before joining A.I.M., Valentina worked as a management consultant with the Queensland Electricity Generating Board. Among her key roles was responsibility for training line managers to improve the productivity and effectiveness of their people and in the area of industrial, legal and contractual negotiations.

In negotiation training, Valentina can advise and help with almost any single negotiation situation, be it international, legal, professional, cross cultural, sales or commercial. She has worked with groups as varied as Russian bank managers, Chinese medical professionals, Australian police force, engineering consulting firms and national government bodies.