Women in the Speaking Industry
?Sylvie di Giusto?
International 3D Immersive Holographic Keynote Speaker ?? Emotional Intelligence for Sales and Leadership ?? Helping professionals make intentional choices to sell faster, leader better and persuade instantly
Happy International Women's Day 2022 #IWD2022
I love what I do, I really do. Nevertheless, there's something I love even more—using my passion, skills, and talent to shine the spotlight away from me on others. Whether it's on my audience, whom I believe to be the true stars of the show, my clients and partners whom I never take for granted, or my fellow speakers who inspire me with their stagecraft, insights, and shared passion to pick up a mic and give their everything to each and every audience member.
Thus, please allow me to introduce you to some of the great women and #femalekeynotespeakers in our industry who have blessed me with their friendship and mutual respect, as well as their never-ending support. Personally, I have watched them perform on stage, share their insights in a unique way, make audiences laugh until they cried, and treat their clients respectfully just as I do.
You found a match?
My hope is that you'll scroll through this list and stumble over a topic that is relevant for your upcoming event. If you are an #eventprof, #meetingplanner, #corporateplanner, #humanresources professional, or #speakersbureau, reach out to them and see how you can cooperate to create a memorable experience for your audience. Just keep in mind, none of these women want to be hired because of their gender. Instead, contact them...
You didn't find a match?
No worries. I've got you covered. As you scroll down, you'll find well-established #speakingindustry experts who know the #speakermarket like no one else. See, there are literally thousands of women who share their knowledge, expertise, insights, and stories behind a microphone—it can be quite overwhelming. You can reach out to any of these #talentmanagers and #speakersbureaus that specialize in matching speakers to conferences. They continuously take the time to learn about us, our topics, and our speaking styles, and they place their entire efforts into finding the ideal speaker for your event at no cost to you.
You are missing on this list?
I bet you do! But let's face it, there are only a limited number of fellow #femalespeakers that I could list. It is quite possible that I have simply forgotten about you, I might have simply overseen you, maybe we've never met in person, and after all, who am I to publish a list like this?! Blame it on me but don't be bitter, don't be shy. Instead, be brave and contribute to the celebration by adding your own name and subject matter expertise to the comments. There is no underrepresentation of women in this industry; they are just not given the attention they deserve. Make sure that this is not going to happen to you and tell us who you are so that we will be able to celebrate you too.
Dear fellow Wonderwomen, it's an honor and a privilege to be part of this industry, surrounded by women (and men) who support each other, encourage one another, and cheer for everyone who is bold enough to pick up a microphone. ??
Now, scroll away and meet ...
Jeanette is a human performance and wellbeing culture keynote speaker who shares why we need to rethink self-care and redefine resilience to adapt to change and harness our humanness. She shows how we can obtain both personal and organizational health and achieve sustainable success by creating a company culture of care.
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Colette?is a human behavior expert and keynote speaker who teaches audiences how to transform relationships through the power of connected conversations. Her presentations weave together powerful life lessons, research-backed strategies, and the call to action for personal and professional success.
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Christine ignites your team with action-driven life hacks. She shares her expertise on conflict resolution, stress management, and cultivating a happier more productive workplace. Her effortless ability to pull in any audience with her remarkable insights on commonplace situations make her and her messages unforgettable.
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Shirley provides strategic development that enables organizational leaders to build high-performing and inclusive cultures to thrive in a competitive and changing environment. She specializes in HR strategy development, talent management, diversity & inclusion, leadership effectiveness, personal and professional reinvention.?
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Rachel is your real-life guide to getting the best out of your relationships, your teams, and your one freaking amazing life. With humor, practical tips, and real-life tidbits, she helps your audiences go from socially awkward to effortlessly relatable including connecting to yourself, other people, and an incredible life.
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Sylvie uses her corporate experience and multicultural background to help audiences understand?how people make up their minds quickly about them and either open the door or slam it shut.?She takes them on an interactive journey that reveals how others perceive them and thus perceive the value of their abilities, services or company.?
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Melanie is a recognized keynote speaker and one of the world's leading experts in native advertising and branded content. She was the first editor of branded content at The New York Times, where she wrote native ads. Today, she?teaches audiences to brainstorm better, think like journalists and tell better brand stories.
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Erica is a recognized leading authority, keynote speaker, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. She shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of digital teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness
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Meredith wants businesses to stop viewing uncertainty as something that prevents them from being successful.?As a recognized Keynote Speaker, she shares how organizations despite economic downturns and depressions, world wars, and even a global pandemic were able to create powerful growth opportunities from their uncertain times.
