National Speakers Association

NSA HI - Stan Phelps, CSP (Virtual)
2025-01-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | https://www.nsahawaii.org/events/2025-january-lunch-and-learn
Welcome Stan Phelps, CSP
as he shares out his
Golden Goldfish – The Vital Few
Join Stan Phelps as he shares insights on developing speaking opportunities and growing your influence.
Register at https://www.nsahawaii.org/events/2025-january-lunch-and-learn

NSA Oregon Tamsen Webster (Hybrid Event)
2025-01-13 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Phoenix) | https://nsaoregon.org/events/hybrid-event-tamsen-webster-january-13-2025/
Hybrid Event – Tamsen Webster, January 13, 2025
Built for Buy-In: The simplest, strongest way to get audiences invested in your ideas
https://nsaoregon.org/events/hybrid-event-tamsen-webster-january-13-2025/
When there’s so much competition for time, attention, and resources, getting your ideal audience to see yourspeech and your idea as right for them—quickly—is critical. But what do you do when all your reasons for being “right” aren’t right for those you’re talking to? In this practical and energizing presentation, 25-year message strategist and speaker Tamsen Webster will show you how to get people invested (literally and figuratively!) in all you have to offer, starting with the easiest storytelling elements for your audience to identify with: the principles that provide common ground for even the most uncommon ideas.
After this presentation, you'll be able to:

Understand why challenging people's beliefs is the enemy of intrinsic motivation, and what to do instead.
Clearly and quickly identify who is, and isn’t, an ideal fit for your ideas and keynotes—and why—so youcan focus your efforts where they’ll have the greatest effect.
Follow a framework for simplifying them to their most important, and irresistible, elements and building in buy-in from the beginning.

About Tamsen Webster
Part message designer, part English-to-English translator, part magpie, Tamsen Webster helps leaders craft their case for large-scale change. A sought-after speaker and consultant, she’s spent more than 25 years developing the field and practice of persuasive message design, with a particular focus on theprinciples and processes that build buy-in that lasts.
In addition to her work in and for major organizations such as Harvard Medical School, Fidelity Investments, and Klaviyo, she built and delivers the message design curriculum for ElementalExcelerator, a leading investor in impact startups. She’s a judge and mentor for the Harvard Innovation Labs and a professional advisor at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. She’s also spent over 10 years as the Idea Strategist for one of only nine legacy-level TEDx events and was named to theThinkers50 Radar in 2022. She published her first book, Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible, in 2021. Her next book, Say What They Can't Unhear: The 9 Principles of Lasting Change is available in bookstores everywhere in October 2024.
Tamsen was a reluctant marathoner… twice; is a champion ballroom dancer (in her mind); and learnedeverything she knows about messages, people, and change as a Weight Watchers leader. True story.
She lives in Boston with her husband, two sons, and her two brindle Greyhounds, Hazel and Walnut.
Doors open at 5:30! Show up early to grab the best seat in the house and network with your speaker family!
Hybrid Event! Select your ticket below and look for the confirmation email for appropriate details. Location info to come.
https://nsaoregon.org/events/hybrid-event-tamsen-webster-january-13-2025/

NSA NorCal: Ed Risgbee, CSP - Selling to Associations
2025-01-11 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Zoom
Info and registration at www.nsanc.org/events

