The handbook for professional speakers
Run a better speaking business.
Practical knowledge for building a speaking business, and a carefully chosen guide to the specialists, services and software speakers rely on.
“Every business we feature is chosen by us, on its usefulness to speakers. Payment never buys a place in the handbook.”
Our editorial promise · How we choose
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Learn
Practical guidance on building and growing a speaking business.
In preparation
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Find
Curated specialists, suppliers, software and services.
In preparation
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Travel
Practical speaker guides to important event cities.
In preparation
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Save
Useful offers, negotiated discounts and recommended technology.
In preparation
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Ask
Help finding the right supplier when a directory isn’t enough.
Open now
Ask
Need someone you can trust?
Tell us what you need - a showreel editor, a speaker website, a voice coach, help travelling to an event - and we’ll reply with people we’d recommend. Free, and never paid for.
How we choose
Chosen on merit, labelled honestly.
Payment never buys inclusion
Being featured, claiming a listing and paying for extras are separate things.
Where a business really works
We say how and where a business serves clients - not just where its office is.
Real businesses, no invented details
If we don’t know something, we leave it out.
Commercial relationships labelled
If a business pays us for anything, we say so clearly.
Run by Patrick Nelson and Esther Nelson, speaker agents at Speakers Associates. We work with speakers every day, and built the handbook to share what we’ve learned. About us