Helen Logas

Helen Logas from Travelcorp shares her advice on how to manage your team through business disaster.

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Travelcorp founder Helen Logas has no doubt about her greatest strength - her ability to negotiate. It is this skill on which she has built her travel firm Travelcorp, which posted revenue of $6.15 million in 2008-09 and has recorded average annual growth of 47.24% over the past three years

Principal Helen Logas has survived before by pursuing an aggressive strategy, and says if businesses want to survive they must do the same.

When founder Helen Logas started corporate Travelcorp in 1994 she wasn't exactly sure which area of the travel sector she was going to concentrate on. But she quickly found her niche in corporate travel, and after more than a decade has built Travelcorp into one of Australia's fastest growing corporate travel management companies, with revenue soaring by an average of 60% in the past three years to hit $63 million in 2007-08 (up from $35 million in 2006-07).