Leading Business Speakers Bureau: Motivational Speakers | Keynote Speakers | Business Speakers
INSPIRING LIVES, TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS, IMPROVING THE WORLD
BigSpeak Speakers Bureau is the leading business speakers bureau—we focus on client business challenges and match them with expert keynote speakers, who inspire performance and improve culture. At BigSpeak Speakers Bureau, our culture thrives with our core values of Communication, Optimism, Accountability, Collaboration, and Healthy growth (COACH).
Discover why over 72% of the Fortune 1000 partners with BigSpeak to advise and contract thousands of engagements. We are the Experts on the Experts and make certain our BigExperts deliver BigResults. From conference call to curtain call, our dedicated consultants and in-house event coordination team simplify your life, do all the heavy lifting and make you the hero. Whether you want a motivational speaker to inspire your team, a change management guru to generate meaningful organizational transformation or a celebrity speaker to bring high-profile and touch of class to your event, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau is your one-stop solution.
We pride ourselves on our East Coast work ethic, our integrity of the Midwest and our entrepreneurial spirit of the West Coast. Our boutique talent roster features founders of big name brands such as Netflix, Siri, Beats and others, in addition to NY Times top selling authors. We custom tailor speaking and appearance strategies for each client and speaker, based on your unique goals. We would be thrilled to work with you.
Awarded a coveted spot on the Inc 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies for several years running, our diverse team has decades of cumulative experience in the speaking industry and in various realms of business. The wealth of industry knowledge and experience our agents provide, as well as our highly collaborative approach, ensures each and every client will be matched with the perfect speaker for their unique needs to create impactful, informative, and inspiring programs. Our culture is dedicated to providing our team members with the same level of support we offer our clients, which is why we have a rating of 4.9 on Glassdoor, and 100% of those who completed reviews on the site would recommend our workplace to a friend.
Located in beautiful Santa Barbara, California, BigSpeak is a full-spectrum speakers bureau, representing the world’s finest motivational keynote speakers, consultants, experts, trainers, vanguard thought-leaders, world-class athletes, bestselling authors, award-winning entertainers, and global icons. For keynote speakers to inspire at your next conference, convention, retreat or gala, we invite you to search our “BigList” of Professional Speakers and view speaker videos. At BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau, we realize that supporting meeting planners is key to achieving the goals of our clients, and so we also offer our meeting planner tools to guide you in creating, planning, organizing and staging the best event possible.
When you’re ready to go beyond the keynote, look into our Training L&D offerings. We’ve designed and created custom meeting agendas and sustained consulting programs for the Global Fortune 1000. These highly specialized programs create high performance, entrepreneurial, values-driven organizations led by world-class speakers, consultants, and trainers who are dedicated to unleashing the potential of your employees. Please contact a BigSpeak consultant today about developing long-term business solutions for your organization.
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BigSpeak Speakers Bureau Works with the Best.
We represent the world’s top keynote, business and motivational speakers, thought leaders, and bestselling authors, including such luminaries as Magic Johnson and Richard Branson. BigSpeak continuously screens the marketplace for the best and brightest new speakers so that we bring you only top performing experts.
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BigSpeak Has a Distinctive Focus.
Through our BigSpeak Consulting programs, we focus on the corporate world’s needs by specializing in the areas of leadership, organizational transformation, change management, and the creation of high performance teams and high satisfaction work environments. Dozens of our experts have graced the pages of Fortune, Forbes and Fast Company magazines. BigSpeak provides experts who will dramatically improve the way you do business and bring about lasting change for your organization.
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BigSpeak Gets You The Speaker.
We have the tools, experience, partnerships and networking capabilities to get you almost any speaker, whether a celebrity, CEO or best-selling author.
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BigSpeak Finds the Right Speaker for You.
Our unique ExpertSelect process ensures that we’ll find the right speaker for your event.Our team will listen carefully to your needs, research availability, and identify the right speaker for you. We have speakers for every budget and can even assist you in creative ways to find funding.
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BigSpeak Handles the Details, Saving You Time and Energy.
We attend to the logistical details of your event to make your life easier. BigSpeak’s speaking professionals are with you every step of the way, from inception and theme development to contracting and event review. We know you are busy; let us handle the details.
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BigSpeak Backs You Up.