NSAAZ: Stageside Leads: How smart speakers win more gigs, more often, at higher fees without spending a dime on marketing
2025-01-11 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix) | MAC6 Coworking Space, 1430 W Broadway Rd, Tempe, AZ, United States
They tell us to build our personal brand. Shoot those YouTube videos. Increase our engagement on TikTok. Launch that podcast. They tell us to create a one-sheet, send it to organizers, and follow up.
No response? That's okay. Follow up again.
They tell us that we need to do more direct outreach if we want to book more gigs. Publish more content. Buy more ads. They tell us that the key to filling up our calendar is to pick a niche and promote ourselves.
Still nothing.
But what if the key to building a sustainable speaking career requires none of those things? What if the fastest and most effective way to win more gigs, more often, at higher fees, is by tracking only one number: stageside leads?
A stageside lead is a request to speak at another event secured within 72 hours of stepping off the stage or powering down your web camera. It's the most important number to speakers bureaus. Shouldn't it be for you too?
In this exhilarating 90-minute workshop that will change your approach to speaking success, full-time keynote speaker Andrew Davis will break down exactly how to take any speech from $0 to $20K per gig in less than six months.
You'll learn how to leverage the Velocity Philosophy and exploit Fee Parity. He'll show you how to set your fees, profit from the power of Compounding Gigs, and map your referral tree for long-term sustainable success. You'll even see how he books 55 gigs a year at a quotable fee of $20k—without a speaker bureau.
So, are you ready to leverage the power of stageside leads and turn 1 gig into 100?
Register: https://nsa-arizona.org/event-5936559

NSAMI Seminar
2025-01-11 06:30 - 10:30 (America/Phoenix) | Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

NSA Philly - The Connection Code: Unlock Your Speaking Potential Through Relatability
2025-01-10 06:30 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix) | 640 Fountain Rd, Plymouth Meeting, PA, United States
Transform your speaking career by mastering the art of relatability – the powerful ability to authentically connect, communicate with, and inspire any audience. In this engaging program, learn research-backed strategies to move beyond mere likability to create meaningful audience connections that lead to more bookings, better feedback, and bigger impact. Discover how to leverage your authentic story, communicate with presence, and inspire through genuine connection to become the speaker audiences remember and recommend.
Register: https://nsaphiladelphia.org/meetinginfo.php?id=90&ts=1734371664

NSANW: Last Story Standing SIG
2025-01-08 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix), 2025-01-08 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2024-12-19 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix), 2024-12-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2024-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
www.nsanorthwest.org/events

Lauren Schieffer- Virtual Event
2025-01-08 15:30 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA
TOPIC: Nine Essentials to a Significant and Sustained Speaking Business
Registration Link: https://bnsalinks.com/LaurenSchieffer

Starting at 5:30 pm, we’re introducing BNSA Business Boost Sessions—25 minutes of powerful, bite-sized insights designed to be concise, impactful, and highly effective. Get ready to hear from industry leaders regarding engaging topics like fashion, branding, presentation tools, and more! Then, from 6:00-7:00 pm, we’ll continue with our Education Session featuring a guest speaker who will inspire and elevate your expertise.

And we’re not stopping there! From 7:00-8:00 pm, it’s time to roll up our sleeves with our Deep Dive Discussion Session, where you will discuss with BNSA members what you’ve learned and what you plan to put into action in your speaking business. Because at BNSA, we know that information without activation is a waste of time—and we’re making 2025 all about growth, action, and transformation!

DESCRIPTION

What are the nine most essential factors necessary to grow and sustain your speaking business? These crucial elements are often overlooked by emerging speakers who are looking for fast growth and by seasoned speakers who are looking to reach that next level. Unfortunately, forgetting any of these Nine Essentials can stall or completely tank your business.In this engaging and interactive session, Lauren will share her Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership© and how they correlate and are crucial to building, strengthening and transcending in your speaking business.

The nine essentials crucial to a sustained speaking business
The communication faux-pas that make meeting professionals crazy
What significance in your speaking business REALLY means

NSA Austin Chapter Event
2025-01-03 08:00 - 11:00, 2024-12-06 08:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA

NSA Austin SIG Meeting
2024-12-20 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-11-15 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA

NSA Austin Holiday Party (In-person Event)
2024-12-14 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Phoenix) | https://nsa-austin.com/events/holiday-party-december-14/
In-person Event – Holiday Party December 14, 2024
https://nsa-austin.com/events/holiday-party-december-14/
Come join us to celebrate another successful year of NSA!
Get ready to wrap up the year with laughter, friends, and festive cheer! It’s time to come together for the NSA Austin Holiday Party, where good vibes and great memories are guaranteed.
Date: December 14thLocation: Cover 3Dress: Casual, festive, and ready to have fun!Lunch and dessert included – treat yourself!
Don’t miss out—RSVP by December 1st to secure your spot!
Tickets:$40 for Members & Guests – bring your friends, the more, the merrier!
Let’s make this a holiday bash to remember!
https://nsa-austin.com/events/holiday-party-december-14/

Turn Conversation into Keynote Contracts
2024-12-11 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | CA
Quinn Conyers-Bio Attached

Turn Conversation into Keynote Contracts with Quinn Conyers.

