Exclusive or Non Exclusive: Select Membership Level
Speakers Bureau of Canada welcomes you to a national community of leading voices and thought leaders shaping conversations across organizations, industries, and communities. With more than 30 years as a speakers bureau, over 150 years of combined event-industry experience, 29,000 coordinated events, and more than nine million audience members reached, our success has been built through trusted relationships, shared values, professional standards, and the impact our speakers create.
Our strength comes from speakers, clients, partners, and team members who value purpose, integrity, collaboration, accountability, and results. Every speaker relationship contributes to the reputation of our bureau, the experience of our clients, and the value delivered to audiences across Canada. We measure success by the people our speakers reach, the conversations they influence, and the lasting value created beyond each event. The destination may continue to evolve, but our direction remains clear: move forward together as a collective of trusted voices with a shared commitment to meaningful impact. Review the membership options below and select the path that best reflects your future and ours.
Why Join Speakers Canada?
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Main Reasons to Join
- Credibility: Professional qualification and recognition
- Bookings: Qualified leads, proposals, and negotiations
- Demand: Organizations actively hiring speakers
- Visibility: Website, search, campaigns, and proposals
- Reach: Audiences and clients across Canada
- Impact: Events that inspire action and drive change
- Confidence: Trusted professional representation
- Relevance: Brand, topics, and fees aligned with demand
- Service: Expert, detailed, and timely communication
- Intelligence: Current buyer, event, and industry insights
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Booking Value
- Pipeline: More leads, shortlists, and bookings
- Markets: Access to industries, organizations
- Alignment: Expert positioning for event fit
- Contracts: Fees, terms, travel, usage rights
- Clarity: Clear communications easy decisions
- Logistics: Scheduling, travel, coordination
- Delivery: Preparation, support, success
- Payments: Invoicing, collection, remittance
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Career Value
- Status: Certified, credibility, market-ready
- Strategy: Clear goals that advance career
- Appeal: Positioning shaped for booking trends
- Development: Experience, fees, direction, impact
- Network: Trusted organizers, resources/peers
- Trends: Access market shifts in real time
- Agency: Services that support direction/decisions
- Progress: Performance, reviews, goals
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What You Can Expect
- Membership: Exclusive or non-exclusive representation
- Onboarding: Guidance, standards, process to standards
- Partnership: Administration, coordination, advisory
- Agents: Dedicated team member assigned for support
- Communication: Clear, timely, reliable, professional
- Exposure: Organizations, clients, audiences, speakers
- Qualified: Speakers, agents, resources, leads, bookings
- Protection: Brand, alignment, direction, commitments
- Professionalism: Affiliation, reputation, status, credibility
- Improvement: Profile, positioning, exposure, bookings
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 membership 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, expertise and influence 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 lead, search, update, meeting, and campaign prioritizes exclusive speakers first. You remain at the top of the list, with no competition between your efforts and ours for the same opportunities, while being advanced to others.
Flexibility & Frequency
Every inbound, repeat, and high-value opportunity prioritizes exclusive speakers first. We strategically position your topics, fees and value to align your speaking, profile and ability with market demand and current trends.
Search & Website Visibility
Your profile is prioritized across the homepage, search algorithm, trending topics, and applicable category pages. You are marketed and advanced wherever clients are actively searching, comparing, and making decisions.
Your Fee Works For You
With us managing your speaking, your fee is protected, and we can remain flexible to advance you across a broader range of opportunities. No matter your goals, we strategically align to support your direction without losing market control.
Commission on your own leads
We Invest in Your Career
We guide and manage your career, increasing your fees, visibility, exposure and bookings. We get to know you personally and professionally, so build, maintain and adapt to refine your content and positioning to meet demand.
Event & Booking Pipeline
Your profile is marketed across Canada, the United States, and international partner agencies. Our exclusive speakers are at the foundation of our relationships with repeat clients, agency partners, campaigns, and bureau-led initiatives.
Performance for Improvement
Performance insights, client feedback, booking patterns, and profile activity are reviewed after each engagement. Annual planning and ongoing strategy refine your positioning, topics, fees, content, and market direction to support your career.
More Exposure. Less Work. More Growth.
With SBC managing lead flow, positioning, and booking development, you can focus on speaking. Your topics align with client demand, your profile is consistently advanced, and your visibility, fees, bookings, and career continue to grow.
