Let's build your speaker profile.
This is the page that answers the question a planner is already asking, whether they type it into Google, into an AI tool, or into an email to their committee.
Why we ask what we ask
Something has shifted in how planners find speakers. A growing number of them start by asking an AI tool to build a shortlist, and whatever comes back becomes the list of people they actually look at.
Those tools work from what is public, clear, and specific. They cannot read your PDF one sheet. They cannot infer that you are perfect for hospital nurse managers if your page says you speak on leadership.
So the questions below are shaped around the way a real planner describes what they need. Fill in the blanks in this sentence and watch it come together:
I need a speaker on your topic for an audience of your audience in your industry. We are in your area, we need a your format, and our budget is your range.
Gather these first
Tick them off as you round them up. It goes faster if you have everything in one place before you start.
Missing something? Send the form anyway and email the rest when you have it. A complete profile beats a perfect one that never arrives.
What you speak on
FindabilityThese six answers decide whether you turn up in a search at all. Everything else on this page decides whether a planner says yes once they find you.
Plain words, the way a planner would say it. Employee burnout in healthcare. Retirement income planning. Warehouse safety culture. Save your signature method name for your talk titles below.
Roles and seniority, not "anyone who needs motivation." Hospital nurse managers and clinical directors. Financial advisors and their pre-retiree clients. Front line manufacturing supervisors.
Where you have actually spoken or worked. This is one of the first things a planner filters on.
One or two sentences, in their words. What is going wrong that made someone go looking for a speaker?
Concrete, not aspirational. What can the audience do differently on Monday?
Booking details
FindabilityPlanners search with constraints attached. Leaving these blank is the same as being filtered out before anyone reads a word about you.
Tap everything you are set up to do.
More planners now put a budget directly into their search. A profile with no fee information cannot be matched to one. You can still negotiate every booking.
Your talks
DetailHere is where your signature titles belong. Give each one a few sentences on what it covers and what people walk out with.
Proof
FindabilityThis is what separates a working speaker from a nice website. Names and organizations matter here. An unattributed quote carries almost no weight with a planner or a search tool.
Organizations, conferences, companies, or event types. If you cannot name a client, describe the event and the industry.
YouTube or Vimeo. A full talk or a long excerpt is far more useful than a highlight reel. If the video is unlisted or private, please turn on embedding so we can use it.
Paste the quote exactly as it was given to you.
Name, role, and organization.
Only what is genuinely relevant to why someone would book you.
You and your links
DetailYour links connect this profile to everything else you have published, which is how a search tool confirms you are all the same person.
As you want it displayed.
One line.
A paragraph. Send what you already have.
For us, so we can reach you.
What planners will see on your page.
Links to your one sheet, a book, a podcast, media coverage, or anything else you want on the page.
Send it over
There is no upload button here on purpose, because photos come through cleaner as email attachments.
- Tap Copy my answers below.
- Start an email to wendi@charlijane.com and paste them in.
- Attach your headshot and your stage photo.
- Send.
Profiles are built in the order they are received, usually within 10 business days. We will email you when yours is ready to review.
One honest note
Nobody can guarantee that an AI tool will recommend any particular speaker, and anyone who promises that is selling something. What we can do is make sure your information is clear, complete, specific, and public, so that when a planner goes looking for someone who does exactly what you do, there is something accurate to find.