How to Find Speaking Opportunities

If you’re reading this, the chances are high that you have already decided public speaking is a good move for you. You’ve worked out the ‘why.’ Perhaps it’s because you feel stuck in a professional rut and you need that next step up — to amplify your visibility and give brand ‘you’ a boost. Public speaking is a direct line to business opportunities and professional growth. Perhaps it’s part of your career progression (your boss suggesting it is a “sign”,) or perhaps you’re tired of attending industry events and hearing the same kinds of voices on stage.

You are a brand. Your brand needs marketing. Are you ambitious? Do you deserve that promotion/next step up the ladder/corner office? Of course you do!

Now all you have to do is work out the ‘how.’ How to find speaking opportunities? (Helpful hint. There are literally hundreds on our sister site! You can get access to them. Sign up for Innovation Women!)

The answer to how to find speaking opportunities is multilayered. Any cursory google search (“call for speakers”) can cough up multitudinous opportunities (we share 100s of opportunities  with our members on our platform) and it’s a very good place to start. The internet is one reason there are more speaking opportunities than ever. It’s easier than ever to “put on a show” and sell (or give away) tickets on tools like Eventbrite. It’s easier to market an event using social media. And, with marketers busy collecting leads online, there comes a time in many sales processes when you just have to get face-to-face with a prospect. (Pandemic note: virtual and online events need speakers too!)

We call it “The Speaker’s Paradise”. There have been more than 50,000 TEDx individual talks and counting; there 3 million events selling tickets on Eventbrite annually; and there are more than half a million monthly Meetups. Never mind that there are more than 92,000 identified professional organizations, many of whom run events. One of these will surely tick a box for you. 

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