Registration: https://bnsa41.wildapricot.org/event-5716119
Questions? office@blacknsa.com

Many speakers and entrepreneurs have a passion for the podium but struggle to attract and close speaking contracts consistently. As a result, they are stuck or stagnate in their speaking career or have no direction or solid speaking strategy besides referrals or spin off business to keep them booked and busy.
Entrepreneurs, business owners, and professional speakers will learn how to have intentional, obvious, and NOT so obvious conversations that lead to consistent keynote clients and speaking contracts.
In this session discover:

How to identify “conversation” opportunities that lead to keynote clients and signed contracts.
What a Verbal Business Card is and why every speaker needs one no matter if you’ve been speaking for 2 days or 2 decades.
How to attract speaking opportunities using wealthy NOT weak words on social media and podcast interviews.
How to retire your boring and basic elevator pitch to be super successful operating a sustainable speaking business.
How to differentiate yourself from other speakers in your industry so you or your speech topic don’t appear easily duplicatable.
How to take clients from interested to invested in working with you after just one conversation.

Turn Conversation into Keynote Contracts
2024-12-11 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | CA
Turn Conversation into Keynote Contracts with Quinn Conyers.

Registration: https://bnsa41.wildapricot.org/event-5716119
Questions? office@blacknsa.com
Many speakers and entrepreneurs have a passion for the podium but struggle to attract and close speaking contracts consistently. As a result, they are stuck or stagnate in their speaking career or have no direction or solid speaking strategy besides referrals or spin off business to keep them booked and busy.
Entrepreneurs, business owners, and professional speakers will learn how to have intentional, obvious, and NOT so obvious conversations that lead to consistent keynote clients and speaking contracts.
In this session discover:

How to identify “conversation” opportunities that lead to keynote clients and signed contracts.
What a Verbal Business Card is and why every speaker needs one no matter if you’ve been speaking for 2 days or 2 decades.
How to attract speaking opportunities using wealthy NOT weak words on social media and podcast interviews.
How to retire your boring and basic elevator pitch to be super successful operating a sustainable speaking business.
How to differentiate yourself from other speakers in your industry so you or your speech topic don’t appear easily duplicatable.
How to take clients from interested to invested in working with you after just one conversation.

NSA Oregon Holiday Party (In-person event)
2024-12-09 20:30 - 22:30 (America/Phoenix) | https://nsaoregon.org/events/2024-holiday-party/
In-person Holiday Party 2024

🎉 Join Us for a Celebration! 🎉
https://nsaoregon.org/events/2024-holiday-party/
As we celebrate another successful year and ring in 2025 together, let’s embrace the spirit of connection and joy!
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
We invite all Members of NSA (National) and NSA Oregon—past and present—to come and catch a glimpse of your future with NSA Oregon! If you’re not yet an active member, please use the “Friends & Family” option.
This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and reconnect with fellow speakers in our area.
Potluck Tradition!In the spirit of holiday gatherings, we’re hosting a potluck! Please sign up to bring a dish to share with your speaker family [here].
Feel free to share this invitation with any speaking colleagues looking to connect!
We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
✨ Looking forward to a joyful gathering! ✨

https://nsaoregon.org/events/2024-holiday-party/

NSA NorCal Holiday Party
2024-12-07 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix) | Chicken Pie Shop, 1251 Arroyo Way, Walnut Creek, CA, United States

NSA Oregon Build a Better Business Summit
2024-11-16 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix) | https://nsaoregon.org/events/in-person-event-saturday-summit-november-16-2024/
In-person Event – Saturday Summit November 16, 2024

Build a Better Business: Saturday Summit!
https://nsaoregon.org/events/in-person-event-saturday-summit-november-16-2024/
Join us for the ultimate event tailored for entrepreneurs and business leaders! The Build a Better Business Saturday Summit promises a day brimming with insightful sessions, invaluable networking opportunities, and the tools you need to elevate your business.
Event Highlights:

Gain insights from industry leaders who will share their knowledge and experiences to help you navigate the business landscape.
Participate in hands-on sessions designed to provide practical strategies and actionable takeaways.
Connect with like-minded professionals, exchange ideas, and build relationships that can propel your business forward.

