Amplify Speakers
All Speaking Topics
Every topic we represent, in one place. Use this if you know roughly what you want the room to walk out with but not who should deliver it.
A word of advice before you start clicking. The topic is usually the easiest part of the brief and the least important. Two speakers can both present on resilience and land completely differently depending on whether your audience is exhausted, sceptical, newly restructured or coming off a strong year. The topic gets you a shortlist. The room decides which name on it is right.
If you would rather start from the person than the subject, browse speakers by background instead, which sorts by what they did before they ever stood on a stage.
Browse Topics
Leadership & Management
For leadership summits, manager development programmes and organisations promoting technical experts into leadership.
Motivation & Performance
The largest category and the easiest to get wrong. Match the speaker to the mood of the room, not just the theme on the agenda.
Stage Craft & Entertainment
For the parts of your programme that are not a keynote. Hosting, comedy and the evening slots that decide how your event is remembered.
Culture, People & Wellbeing
For HR conferences, all-employee events and any organisation dealing with retention, burnout or the aftermath of change.
Sales, Growth & Customer
For kickoffs, revenue teams and anyone whose results are visible to everyone else in the building.
Technology & What Comes Next
For audiences that need the practical version rather than the hype cycle.
Industry-Specific
Speakers who know the room before they walk into it, because they have worked in it.
By Occasion
Sometimes the clearest way to brief a bureau is to name the event rather than the theme.
Format
How it gets delivered matters as much as what gets said, particularly across shifts, campuses and time zones.
Choosing a Topic That Actually Fits
The most common mistake is picking the topic the leadership team wants to hear rather than the one the audience needs. A company that has just been through redundancies will book resilience, and half the room will hear it as an instruction to absorb more. The same audience often responds far better to a speaker on trust, or on how leaders communicate through uncertainty, because that puts the responsibility in the right place.
The second most common mistake is booking the same topic every year. Audiences notice. If your last three keynotes were all broadly about mindset, the fourth one starts from a deficit no matter how good the speaker is.
A quick way to get it right
Finish this sentence before you look at any speaker: after this session, I want people to do X differently. If you cannot finish it, the problem is not that you have not found the right speaker yet. Tell us the sentence and we will tell you which topics get you there, including the ones you had not considered.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many topics do you represent?
We publish a topic page only where we genuinely have speakers who own that subject. That means fewer pages than the largest directories carry, and every one of them has real people behind it rather than a search result with nobody attached.
Can one speaker cover more than one topic?
Almost all of them do, and most will tailor the emphasis to your brief. That is what the preparation call is for. A speaker who will not adapt their standard talk is usually the wrong booking.
What if my theme does not match any of these?
Tell us the theme in your own words. Conference themes rarely map cleanly onto speaker categories, and translating between the two is most of what we do.
Should I pick the topic or the speaker first?
Whichever is clearer. Plenty of good bookings start with a name someone saw at another event. Just be willing to hear that the name might not fit your room.
Do topics affect the fee?
Not much. Fees track speaking track record and demand far more than subject matter. See our fee guide.
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Still narrowing it down?
Tell us what you want people doing differently afterwards. We will come back with topics and names, usually within one business day.