Why Work With Amplify Speakers

We tell you who is right, not who is available

A directory shows you who has an open date. We start with your audience, your theme, and the outcome you want, then match against that brief rather than a keyword.

We know things about our speakers their websites do not show: how they perform with different audience types, which industries they genuinely resonate with, how they handle pre-event prep, and whether they make your job easier or harder. That knowledge is the whole product.

Our roster is curated, not aggregated

We represent people we know well enough to match confidently. That is why the roster grows steadily rather than in bulk, and why we can vouch for the people on it rather than forwarding you a database result.

The credentials bear that out. Seven of our speakers hold the Certified Speaking Professional designation, which fewer than one percent of professional speakers worldwide have earned, and one of them is among only three people on earth holding the CSP alongside the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame and the Global Speaking Fellow. More than seventy are published authors, including titles from Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Wiley and Pearson, and three New York Times bestsellers.

The other measure is what happens in the room. At an association conference of 783 attendees, Amy Purdy scored 4.93 out of 5 against a 4.44 event average, with 99 percent saying they would recommend the session. At a national conference surveying more than 6,000 attendees, Amanda Lindhout was ranked the top speaker out of more than 40. We ask for those numbers, and we will share them with you before you book.

It also means we will tell you when nobody on our roster is the right answer. See the authors we represent.

We work inside your budget rather than around it

Our roster spans emerging voices through nationally recognized names, so the conversation starts with the number you actually have rather than a single price point.

If the person you have in mind is out of range we say so plainly instead of letting you spend three weeks finding out, and then we show you who is genuinely strong at your level. The fees guide covers what the market looks like at each tier.

We source beyond our own roster

If you have a name in mind who is not on our list, we contact them directly. If they are exclusively represented elsewhere, we work with that bureau rather than steering you toward a substitute.

A bureau that only ever recommends its own talent is optimizing for its roster rather than your event. More on how that works.

We handle the whole process

Availability checks, fee transparency, contracting, deposits, travel coordination, riders, pre-event prep calls, and follow-up. One point of contact owning the speaker relationship from first enquiry through event day.

For a large event where the speaker is one of dozens of moving pieces, that is the difference between a manageable week and a bad one. The full process is here.

It costs you nothing

Bureau compensation comes from the speaker side of the engagement, so the fee you are quoted is the fee you would pay booking direct. There is no markup for using us and no separate planner fee.