A majority of my work as a consultant involves getting in front of potential audiences via speaking. My speaking engagements, which range from forty-five minutes to all day, vary according to the objectives of those purchasing my services. In other words, I have no canned speeches that I pull out, and I never give the same speech or presentation twice. However, this is not usually the case. In fact, most speakers today take the same speech content and deliver it repeatedly to different audiences. It is because of that propensity for regurgitation of past material that I believe most companies can benefit from the following guidelines to use when searching for your next speaker.

Print out these questions, and answer them prior to hiring any speaker. Not only will it help you hire the RIGHT speaker for your company needs, but it will make you look like a million bucks in your boss