Speaking Opportunities

The Future Of Getting Booked Is Already Taking Shape

Built to Be Found.
Ready to Be Chosen.

Today, an event planner can ask an AI search tool, “Find five speakers who help healthcare leaders prevent burnout,” and receive a starting list of names and sources in moments.

Since 2002, Charli Jane has helped speakers build the clear, credible foundation needed to be found, from the early days of Yahoo and Google to today’s AI search tools. We pair that foundation with the opportunities, intelligence, and booking system to help you pursue the right stages.

From Discovered To Chosen

Be Discovered A clear, specific digital presence. You are here
Be Understood Audience, topic, and outcomes. You are here
Be Considered Credibility, proof, and fit. You are here
Be Chosen Ready for the right stage. You are here

Discovery is the first doorway. Being chosen is the destination.

Getting booked now happens in two directions…

Which side needs your attention first?

Build the speaker presence that helps the right opportunities find you, or actively put the right opportunities into motion.

Two Paths · One Club · Built For The Future Of Getting Booked

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The Charli Jane Speaker Directory

A second digital doorway to being discovered.

For example, a planner may ask:

“Find a speaker who helps first-time managers lead multigenerational teams.”

To become a possible match, a speaker’s digital presence needs to clearly communicate who they serve, what they speak about, and the outcomes they help create.

That is why each Charli Jane directory profile is structured around the specific information planners look for and search tools need to understand. Your own website remains essential; your directory profile gives your expertise another clear, credible place to be understood, evaluated, and shared.

From Request To Clearer Fit

Planner Search

Find a speaker who helps first-time managers lead multigenerational teams.

What A Clear Speaker Profile Communicates

Who They Serve
Topics + Expertise
Talks + Outcomes
Credibility + Proof
Location + Format
Video + Digital Assets

Clearer To Understand Easier To Evaluate

Built for human decisions.

Structured for the way search is changing.

Ready To Create Your Second Doorway?

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Create a clear, credible, strategically structured speaker profile designed to help planners, search engines, and AI tools understand who you serve, what you speak about, and where you fit.

FREE for all Charli Jane Speakers Club members

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Path 2 · Put Opportunities In Motion

Speaker Opportunity Intelligence

Some opportunities find you. Others need you to move first.

Use real opportunities to see what the market is asking for.

You’re ready. Put the right opportunities into motion.

For example, one planner may ask an AI tool for a shortlist while another publishes a call for speakers. Forward-thinking speakers prepare for both—with a discoverable foundation and a smart way to act on current opportunities.

You may not be ready to pitch every room yet—and that’s okay. Current opportunities show you the audiences, topics, outcomes, and proof planners are asking for, so you can build with greater clarity.

Use current Opportunity Intelligence to identify fit, choose your strongest angle, pitch with purpose, follow up, and keep your booking pipeline moving.

Representative examples of the opportunities we surface

Association

National Women’s Leadership Summit

Chicago, IL · Annual Conference

Education

University Leadership Forum

Ames, IA · Student Leadership Event

Technology

Technology Leadership Conference

Toronto, Canada · In-Person Conference

Corporate

Healthcare Employee Wellness Event

Minneapolis, MN · Corporate Program

Since 2002, we’ve kept our eyes on where speakers are needed. Today, our team curates 175+ speaking opportunities each week through ongoing research, referrals, industry connections, and direct planner submissions.

Ready to see what’s open now?

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A hand-curated look at real opportunities speakers can explore now.

Useful as market intelligence while you build. See what these rooms ask for before you pitch them.

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Member Results

The proof is in the bookings.

Being discovered opens the door. Clear positioning, the right opportunities, and consistent follow-through help speakers turn consideration into bookings.

Almost $15K booked

I've booked almost $15K of gigs from Charli Jane leads since I joined this summer.

Traci Brown

Body Language Expert, Keynote Speaker

My speaking fee for one gig alone will justify my Charli Jane membership for many years.

David Avrin

The Visibility Coach

The best investment I've made in my speaking career. It's helped me reach new heights.

Ravi Hutheesing

Cultural Catalyst & Global Keynote Speaker

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Wendi McNeill, founder of Charli Jane Speakers

Meet Wendi

I’ve been helping speakers get booked since 2002.