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Tami focuses on a variety of topics around leadership, employee engagement, client connection, and culture strategy with a direct link back to retention, productivity, and profitability. She celebrates and motivates audiences, engages and empowers employees, creates communication cohesion, boosts confidence, and busts stress.?
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Laurie shares her practical point of view on customer service and staff development with audiences, with real-life examples and proven action steps for improvement. As a keynote speaker, she presents sought-after and impactful strategies to find and retain the best staff and highest-quality customers while delivering exceptional guest experiences.
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Kindra is a keynote speaker who inspires teams and individuals to better communicate the value of their company, their products, and their individuality through strategic storytelling. Using her blueprint for effective storytelling, attendees leave empowered to close more sales and build better relationships by leveraging the irresistible power of their stories.
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Stacey equips leaders within organizations to communicate with confidence, presence, and authenticity, day in and day out.?As a keynote speaker, she teaches audiences to get rid of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely and shares everything they need to know from A to Z to influence others to take action.?
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Sally can describe exactly how your own individual personality is most likely to persuade and captivate any prospect within seconds.?As a keynote speaker, Sally applies her branding experience to people, showing them how to become more valuable, admired, and loved. She also believes that different is better than better!
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Judi helps teams, companies, & humans use the improv mindset to open the door to what’s possible. As a keynote speaker, she empowers audiences to manage fear by arming them with the tools to make lasting changes and maximize their personal potential so they can turn obstacles into opportunities
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Neen is a leadership expert who challenges audiences to prioritize focusing on what matters most in their work and lives. She shares implementable strategies that help employees avoid distractions, stop interruptions, prioritize daily objectives and say ‘no’ to requests that steal time from real goals and priorities.
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Jill helps organizations navigate the digital communication space to attract customers, increase sales, and retain clients. As a keynote speaker, she helps audiences understand how the words they use, influence decisions and how they can take their communication and transform it into a message that drives action.
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Kitara is originally from the inner city of Chicago, was forced to join a gang and was stabbed and beaten when she left.?As a keynote speaker, she uses both her education and her personal experience in diversity, equity and inclusion, to bring audiences from where they are, to where they want and should be.
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Mary focuses on teaching professionals to navigate the economy, build their business, be a true leader and get more done. Her leadership solutions help audiences create energetic workplaces for greater productivity and profitability. Mary’s relatable, no-nonsense approach inspires audiences to embrace their roles, surpass their goals, and plan for the future.?
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Anna engages audiences with her practical strategies for attracting, growing, and retaining top talent and loyal clients from every generation. She integrates communications, sociology, business psychology, and demography to unify workplaces and dramatically improve company performance.?
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Carey was the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot—a pioneer in military aviation. Having flown missions worldwide as a combat, she is used to working in fast-moving, dynamic environments where inconsistent execution can generate catastrophic results. Today, she helps audiences triumph in this high-risk, time-crunched world.
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Ann knows what it's like to keep a secret. To feel afraid to step out of the shadows and be who she really was. As a keynote speaker, she shares the story of how she transitioned from living as a highly decorated male military officer and combat Veteran to a woman whose mission is now all about helping others achieve their best selves.
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Sarah is the wonder woman of networking and event design. She helps clients weave in peer-to-peer interactions throughout the conference experience, designing receptions and facilitating sessions rich in Connexity (connections & community). As a keynote speaker, she shares strategies and insights with audiences on how to be a more effective connector.
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Kate is also known as the “Tech Humanist.” She helps humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future with her signature strategic optimism. As a keynote speaker, she shares how data and emerging technologies like AI are shaping the future of human experiences, and advocates for humanity’s future in an increasingly tech-driven and exponentially-changing world.
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Jess inspires audiences to have difficult conversations, stand up and take action, work together better, and take responsibility for who and how they show up. She uses history and her own struggles to showcase that we are all good enough?now, helps audiences lead and maintain a more inclusive, and dare she says fun workplace environment.
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Michelle is a creative and passionate social entrepreneur, keynote speaker, fear-facer, and branding strategist. She shows audiences how to challenge their comfort zone to tap into their full potential—based on first-hand experience as she is the creator of the project "100 Days Without Fear."
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Allison helps audiences to speak clearly, concisely, and confidently. In her keynotes, she is all about exercising leadership with your voice, connecting with your passion, and finding the courage to speak your mind. As a former opera singer and folk singer, she also uses music as a way to help people find their voice at work or in their community.
