Our guest this week started in the speaking industry in 2012 and began as an agent handling the speaking for a range of motivational speakers from the world of sport, adventure, and military. In 2014, he relocated to Hong Kong to start the Chartwell Asia office. The majority of clients there were financial services firms sourcing experts to speak at their regional conferences. During his time in Asia, he got a lot of experience in “co-broking” with US-Based Agencies. In 2016 he returned to London and took over as Managing Director of Chartwell at that time. His role now mainly consists of handling “exclusive speakers” and managing the corporate speaking engagements for a range of high-profile economists, politicians, technology entrepreneurs & academics.

Questions:

• Tell us about Chartwell and what makes them USPs
• How did you get into the Speaking Industry? What’s your background? 
• What’s going on in the market?

• What type of speaker would work with you / Chartwell? 
• What advice would you give to a speaker looking to get booked by an agency like Chartwell?