When I founded Charli Jane Speakers in 2002, speakers were learning to build online platforms so Yahoo, Google, and event planners could find them. Today, that same foundation must be clear enough for planners, search engines, and AI tools to understand, and the shift is happening at hyper speed.

The technology has changed, but my core belief hasn’t: you do not need to be famous or highly experienced to begin getting booked. You need to be clear, discoverable, credible, and ready to be chosen, then pair that foundation with the right opportunities and a practical system for taking action.

I’m a Nebraska girl, wife, mama to four daughters, and Nana to a wonderfully loud crew. I believe in practical strategy, doable next moves, and honest guidance. The tools may move fast, but you do not have to chase every shiny thing. You need to know what matters and keep moving toward the right rooms.

Since 2002 Speaker Discoverability + Booking Strategy Founder, Charli Jane Speakers

Meet Wendi + The Charli Jane Story

One Club · Two Paths

Your Recommended Starting Point

Your next stage starts here.

Start by becoming easier to discover.

Put the right opportunities into motion.

Whether you need to build the foundation that helps you get found or put the right opportunities into motion, both paths are waiting for you inside the Charli Jane Speakers Club.

Inside the Club, the STAGE path helps you clarify your audience, talk, outcomes, assets, proof, and digital signals so planners and AI search tools can understand where you fit.

Inside the Club, the Get Booked path gives you current Opportunity Intelligence, curated opportunities, pitching and follow-up tools, and the Booking Command Center to keep your pipeline moving.

Explore The Speakers Club

Explore STAGE Inside The Club

The Booking Command Center is included too, ready when your foundation is.

Explore The Get Booked Path

The STAGE path is included too, whenever your foundation needs sharpening.

Built To Be Found · Ready To Be Chosen · One Club

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Your Speaking Stage

The Emerging Speaker

You have something powerful to say — and the world needs to hear it. Right now you're figuring out how to get in front of the right rooms, and that's exactly where this journey begins. The foundation you build in this stage will determine everything that comes after it. Let's make it solid.

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Your #1 Priority Right Now

Before you pitch a single event, you need one thing: a clear, bookable topic. Not a broad category — a specific, ownable message that tells an organizer instantly why YOU are the right speaker for their room.

Here's the formula I've used with speakers for 24 years:

The Signature Topic Formula

WHO you help + WHAT transformation you create + WHY only you can deliver it this way

Write your WHO: Get specific. Not "women" — "women in mid-level corporate who feel overlooked for leadership roles."

Write your WHAT: The exact transformation. "Walk away knowing how to advocate for themselves without burning bridges."

Write your WHY YOU: Your story, your method, your lived experience. This is what nobody else can copy.

Put it together into one sentence. Read it out loud. If it sounds like YOU — you've found your topic.

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What's Holding You Back

You're waiting to feel ready. I've watched this stop more talented speakers than anything else. Here's what I know after 24 years: readiness doesn't come before action — it comes because of it.

The speakers getting booked right now aren't more talented than you. They just stopped waiting and started pitching. Every stage you say yes to — even the imperfect ones — builds the confidence that leads to the stages you really want.

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This Week's Doable Momentum

You don't need a big plan. You need one small move.

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Write your signature topic sentence using the formula above

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Find ONE local or virtual event in your niche this week

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Send ONE email introducing yourself as a speaker — just one

Here's Your Next Step

You have the message. Now let's find you the right rooms to say it in.

The challenge below will walk you through finding better-fit opportunities, crafting your first real pitch, and taking action without second-guessing. It's 3 days, $10, and it will change how you see your speaking business.

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🌟 When You're Ready

The Charli Jane
Speakers Club

175 curated leads every Monday plus AI tools that find your best opportunities and write your proposals, follow-ups and postcards — all inside your member area.

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Your Speaking Stage

The Growing Speaker

You've stepped on stages. You know this is real. But there's a gap between where you are and where you know you could be — and it's not about talent. You have that. It's about having a system that works consistently, and the right opportunities flowing in every single week.

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Your #1 Priority Right Now

Your results feel inconsistent because your outreach is inconsistent. The fix isn't working harder — it's building a simple weekly rhythm you can actually stick to.

Here's the 5-day pitching rhythm I teach inside the Club. You can start this Monday:

Monday — Find: Identify 3–5 new speaking opportunities. Check your leads list, search associations in your niche, look at upcoming conferences.