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Marilyn motivates?audiences to get out of their comfort zone and get a front-row seat in life. As a keynote speaker, she helps them improve their morale, teamwork, and communication skills and ultimately achieve more results.?She encourages them to be the best manager, boss, partner, executive that they can be and illuminate the path for others.
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Claude serves as the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia, and oversees talent management, employee experience & retention, learning & development, coaching, culture, internal communications, and recruitment. As a keynote speaker, she shares her insights into emotional optimism and heart-centered leadership.
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Jeanne is a leadership advisor and collaboration specialist who helps boards, CEOs and executive teams get big things done even when the people involved have differing agendas and opinions. She speaks about agility, conflict, leadership, communication, and organizational culture and gets to the heart of the matter—the devotion factor.
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Tina knows women are far more empowered together than they ever can be alone. In her keynotes, she shares why women need women, how they can take up space in the world that tells them to shrink themselves and about leading with their innate abilities. She helps women learn that their story matters, their community matters and that they matter.
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Crystal works with organizations that want to leverage technology to increase profits and productivity. As a keynote speaker, she presents complex technology topics with a non-tech jargon approach and makes them easy to understand and accessible for everyday professionals and small business owners, across generations.?
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Tamsen focuses on how to find and build the stories partners, investors, clients, and customers will tell themselves—and others. Part message strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator,?and of course part keynote speaker, she helps audiences drive action with their ideas.
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Cassandra enables organizations to grow through major change and significant shift by harnessing the power of emotion. She energizes her audiences as the Change Enthusiast, whether they are undergoing mergers, acquisitions, start-ups, explosive growth, or significant contraction due to today's economic climate.
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Heather provides strategic context and?actionable steps to inspire caring leadership at work. She navigates complex social dynamics and is dedicated to creating opportunities for organizational leaders, teams, and individuals to learn strategies for reframing adversity while empowering leaders to change their workplaces for the better.
*CSP = Certified Speaking Professional (Learn more )
*CPAE = Council of Peers Award for Excellence (Learn more )
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Women experts in the speaking industry helping you find the perfect speaker for your next event
This is just a small selection of some of the amazing women in our industry who have the expertise to find the right speaker for your next event. No, talent managers and speaker bureaus do not just connect you to celebrities (though they can if you desire.) These women can also pair you with the perfect keynote speaker who aligns with your event goals and your audience needs. They have a very deep and wide network, and I cannot stress enough how much time and effort they put into learning about us, our areas of expertise, and our individual speaking styles. Moreover, their support goes way beyond simply selecting the right speaker. They handle logistics, from contracts to AV needs to coordinating pre-event calls and tech checks—simply said they save you (and us speakers) time and stress. They have your back along every step of planning and executing your event.
Monica is a seasoned professional with 20+ years of client management experience. Colleagues describe her as a progressive, driven, down-to-earth, sales professional and exceptional relationship builder, who can be relied on to offer superior solutions that deliver profitable results on time and under budget.
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Bobbie is the founder of Innovation Women, an online “visibility bureau” helping drive visibility for entrepreneurial, technical, and innovative women through speaking engagements. She has a soft spot for the under-served and under-represented in the high-tech community and helps event organizers avoid all-male panels.
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Angela founded Midwest Speakers Bureau in 1998 and since every then enjoys learning about your needs so she can help you find a speaker.?To her, there’s no greater satisfaction than seeing the speaker on stage, watching an audience react, and knowing that you helped create that experience, one that influences them personally or professionally.
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Nicole has many years of experience in sales, marketing, and advertising and as a SpeakInc Partner, she listens to your objectives and applies her expertise to help busy people—like you—find the best keynote speakers or entertainment—the right talent for any event.
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Esther is the founder and CEO of Eagles Talent. Her responsibilities and obligations of operating her speakers bureau are many and varied but include taking special care of her own roster of clients. She thoroughly enjoys staying abreast of trends in the meeting and convention industry, as well as having an eye out for the next impacting speaker.
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Ivy works as a trusted advisor on the Gotham Artist team in their efforts to determine and secure the perfect speakers for the events you are hosting. Her relationships with both independent speakers and bureaus around the world ensure her ability to curate the best ideas regardless of a speaker's affiliation for you.
