SPEAKERS BUREAU OF CANADA RELATIONSHIPS
Two Paths. One Decision. Your Career.
We have built something worth protecting and growing. It’s time for you to build with us.
Below is everything you need to know about our relationship options and which one to select
Speakers Bureau of Canada is a national speakers bureau built as a family-run business, and that foundation continues to shape how we hire, operate, and make decisions. As we have expanded across Canada, we have maintained a tightly aligned team that operates with shared standards, clear accountability, and consistent communication across every engagement.
We operate through a structured model that combines defined systems with direct oversight at every stage of the booking process. From initial inquiry through to contracting, logistics, and payment, each step is managed to maintain clarity, protect all parties, and ensure consistent execution across each engagement.
We manage how speakers are positioned, advanced, and represented across the market. Each engagement is executed to a consistent standard that reinforces credibility, supports long-term career development, and ensures the message delivered creates meaningful impact for the audiences we serve.
Speakers are the core of our business and the representation of our purpose. They define our brand, and their message defines the change we create. Our relationships with speakers are directly connected to our relationships and reputation with organizers. Through this alignment, we expand our reach, build careers on proven performance, and create and advance the opportunities that move them forward.
Your career moves forward with consistency, clarity, and aligned opportunities. You focus on delivery while each engagement is structured, advanced, and executed to maintain your credibility and support long-term growth. Your time is protected through aligned opportunities and focused effort, with each step building forward in the right direction, with the right team behind you.
What Exclusive Actually Means
Exclusivity is not a label or a limitation. It defines how SBC allocates time, resources, and relationships on your behalf across every opportunity. Speakers who build sustainable careers do not manage it alone. We position your work with the audiences that matter, advance it through qualified opportunities, create traction through consistent activity, and maintain a clear, controlled path for growth.
Commission on SBC bookings
You’re First. Always.
Every inbound lead, search, and campaign prioritizes exclusive speakers first. You are advanced ahead of other options and are not internally competed against for your own opportunities.
Advancement Priority
Exclusive speakers are prioritized across all qualified opportunities. Advancement is based on fit, positioning, and alignment, ensuring consistent exposure to higher-value engagements.
Search & Marketing Visibility
Your profile is prioritized across website search, category placement, and campaign visibility. You are surfaced where clients are actively searching and making decisions.
Your Fee Works For You
Your fee is managed within the relationship to support positioning, flexibility, and advancement across a broader range of opportunities. This allows for strategic alignment across both higher and lower range engagements without losing market control.
Commission on your own leads
We Invest in Your Career
Fee strategy, profile development, website presence, SEO, content, and visibility are actively managed. Your positioning is built and maintained through ongoing refinement, not passive listing.
Event & Booking Pipeline
Your profile is marketed across Canada, the United States, and international partner agencies. Co-brokered opportunities, multi-speaker campaigns, and bureau-led initiatives begin with exclusive speakers.
You Get Better Over Time
Performance insights and client feedback are tracked after each engagement. Annual planning and ongoing strategy ensure your positioning, fees, and booking volume continue to evolve.
More Opportunities. More Fit. More Growth.
With lead flow, positioning, and pipeline managed through SBC, you are advanced across a wider range of qualified opportunities. Topics are aligned to active client demand, ensuring consistent fit, visibility, and long-term growth.
Select Your Relationship
Non-Exclusive
For speakers on multiple bureaus
25% Bureau Commissions
- Join multiple bureaus and agencies
- Standard consideration and advancement for qualified leads
- Manage your own leads directly
- Standard placement on website and search
- Contract, logistics & payment management
- Partial portal access for profile management
- Outbound multi-speaker campaigns
- Annual planning & strategy sessions
- Standard profile updates
- Network access to partners for content and career development
Exclusive Representation
For speakers seeking full representation, access to all services and career growth
20% Commissions
Bureau Sourced Booking
15% Commissions
Speaker Sourced Booking
- First consideration on qualified leads and high value opportunities
- Priority and featured placement on website, search and trending categories
- Centralized lead management qualification and booking control through bureau
- Event portal access for interactive proposals, video integration and client presentation
- Tailored contracts, logistics priority payment and payment management
- Streamlined travel coordination and bookings with integrated calendar
- Early access to platform features and pilot programs
- Direct client visibility and booking engagement through event portal
- Awareness days and seasonal campaigns aligned to market demand
- Multi speaker campaigns to expand reach across topics and audiences
- Piggyback and repeat booking strategy across clients and events
- Multi date booking coordination to increase volume and efficiency
- Event audience and booking benchmarks
- First option for bureau hosted events, showcases and initiatives
- Full portal access for profile management
- Annual planning and strategy to increase fees and bookings
- Content development building and media direction
- Search performance tracking and visibility
- Ongoing updates with tailored content for speaker fit
- Data analytics for leads profile behaviour and advancement
- Performance insights and client feedback
- Video content investment when permitted
- Access to agents and leadership at all times
- Network access to partners for content and career development
- Developer access for website profile integrations and support
- Syncing and automation across systems
Ready to Get Started?
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Please select your representation option and email us to begin the onboarding process. Once we receive your email, we will send all relevant documents and outline the next steps to get started. If you have any questions or would like to review the process, please contact us and we will schedule a meeting.