We handle any emergencies that may arise. If a speaker cannot show up, we provide an equal or better speaker to your group.
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No Additional Costs with BigSpeak
BigSpeak’s expert agents negotiate on your behalf to get the best value and services at no additional cost to you. Our speakers are glad to pass the contractual, logistical and marketing work to us so they can concentrate on performing for you.
I have been incredibly impressed with the professionalism and organizational processes of BigSpeak. I worked with them to review a long list of potential speakers all the way through to making our selection and finalizing our contract. I look forward to working with BigSpeak again.
“Honestly, everyone at BigSpeak exceeded expectation in every way. BigSpeak rose above all challenges and kept a positive attitude throughout. THANK YOU.”
“We like dealing with BigSpeak. You understand our needs and work with us.”
“You were very professional and responsive. I have already recommended BigSpeak to others.”
“As always, the talent you represent is ‘top notch’ and your staff professional and courteous. We will definitely come back to Big Speak for other events.”
“What made our BigSpeak experience great? All the attention to details, the amazing responsiveness by the BigSpeak team and the fact that I felt like you all cared about me and my event.”
“Our event was a totally positive experience from agent, coordination to presentation. BigSpeak pulled everything together for us at close to the 11th hour – very impressive.”
“Every part of this event was positive. We came out feeling successful. We felt confident with BigSpeak and with our speaker- we will use BigSpeak again in the future.”
“We hope to work with BigSpeak again and soon. You were absolutely wonderful to work with and extremely responsive to our needs and inquiries. Everyone at BigSpeak was extremely customer focused and we loved working with you. I would say that in me, you have a partner for a long time no matter where I am. Thank you for everything.”
“Our Annual Meeting was a total success! Our employees actually enjoyed the event! BigSpeak made coordination a breeze and never let us down!”
“You all made me a hero, and all I did was make a phone call to BigSpeak.”
“BigSpeak is a treat to work with. Very helpful, speedy and great service.”
“Working with BigSpeak was a worthwhile and EASY experience!”
“Working with the BigSpeak staff was a delightful experience. Contacts via phone and email were appropriate and timely. Questions were answered promptly. I felt cared for.”
“What a wonderful experience! You’ve gone above and beyond. I’ve really appreciatied working with you.”
“BigSpeak handled the whole process, from information gathering, to logistics to billing. Their patience and professionalism made them a pleasure to work with.”
“Jonathan Wygant of BigSpeak was my agent to secure Dr. Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Beverly Whipple, Pepper Schwartz, and Lee Stetson for the year I served as the education chair of the New Jersey Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. Jonathan and his staff were very professional, efficient, and understood the YPO education process. They have made my life so much easier, and I’m confident their experience will enable them to be a huge assistance to other YPO chapter education chairs.”
“Since our first interaction, you’ve done nothing but provide exceptional customer service by being responsive, resourceful and simply just willing to meet my needs. I value great customer service, but it’s a discipline that has fallen by the wayside over the recent years — you give me hope!”
“We really had an incredible experience with BigSpeak in bringing Dewitt Jones and Jeff Salz to our conference. Barrett Cordero was very responsive and helpful throughout our conference planning experience. We’re thankful to BigSpeak for their professionalism, responsiveness, and hospitality. We would choose BigSpeak again in a heartbeat!”
“I would absolutely recommend BigSpeak to any organization looking to make a positive impact on their business. They offer businesses the opportunity to connect with leaders and experts that can help motivate, train and move a strategic vision in the right direction.”
“BigSpeak did an amazing job of assisting us with our program. The program was flawless…thanks for making it so easy.”
“The BigSpeak team was thorough, friendly, customer-oriented, professional and always followed-up with requests and e-mails. Also, when we were initially considering a speaker, they did a wonderful job providing us with key information and materials about their background and performance.”
“We would have to give Amy Eddy a great big 5! Her persistence to meeting our needs for the meeting and continuing efforts to help us find just the right speaker, even on our drop-dead day for making the decision is what resulted in BigSpeak getting this business. She did an excellent job of following up and making sure everything was taken care of for our event.”
Please pass along our thanks to Mr. Ben Stein for his keynote speech and inherent southern hospitality. His energy, interest in our company and our event was simply superb. Also, thank you for helping us get together – your services and eye for detail were first rate. We enjoyed working with you.
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