About Us
Mission
When the right presenter is connected with the right audience, a kind of magic happens where organizations and individuals improve in substantial, long-term ways. eSpeakers powers that magic.
Values
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Integrity:
Build trust through reliable systems and delivering on our promises.
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Innovation:
Continuously evolving to provide cutting-edge solutions.
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Deep connections with:
Fostering strong relationships
with customers, industry
partners, and our team.
Vision
- eSpeakers is the global hub where the speaking industry thrives.
- We equip experts with cutting-edge tools that redefine how they connect, grow, and succeed.
- We ensure that the right voices inspire the right audiences, by fostering meaningful connections between speakers and event organizers.
- We're trusted by event professionals worldwide – eSpeakers is the go-to platform for finding and booking top-tier talent.
Our Story
Art Berg, CSP, CPAE
Art Berg, our founder, had an idea, and like most of his ideas, it was big. He was a professional speaker who’d been working successfully for many years when he noticed that all a great speaker needed to thrive was the chance to do what he loved. He felt that if speakers, trainers, and coaches all over the world could build and manage their business on simple, powerful technology, they’d have the time and energy they needed to grow their speaking careers to new heights.
As the Internet became the way we all do business, eSpeakers provided for another need in the industry: a way for event organizers to easily find the perfect speaker, among thousands, for each audience they are responsible for. The eSpeakers Marketplace technology lets us and our partner directories help meeting professionals all over the world connect directly with speakers for great engagements.
Several years later, thousands of successful speakers, trainers, and coaches use eSpeakers to build their businesses and manage their calendars. Thousands of event organizers use our directories every day to find and hire speakers. We like to think Art would be pleased. We’ve built our technology on years of research and development alongside leading speakers, trainers, coaches, event organizers, speaker bureaus, and speaker management companies. Our tools are built for speakers, by speakers, to do things that only purpose-built systems can.
1999
Founders Art Berg, CSP, CPAE, and Dave Reed release EventPro, the first version of our event management platform.
2002
The industry is in shock with the news of the sudden passing of Art. Joe Heaps joins Dave Reed to continue Art’s vision of using technology to help speakers grow their speaking careers to new heights.
2014
eSpeakers Marketplace launches, making it easy for event organizers to find, connect and hire speakers online.
2020
eSpeakers releases the Certified Virtual Presenter certification to help speakers and event organizers connect under the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event Organizers
Let eSpeakers Marketplace take the risk out of choosing your next speaker. Watch speaker preview videos and read reviews from verified past clients to make sure you’re getting the perfect presenter.
Use the eSpeakers Marketplace to connect directly with a single speaker, or group-contact filter through candidates quickly.
Associations, Speaker Bureaus and Organizations
If you’re an organization that reaches a group of speakers or a group of people who use speakers — why not help them connect?
The amazing technology that makes eSpeakers Marketplace directory work so well is available to you. Put your brand on it and help event organizers and speakers in your sphere find each other and delight audiences.
Speakers, Trainers and Coaches
Successful speakers use eSpeakers to help the right audiences find them. eSpeakers’ deep connections throughout the meetings industry make it the perfect place to help buyers and sellers connect with each other.
Want to delight your customers? Performing at least 25 engagements per year? Run your business with the industry’s only business calendaring system designed by busy professional speakers.
Our Team
Dave Reed
Co-founder, Partner &
Chief Technology Officer
Joe Heaps
Managing Partner &
Chief Marketing Officer
Amber Shelby
Speaker Success Manager
Roxy Snyder
Marketplace Sales Manager
Mark Hobson
Lead Developer
Ethan McNeal
Software Development
Rachel Denhalter
Customer Service &
Product Testing
Lucie Bertuleit
Customer Service
David Pace
Marketplace Sales
Kay Norman
Finance Manager
Elaine Elliott
Social Media Specialist
Richard Hickman
HighLevel Platform Expert
The top organizations
in the speaking industry rely on eSpeakers
