Private speaking agent Amy Gray has spent decades with the top .01% of paid speakers - those who have consistently made $25,000+ per engagement. In this session, she'll share her playbook for paid speaking engagements that will boost your chances for entry into the top .01% in the industry. From where corporate keynote buyers are sourcing talent, to tips for building your speaker website, to where you should be showing up to gain advantage over your competition, Amy will help you expand of the success of your primary career and build visibility, influence and income in your launch as a paid public speaker.
Amy's career in the paid speaking industry is highly unique and spans more than three decades. After nearly ten years as a high-ticket, corporate keynote buyer and global conference producer, she went to the 'dark side' and became a speaker's agent in 2001 -- but not at a speakers bureau or talent agency. Instead, she created a new category of representation: Personal, in-house speaker's agent --- at the request of someone who spent three years on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Feel free to ask her about that, it is a crazy story! In this role, she handled the paid speaking inquiries and negotiations for several high-profile individuals, cultivated a personal network of 538 individual speakers agents from the top bureaus and agencies in the world, and became a member of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB) - even though she doesn't operate a speakers bureau. It turns out, that the IASB doesn't have a category for what she does, yet they allowed her to join anyway - and her membership offers rare insights into this important industry group and an insider perspective on their behavior, pressures, motivations, strengths, and weaknesses.
