How to Book a Motivational Speaker for your Event
At Gulf Coast Entertainment, we love helping our corporate, nonprofit, and private clients find the right motivational speaker for their events. Unlike a speakers bureau, Gulf Coast Entertainment represents the buyer of entertainment rather than the speaker, so our interests align with yours-finding you the right speaker for you and your audience.
Gulf Coast Entertainment has been providing white glove entertainment booking services for 45 years. We provide tailored recommendations- quick, curated proposals with top talent to help meet our client’s needs.
Why Book Motivational Speakers Through Gulf Coast Entertainment?
Finding the right keynote speaker for your event depends on your event goals. As we
start the process of exploring motivational speakers with you and your event
coordinator, you might consider questions like:
- Is your goal to increase audience engagement?
- Are you wanting a motivational speech to drive innovation at your company?
- Are you looking for an opportunity to improve expertise in an area of your
organization? - Would a Ted Talk style forum work best for your event, or a fireside chat?
- What is your budget for the speakers fee?
- Who have you had in the past?
Whatever your goals, Gulf Coast Entertainment can help you and your meeting planners identify potential keynote speakers that work for your budget and event needs, and work with you to book the perfect keynote speaker for your leadership summit, annual conference, fundraiser, or private event.
What Kind of Speaker is Best for You?
Great speakers know how to tailor their speaking topics to their audience. Motivational speakers can take all forms- sports speakers, technology speakers, education speakers- a great speaker and a thought leader in a specific area of expertise will work with us to make sure their speech aligns with your session topics.
- For corporate events, we will work with you and/or your event organizer to come up with a potential speaker list of motivational corporate speakers whose expertise is in audience engagement and motivational speaking. A leadership speaker, sales speaker, or business speaker makes sense in this corporate context. Review the speaker profiles your agent sends you to see who might work best for your group. Depending on your event goals and audience, an inspirational speaker discussing their own expertise can be a great fit for a corporate group, especially if you are looking to increase audience engagement. Ask your agent if they can often offer a Ted Talk type format, a virtual speaker performance, or a fireside chat. Let your agent know what you are looking for and what budget you have set for the speaker fee so we can properly curate your proposal.
- The perfect speaker for a nonprofit event could come from any industry. They might be a wellness speaker, inspirational speaker, or just a general, great motivational speaker. A celebrity speaker will help draw name recognition to your event and increase demand for tickets.
For any speaking engagement, a professional keynote speaker will be skilled in public speaking and bring with them a high emotional intelligence. They are able to relate to your audience with tailored recommendations and motivational words to meet your event goals.
Once you have contracted a speaker and as you get closer to your event, your agent at Gulf Coast Entertainment may coordinate a pre-event call with your guest speaker, perhaps a representative from their speaker bureau, and your event coordinator to discuss the motivational topics the client is looking to hear about so the professional speaker can tailor their presentation.
Motivational speakers can make a huge difference in audience engagement, so if you are planning a corporate conference, you are in the right place!