Lunch Provided: Enjoy a delicious box lunch! Menu options will be available to accommodate various dietary preferences.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to grow your business, be inspired, and forge connections that can last a lifetime.
Doors open at 9:00 am! Show up early to grab the best seat in the house and network with your speaker family!
In-person Event!
https://nsaoregon.org/events/in-person-event-saturday-summit-november-16-2024/

NSANW: Craig Valentine
2024-11-16 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Mercer Island Community & Event Center, 8236 SE 24th St, Mercer Island, WA, United States

NSA Ohio: Sima Dahl, CSP
2024-11-15 08:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix) | https://www.nsaohio.com/november-24-event-1
Personal Branding for Speakers: How to Generate Demand for You & Your Expertise
In this energizing program, international keynote speaker and corporate trainer Sima Dahl, CSP, AS, and MBA, will show you how to increase your visibility, improve your memorability, and create more opportunities to share your expertise. Sima has shown thousands of difference-makers around the world how to increase their Sway Factor™, her term for the degree to which your behavior, online and off, generates demand for who you are and what you do. In this hands-on program, you’ll learn three simple personal branding hacks every go-getter can practice in just minutes a week to stand out, stay relevant, and be in demand.
In this session, attendees will:

Apply the Sway Factor™ personal branding model to achieve your speaking aspirations
Create personal brand champions from the moment you say hello
Use your digital footprint to stay top of mind with everyone you meet

This is a hybrid event. Register here: https://www.nsaohio.com/november-24-event-1

Member Accelerator, Pathways to Paid Engagements, Virtual
2024-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | CA

Stories Unplugged: A Deep Dive Into What Makes Stories Work(Virtual)
2024-11-13 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | CA
Stories Unplugged: A Deep Dive Into What Makes Stories Work with Kelly Swanson

Registration: https://bnsa41.wildapricot.org/event-5716100
Questions? office@blacknsa.com
Join Kelly in a deep dive into the art of story. Kelly will share a few stories that she uses on stage, and we will unpack them to discuss the techniques underneath. Then Kelly will highlight the stories from the audience and provide on-the-spot feedback. Get your burning questions about stories answered by a pro. All attendees will get lots of online resources to take home.

NSANorCal: Ford Saeks - Growing Your Speaking Empire
2024-11-09 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Executive Inn & Suites, 1755 Embarcadero, Oakland, CA, United States
Register at www.nsanc.org/events

NSAMI: Karyn Buxman
2024-11-09 06:30 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix) | Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

NSA Philly: Discover Your Speaker - Unleash Your Unique Voice on Stage!
2024-11-08 06:30 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix) | Pyramid Club, 1735 Market St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Register here: https://nsaphiladelphia.org/meetinginfo.php?id=84&ts=1729020301
Ever wonder why some speakers captivate the room with ease while others struggle to make an impact? The secret lies in discovering your unique Speaker ActorType! In this fun and dynamic session, based on insights from Robyn’s book, Standing Ovation Presentations, you’ll embark on an exciting journey to uncover the persona that drives your most authentic and powerful speaking style. Whether you’re a natural-born storyteller, a charismatic motivator, or an analytical thinker, finding your Speaker ActorType will help you own the stage like never before. Through interactive exercises and real-world examples, you’ll gain tools to refine your strengths, transform your delivery, and connect with any audience. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this session will inspire you to elevate your presentations and leave your audience cheering for more! Get ready to take the stage with confidence, clarity, and your ActorType leading the way! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to transform how you communicate and deliver standing ovation-worthy presentations every time!