Select Your Membership
Non-Exclusive
For speakers on multiple bureaus
25% Bureau Commissions For Bureau Bookings
Brand, Profile & Positioning
- Standard Fee Guidance
- Annual Planning Session
- Standard Positioning Guidance
- Speaker-Led Career Planning
- Annual Profile Review
- Standard Profile Updates
- Website Content Guides
- Keyword Alignment
- Partial Resource Access
Portal, Marketing & Campaigns
- Standard Website Placement
- Standard Search Placement
- Multiple Agency Representation
- Multi-Speaker Campaign Inclusion
- Social Media Collaboration
- SBC Initiative Consideration
- Partial Event Portal Access
- Partial Profile Portal Access
- Standard Proposal Inclusion
- Video Proposal Inclusion
- Limited Client Portal Visibility
- Standard Client Messaging
- System Notifications
- Standard Technical Support
Booking & Event Support
- Assigned Bureau Agent
- Bureau-Sourced Lead Management
- Speaker-Manages Direct Leads
- Standard Qualified Leads
- Standard Corporate Consideration
- Standard Conference Consideration
- Repeat Booking Follow-Up
- International Referral Potential
- Standard Negotiation Support
- Basic Multi-Date Coordination
- Standard Event Management
- Agreement Management
- Travel Coordination
- Standard Payment Processing
Growth, Visibility & Data
- Standard Booking Guidance
- Referral Consideration
- Basic Lead Source Data
- Basic Industry Insights
- Limited Market Comparisons
- Limited Campaign Data
- Basic Search Data
- Limited Video Data
- Basic Conversion Review
- Basic Market Insights
- Annual Booking Review
Exclusive Representation
Full representation, access to all services and career growth
20% Commissions
Bureau Sourced Booking
15% Commissions
Speaker Sourced Booking
Profile, Brand & Positioning
- Fee Advancement Strategy
- Full Career Guidance
- Annual Career Strategy
- Full Positioning Guidance
- Market Expansion Strategy
- Industry Expansion Strategy
- Audience Expansion Strategy
- Revenue Diversification Strategy
- Full Profile Management
- Full Content Development
- Topic and Trend Strategy
- Full Video Support
- Asset Investment (Potential)
- Full Network Access
- Onboarding Support
Campaigns & Visibility
- Featured Website Placement
- Priority Search Placement
- Featured Campaigns
- Showcase and Initiative Priority
- Brand Partnership Support
- Media Pitching Support
- Online Advertising Campaigns
- Thought Leadership Campaigns
- Social Media Promotion
- Podcast Promotion Support
- Newsletter Promotion Support
- Trending Topics Placement
- Seasonal and Awareness Campaigns
- Collaborative Content Campaigns
- Multi-Speaker Campaigns
Booking Priority & Support
- Assigned Exclusive Agent
- Priority Qualified Leads
- Priority Event Access
- Priority Conference Access
- Priority Repeat Bookings
- International Partners & Bookings
- Centralized Lead Management
- Expert Negotiation Support
- Multi-Date Booking Strategy
- Piggyback Booking Strategy
- Full Event Management
- Calendar & Itinerary Syncing
- Tailored Agreement Management
- Priority Travel Coordination
- Priority Payment Processing
- Booking Growth Management
Growth, Influence & Launches
- Audience Growth Strategy
- Influence Development
- Thought Leadership Growth
- Media Exposure Strategy
- Podcast Appearance Strategy
- Speaking Campaign Launches
- Book Launch Support
- Product Launch Support
- Program Launch Support
- Bureau Expansion Priority
- Brand Partnership Development
- Influencer Campaign Support
- Public Relations Support
- Collaborative Campaigns
- Market Expansion Campaigns
- Bureau Partnerships & Network
Technology & Analytics
- Full Event Portal Access
- Full Profile Portal Access
- Interactive Client Proposals
- Client Portal Engagement
- Video Proposal Integration
- Personalized Client Messages
- Full Performance Analytics
- Performance Reporting Dashboards
- Lead Capture Tools
- Automated Client Follow-Up
- Audience Feedback Tools
- System Automation Support
- Developer Integration Support
- CRM Integration (Potential)
- Mobile Portal Access (Potential)
- Integrated Booking Technology
Bookings, Data & Optimization
- Booking Growth Strategy
- Lead Generation Campaigns
- Client Reactivation Strategy
- Repeat Booking Strategy
- Industry Trends Data
- Competitive Speaker Data
- Referral Growth Strategy
- Conversion Optimization
- Campaign Data Statistics
- Lead Source Analytics
- Profile Performance Analytics
- Search Performance Analytics
- Video Engagement Analytics
- Audience Behaviour Analytics
- Booking Conversion Analytics
- Market Demand Insights
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.