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Karen is the founder and CEO of CMI Speaker Management, representing A-list speakers and entertainers across various specialties.?She represents business speakers that are the cream of the crop in their areas of expertise. She always focuses on building a?relationship full of integrity and fun for both-her clients and speakers.
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Kathy is the Managing Director of the SHRM Speakers Bureau. She recruits speakers and identifies potential platforms and conferences offering a full array of public personalities and viewpoints on business-related topics. As SHRM's in-house agent she represents both—clients and speakers—with her vast amount of knowledge in this industry.
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Julie is the founder of Speaker Exchange Agency and has more than 20 years of sales and customer service background in the speaking industry.??She is known for her dedication, quick response time, passion, and commitment to her speakers and clients and finds joy in helping clients and speakers connect.
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Li is the founder of Goleeward and?connects dynamic, world-class business and motivational speakers with business event planners, marketing leaders, and executive business leaders to make your event exceed expectations and truly ‘WOW’ your audience. Her service is backed by deep expertise in strategic planning, team leadership, and talent management.
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Michelle relies on more than two decades of event industry experience. She helps meeting planners, speaker bureaus, association members, and executive decision-makers find the ideal speakers for their events, create memorable experiences for every audience, and eliminate risk through trusted advice.
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Jennifer is an established performer herself and therefore knows both sides—from client to speaker perspective. With a firm understanding of the convention market and a solid relationship with a roster of the most accomplished speakers,?she can help you find your next perfect speaker.
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Rhonda is?the founder and CEO of Flock Theory, a hybrid agency with a single-minded focus: to unleash workforce performance for associations and the communities they serve. She offers future-forward learning strategies for her clients and top talent that aligns with your business priorities.
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Farah is the co-founder of Speakers Spotlight, a Canada-based, worldwide operating agency that represents business visionaries, athletes, political leaders, entertainers, adventurers, and inspiring individuals. She knows how critical it is that the speakers you put in front of your audience exemplify the values of your organization.
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Blanche founded her speakers bureau Powell Kohne Associates in 1997 and ever since continues her work with clients across the United States and beyond, helping them find the best speakers, celebrities, and entertainers for their events, large and small. Building relationships is what Blanche is all about!
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Nancy is the founder and CEO of her own boutique speakers bureau. Three decades ago, her bureau was born out of love and respect for the spoken word, and the impact a single message can have on a life. She hand-selects her speakers and brings her clients fresh ideas, in tune with current trends, meetings themes, and budgets.
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Braylyn is part of Crown Speakers Bureau, founded by an industry insider who had serving the customer in mind. She coordinates all activities for planned and impromptu business projects?and specializes in helping corporations, associations, and meeting planners select the perfect speaker for their events.
Happy International Women's Day to all the trail-blazing women within and beyond our industry. I appreciate and celebrate you!
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Keynote speaker and corporate trainer?Sylvie di Giusto , CSP takes audiences around the world on an entertaining and?engaging journey that reveals how others perceive them and thus perceive the value of their abilities, their services, or their company.
Connector of People & Things | Maximizer | Human-centered Leader
2 年I love this SO much, ?Sylvie di Giusto? !! I'm not sure why we haven't connected, yet... especially since I recognize your name as someone whom Ivy Gustafson speaks so highly. Going to fix that now! :)
Host/Emcee/Moderator at Gotham Artists
2 年Everything about this is amazing! And thanks for the invitation to introduce myself. I’m Eva Saha, professional host, MC, and moderator represented by Gotham Artists. Nice to meet you, Wonder Woman!!!!
Anti-Lonely Leadership?| Speaker/Trainer, Mental Wellness & Human Connection | Voice/Stage Actor and Author | Keynotes, Books, Radio, Podcasting and Performance | Musical Theatre FanGirl
2 年Sylvie, I just did a full scroll and am going to connect with each and every one! Following your advice to be brave and add my name to this amazing gang. I'm the Authir of Happier Made Simple, and my signature program teaches: Connect, Create, Communicate. The power of the words we choose and the connection we share!
Host of Resilience Rocks Sales Podcast | Author of How to be Resilient | Founder at Academy of Resilience | Resilience Keynote Speaker
2 年Lots of familiar faces here. Great list Sylvie, thank you for the effort you went to in curating and sharing!
Operational Inclusion Expert | TEDx Speaker | Inspirational Storyteller Real Inclusion happens one story at a time.
2 年So absolutely honored to be among such powerful voices! Thank you ?Sylvie di Giusto?and - Jessica Pettitt, MBA, CSP, MEd for thinking of me!