Speaking Opportunities

Charli Jane Speakers · Since 2002

Speaking leads don’t get you booked.

A bookable foundation, the right opportunities, and a repeatable booking pipeline do.

The Charli Jane Booking Journey

Become Bookable Message, talk, assets, proof. You are here
Right Opportunities Rooms that actually fit you. You are here
Booking Pipeline Pitch, follow up, track. You are here
Get Booked Booked stages on your calendar. You are here

Every booked speaker moves through the same four stages.

Your booking journey starts with one question…

Where are you right now?

Choose the path that sounds most like you. We’ll show you your next move.

Two Paths · One Booking System · Helping Speakers Get Booked Since 2002

Step 2 · Right Opportunities

Speaker Opportunity Intelligence

See the kinds of rooms looking for speakers.

See the rooms you’re getting ready for.

See the kinds of opportunities ready speakers can pursue.

Associations. Corporations. Conferences. Universities. These are the kinds of speaking opportunities that come across our radar through industry connections, referrals, planner submissions, and ongoing sourcing.

The opportunities are out there. As you strengthen your message, talk, assets, positioning, and proof, these are the kinds of rooms you’re preparing to pursue.

You’re ready to work the right opportunities. Here’s a look at the kinds of associations, corporations, conferences, and organizations that belong in a strong speaker pipeline.

Sample opportunities · representative examples of the rooms 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

Drawing on 24 years in the speaking industry, our team curates 175+ speaking opportunities each week through ongoing sourcing, referrals, industry connections, and direct planner submissions.

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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.

What happens when bookable speakers work the right opportunities and keep a real booking pipeline moving.

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.

I’m Wendi McNeill, founder of Charli Jane Speakers. For more than two decades, I’ve helped speakers clarify what they’re selling, find the right rooms, pitch with confidence, and build businesses around getting booked.

And after all these years, one thing hasn’t changed: leads alone don’t create bookings. Speakers need a message buyers understand, opportunities that actually fit, and a system for staying in motion.

I am a Nebraska girl, wife, mama to four daughters, and Nana to a wonderfully loud crew. Around here, I believe in practical strategy, doable next moves, and helping speakers stop spinning their wheels and start getting into the rooms where they belong.

Since 2002 Speaker Booking Strategy Founder, Charli Jane Speakers

Meet Wendi + The Charli Jane Story

Ready when you are

Your next move

Your next stage is waiting.

Become bookable.

Build your booking pipeline.

Whether you're building your foundation or ready to work the right opportunities, choose the path that fits where you are now.

Build the message, talk, assets, proof, and visibility that make the right buyers understand why you belong in their room.

Put the right opportunities into motion with the intelligence, tools, follow-up, and system to keep moving toward booked stages.

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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
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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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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.

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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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Speaking leads don’t get you booked.

Where are you right now?

See the kinds of rooms looking for speakers.

See the rooms you’re getting ready for.

See the kinds of opportunities ready speakers can pursue.

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 is waiting.

Become bookable.

Build your booking pipeline.

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