Tuesday — Research: Find the organizer's name, email, and social media for each opportunity. Know their event before you pitch it.

Wednesday — Pitch: Send your proposal. Keep it specific to THAT event, THAT audience. Organizers can spot a template in 3 seconds.

Thursday — Follow Up: Follow up on pitches from 5–7 days ago. One warm, personalized email doubles your response rate.

Friday — Get Seen: Comment genuinely on one organizer's social post. Not a pitch — just real engagement. You'll be remembered.

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What's Holding You Back

Your pitch isn't landing the way your talk does. You're great on stage — but the email that gets you ON that stage still needs work. Most growing speakers pitch too broadly.

Organizers receive dozens of generic pitches every week. The ones that get responses are specific, warm, and make the organizer feel like you already understand their audience. That's a skill — and it's learnable. Once you crack it, everything changes.

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This Week's Doable Momentum

Start the rhythm above — but begin small:

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Pick just 2 opportunities this week — not 10

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Rewrite your pitch opening line to mention their specific event in the first sentence

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Follow up on any pitch you sent more than 7 days ago with a warm one-paragraph email

Here's Your Next Step

You're closer than you think. You just need a pitch that sounds like you — and a consistent source of the right opportunities.

The challenge below is built exactly for where you are. It will help you write pitches that actually get responses — and show you how to find better-fit rooms every single week.

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Speakers Club

175 curated leads every Monday plus AI that writes your proposals, follow-up emails, postcard copy and social comments — customized to every single lead.

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Your Speaking Stage

The Established Speaker

You know what you're doing. You've been on stages, you've pitched organizers, you have a talk that works. But your pipeline isn't as full as your talent deserves — and the time you spend searching, researching, and writing outreach is time you could spend speaking. Let's fix that.

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Your #1 Priority Right Now

You don't need more tactics — you need a pipeline audit. Right now, somewhere in your world there are opportunities you've researched but not pitched, pitches you've sent but not followed up on, and organizers who've seen you but haven't heard from you again.

Do this audit today — it takes 20 minutes and almost always surfaces a booking:

List every pitch you've sent in the last 90 days. For each one ask: did I follow up? Did I engage on their social? Did I send a postcard? If not — that's your first move this week.

Identify your 3 warmest leads — the organizers most likely to book you. Focus your energy there first before adding new leads.

Am I pitching consistently every week? One pitch a week, every week, is more powerful than 10 pitches one month and nothing the next.

Add the postcard. Almost no speaker does this. A physical postcard is the single highest-ROI follow-up move I've seen in 24 years. Do it.

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What's Holding You Back

Time. You're spending hours every week on tasks that should take minutes — finding leads, researching organizers, writing proposals, crafting follow-ups. That's not a talent problem. That's a systems problem.

Established speakers who scale their bookings aren't working harder. They have a repeatable system that handles the research and writing — so they can focus on showing up and speaking.

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This Week's Doable Momentum

Do the pipeline audit above. Then:

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Send one follow-up to your warmest lead from the last 30 days

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Write and mail one postcard to an organizer you've already pitched — handwritten P.S. required

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Commit to one new pitch per week for the next 8 weeks — consistency is the only thing between you and a full calendar

Here's Your Next Step

You're ready for a system that does the heavy lifting — so you can focus on what you do best.

175 curated leads every Monday. AI that finds your best opportunities and writes your proposals, follow-ups, postcard copy and social comments for every single lead. No extra tools. No ChatGPT. Built right inside your member area.

🌟 Built for You

The Charli Jane
Speakers Club

175 curated leads every Monday. AI that finds your best opportunities in 30 seconds and writes every proposal, follow-up, postcard and social comment. No ChatGPT. Just results.

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Built to Be Found.Ready to Be Chosen.

Which side needs your attention first?

A second digital doorway to being discovered.

Get Your Charli Jane Speaker Profile Today

Some opportunities find you. Others need you to move first.

Use real opportunities to see what the market is asking for.

You’re ready. Put the right opportunities into motion.

National Women’s Leadership Summit

University Leadership Forum

Technology Leadership Conference

Healthcare Employee Wellness Event

Get 20 current speaking opportunities — free.

The proof is in the bookings.

I’ve been helping speakers get booked since 2002.

Your next stage starts here.

Start by becoming easier to discover.

Put the right opportunities into motion.

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Ready to Be Chosen.

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