Working document
The speaker one sheet checklist
Twenty items that turn a page about you into a page a program committee can act on in one sitting.
Free resources
Resources for speakers and workshop facilitators
Free tools and comparisons for the business side of speaking: what a date really pays, how many inquiries fill a season, and which software fits how you book.
Everything here is built for a working speaker rather than an aspiring one. That means the arithmetic of a traveling keynote, the structure of a defensible fee band, the pipeline math behind a full fall, and a straight read on which tools suit which kind of speaking practice. Nothing needs an account and nothing is a sales page in disguise.
If you are new to the business side, start with the one sheet checklist, because a page that answers a program chair in one sitting changes the quality of everything downstream. If you are already booked and want to know whether the work is paying, start with the net fee calculator and run it against your last three engagements.
Free tools
Calculators for the speaking business
Two small tools for the arithmetic every professional speaker does badly in her head: what a date actually pays, and how much inbound it takes to fill a calendar.
Comparisons
How SpeakerOneSheet compares to the tools speakers already own
Most working speakers already pay for something that touches this job, so the useful question is which part of the booking conversation each tool was actually built to carry.
Main guide
How are event planners in my niche choosing speakers this season, and what changed?
It settles how a conference committee actually moves from a long list of names to one signed speaker contract, and what you have to hand them at each step.
Magazine
The Booking Room
Reporting on the working economics, contracts and craft of the professional speaking and workshop business in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes these guides, the keynote and workshop work behind them, and why the fee band, travel and committee arithmetic gets covered here the way it is.
All of this stays free
The one sheet checklist, both calculators and the tool comparisons cost nothing and stay yours whether or not you ever run a booking page here. If you want to see your own topics, bands and open weeks laid out the way an event planner reads them, ask for a screen share and we will build that page with you. It takes an afternoon of your time at the outside, and usually much less.