What Sets Apart Today’s Best Keynote Speakers?
Today, the ranks of Keynote Speakers have swelled. Believing motivational professional speaking to be an “easy ticket” to fame and fortune, many have hung out their shingle as a keynote speaker. Although increased competition in the professional speaking field is good for meeting and event planners, sponsors and ultimately, audiences, the problem with this huge upsurge in keynote speakers is that many lack both the skills and qualifications to meet the real needs of the audiences to which they speak. In regard to skills, this is both the area most obvious when the public speaker’s skills are insufficient to the task, but also the most easily overcome. Individuals willing to train aspiring keynote speakers also abound, although as with the ill prepared speakers, many of the would-be speaker trainers also sell more hype than substance. However, good training is available from well qualified individual coaches as well as well through local chapters of the National Speakers Association (ww
