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Featured Ebooks & Reports
Download our premium industry guides to elevate your staging and speaker management.
10 Things I Wish I Knew About Landing Speaking Gigs
This ebook is designed to help you understand why an event organizer like myself would want to work with you as a speaker at an event.
Speaker Economy Impact Report
Our comprehensive annual analysis of trends, speaker compensation benchmarks, gender representation, and event logistics on the continent.
Mastering the Brief
A step-by-step framework for event curators and organizers to design agendas, draft briefs, and align keynotes with business objectives.
Heard In Africa Masterclasses
Watch our latest video discussions, staging guides, and expert interviews on our YouTube channel.
How to Pitch and Build a World-Class African Speaker Roster
In this masterclass, Chimfumnanya "Nana" Nwandu breaks down the key vetting metrics, contract considerations, and speaker development programs required to connect African talent with world-class stages.
When to Charge, Invest & Walk Away | Live with Joyce Daniels
The Value of Your Voice Is More Than Your Speaking Fee Many speakers know what to charge. Far fewer know when to charge, when to invest in their speaking career, and when to walk away from opportunities that don't align with their value. These decisions shape not only your income but your reputation, positioning, and long-term growth as a professional speaker. Join us for The Speaker Economy by Heard In Africa as we explore "The Value of Your Voice: How African Speakers Decide When to Charge, When to Invest, and When to Walk Away." Hosted by Nana Nwandu, Founder of Heard In Africa, this conversation features Joyce Daniels—The Queen of Talk, Executive Speaking Coach, Founder, and Author. Whether you're an established speaker, an aspiring keynote speaker, a coach, consultant, executive, or thought leader, this session will provide practical insights to help you navigate the business side of speaking. Your voice is valuable. Learn how to protect it, position it, and profit from it.
Global Conferences Need African Speakers. Here is How They will Find You
Ready for the Stage? Global Conferences Need African Speakers. Here is How They will Find You This is the producer's perspective. Directly from someone who builds some of Africa's most influential technology and innovation stages. Olayide Babayemi is a conference producer whose work has shaped the speaker programmes of some of Africa's most internationally visible technology and innovation events. She has spent years identifying speakers, evaluating submissions, designing programmes, and making the decisions that determine who gets invited to speak—and who does not.
What Makes a Speaker Worth It? | Live with Meta Nelson
What does it actually take for a speaker to be worth their fee and who gets to decide? In the first episode of Speaker Economy: Africa, Heard In Africa sits down with Meta Nelson, Founder & Agent at Meta Speakers LLC (USA), to open the conversation Africa's speaking industry has been avoiding. Meta manages speakers inside the global bureau ecosystem and works daily with the people who book, brief, and pay talent at the highest level. This is the insider perspective African speakers, event organizers, and industry builders need to hear.
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From the Blog
Why Africa's Speaker Economy Is the Most Underserved Opportunity
A foundational piece establishing Heard In Africa's point of view on why speaker management infrastructure matters for the continent.
How to Brief a Speaker Properly: The 7 Things Most Producers Forget
A practical, shareable guide for event producers and programme designers who want smoother, stronger speaker sessions.
What Makes a Conference Programme Great? The Real Agenda
A programme design piece for organisers who want every session to move the room toward a clear, lasting business outcome.
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Speaker Readiness Assessment
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