The World of Speaking is Complicated and Mysterious.
Experienced Speakers Can Light the Way.
Our Lighthouses
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Laura Gassner Otting
A former White House Presidential appointee and current Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of three books, Laura’s latest talk has more than 2M views on TED.com. She is a frequent contributor to Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, Oprah Daily, and Harvard Business Review.
Laura is managed exclusively by VaynerSpeakers, and repped by every leading speaking bureau in North America. She has keynoted for the full range of clients, including Harvard, Google, Beachbody, Lilly, Spartan Games, Marriott, Ameriprise, General Electric, and the US Armed Forces.
She has been ranked by Global Gurus as the #3 Motivational Speaker in the World, and one of Real Leaders Top 50 Keynoters. Even Mel Robbins says, “Lucky for you Laura Gassner Otting is here…”
Laura’s expertise is jump starting mid-career transitions into writing bestselling books and speaking on big motivational, entrepreneurship, and sales kick off, and leadarship stages.
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Tasha Eurich
An organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author, Tasha is the world’s #1 self-awareness and communication expert. She’s spoken live to hundreds of thousands, on every continent but Antarctica, and her recent TEDx has more than 9 million views (TED.com+YouTube). Her clients include Google, Salesforce, Walmart, J&J, Allstate, Microsoft, T-Mobile, The Air Force, YPO, Deloitte, Gartner, and Whataburger.
She’s written three books: Insight (which Adam Grant calls 1 of the 3 titles he recommends most), Bankable Leadership, and Shatterproof (2025). A contributor to Harvard Business Review, she’s been featured by outlets like NBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TED, NPR, Marie Claire, and Men’s Health.
Tasha’s expertise is combining hardcore scientific research with humanity and humility for leadership, corporate, and general audiences, as well as global speaking.
This isn’t a sales page.
You already want to get the next level, you just need a little light shown on the path.
We get asked all the time for the tips, tricks, advice, and strategies that helped us become highly sought after professional speakers and bestselling authors. We had to learn a lot of these lessons the hard way, over years of trial and error.
We can’t spend time with everyone who asks, so we got together and formed this collective. Peruse the expertise and experience to find the person whose path resonates with you and that you’d most like to follow at this age and stage of your career.
Then all you need to do is click on their picture/bio to learn how to reserve time with your new lighthouse.
Lessons We’ve Learned
From time to time we write articles about pivotal strategics, useful tactics, and worthwhile investments of time, treasure, and talent. These are shared exclusively with those who have engaged our services, as an effort to share the knowledge and keep the learning going.
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The Best Tech for a Professional Virtual Keynote Studio
How to Pitch Big Media
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How This Works:
Determine which “Lighthouse” resonates best with you — consider your current platform, topic, ideal clients, and future goals — and the click “buy now” under their bio.
You will get an email confirming your purchase, along with directions of what you need to send for a full review. This will likely include your website, keynote descriptions, a video of your best yet keynote, as well as your topics, goals, and roadblocks.
Your Lighthouse will reach out to you within a week to schedule an hour call where they will review what you have sent and give you some concrete next steps that will move your career in writing and speaking forward.
Should you have any specific goals, questions, or perceived roadblocks, please include them in the email exchange so that your lighthouse can address them during your call.