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The first quarterly round-up of the new speakers that JLA have met recently and are excited about. Every three months we’ll briefly profile the latest conference speakers (and occasionally presenters, after dinner… Read full article.

VAT on conference speakers and speaking engagement fees is, unfortunately, a fairly dull topic. Possibly even more so when you consider that previous blogs about our conference speakers contain more than their… Read full article.

Even with our illustrious history, these really are heady days for Scottish sport. Our football team face a make or break game against Poland to make the playoffs for Euro 2016 –… Read full article.

My passion is educating for digital equality. I want to make a difference in the world, through reporting and speaking about the digital revolution. I never talk about server parks. I never… Read full article.

When someone asks you to say a few words it’s the ‘few’ that’s important not the ‘words’. No-one ever complains about a speech being too short. If you’ve had no time to… Read full article.

With the Women’s World Cup captivating global audiences, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of some of the female sporting speakers we proudly represent at JLA. These eight inspiring… Read full article.

Put bluntly, after dinner speakers have been around for a long time. The world’s first recording of an after dinner speech is dated October 5th 1888. In this short speech, Sir Arthur… Read full article.

One of the first questions I’m usually asked when I mention that I work for a speaker bureau is, “Who is the best speaker you’ve seen?” This normally follows the initial, tentative… Read full article.

When I first started working at JLA I had spent the last three years living between the USA and Japan. As a result, so many of the speakers we regularly work with… Read full article.

I’ll get this out the way first. I’m unusual. I mean nothing too weird, but I do like politicians. I studied politics at university and it annoys me when members of the public say… Read full article.

With the annual awards season in full flow, Halloween always seems to sneak up on us – that last themed party before the eight-week slog to Christmas. In the corporate world where… Read full article.

This week JLA director Jeremy Lee and our office appeared on primetime BBC for the second time in two years (Check out BBC 2’s Funny Business from 2013 too.). In this Friday’s… Read full article.

There was a time when Tim Minchin regularly worked with speaker agencies.  A time before the sell-out arena tours, Olivier award winning musicals and armies of obsessional fans, when he was a… Read full article.

Trying to explain to people exactly what my job is has turned out to be more challenging than I’d originally expected. I’m an assistant in a Speaker Bureau, but to those not… Read full article.

Andrew McMillan headed the John Lewis Intelligence Team, with responsibility for customer service and analysis of demographic trends. He is now JLA’s most popular business speaker when addressing the challenges of creating… Read full article.

If you’re organising an event in Yorkshire, we will help you find a suitable keynote speaker. On this page you’ll find Yorkshire speakers who have made their name in business, politics, sport… Read full article.

On this page you’ll find a cross section of female speakers who all relish the after dinner slot. One has been the face of foreign news reporting, another leads the way in… Read full article.

We supply sporting after dinner speakers for all sorts of event – from sales conferences to client hospitality and annual association gatherings. Sporting after dinner speakers come in all shapes and sizes…. Read full article.

JLA provide guest speakers, presenters and performers for more than 2,000 client events each year throughout the UK and Europe. If you’re organising an event in Scotland, we will help you find… Read full article.

JLA provide guest speakers, presenters and performers for over 2,000 corporate and industry events each year in the UK and continental Europe. We supply current affairs presenters to chair conferences, moderate debates… Read full article.