At Innovation Women, our mission is to help every woman become a speaker. Speakers succeed. Speaking supports business and career success. Public speaking can help you connect with potential customers, partners, the media, and even new jobs and investors. Visibility = Opportunity! By connecting female speakers and subject matter experts to these opportunities, we help give women (and those who identify as women or non-binary, and other underrepresented groups) opportunities to build their brands, grow their businesses and advance their careers.
Member Benefits When You Become a Speaker
Event Manager
forever
- Designed for event managers, conference organizers, journalists, and podcasters looking for guests
- Search our database by topic, industry, location, title and more
- Connect directly with speakers and subject matter experts
- Add your Calls for Speakers to our database
- Use our tools to help organize gender-balanced and inclusive events
- Get speakers from our database and we promote your event
- Participate in weekly Speaker Friend Friday Zoom calls
- Download our free “No Manel-zone” kit
Classic Speaker membership
per year
- Speaker profile
- Exclusive weekly speaker newsletter
- Hundreds of open Calls for Speakers
- Tools to manage your speaking applications
- Guest on webinars
- Weekly Speaker Friend Friday meetings
- Feedback on your profile
- Contribute to Lioness Magazine
- Free speaker video
- Promotion in newsletters, website and social media
- Access to our online community
- Hundreds of hours of on-demand educational resources
Content Creator Membership
per year
- Authors and/or podcasters: Get all the features in our Classic membership, PLUS…
- Showcase your book and/or podcast on your speaker profile page
- Links to Buy Now and/or Listen Now
- Author and podcaster icons in the Find a Speaker database
- Access the exclusive Content Creator section of our online community
- Get included in our bookstore
- Lioness Magazine Book of the Week and Cool Casts for Entrepreneurs features
- Special promotions including: Holiday Gifts, Amazon Prime Days, Book Lovers, Podcast Post Month, Summer Reading
Who Can Join?
We encourage all women to consider speaking – entrepreneurial, technical and professional women at all levels. Our speakers and expert sources speak at events of all sizes – keynotes, featured speakers, panelists, round tables, as well as serve as expert sources for journalists, guests on podcasts, mentors and startup event judges…and more. The Innovation Women platform has grown to more than 2500 women speakers from different backgrounds, locations, industries and roles.
How do I Get Booked for Speaking Engagements?
On Innovation Women, there are several ways to access speaking engagements.
Once you are a speaker on the Innovation Women platform, your profile will be available to thousands of event managers who use our database to search for speakers. When your profile matches the needs of a specific event, you will be contacted and receive a notification in your email.
Another way to find speaking engagements is through our online database. We add between 50 and 100 opportunities each week. Apply directly from the website and track your opportunities in our easy-to-use dashboard.
Whenever you agree to a speaking opportunity, don’t forget to let us know so we can promote you. Promotion of your speaking opportunities is important to becoming known!
For more information on how to get started with public speaking, visit the following resources:
Testimonials
“Thank you also for tweeting about us being at the event. I didn’t realize that Innovation Women was so wonderfully hands-on with the speakers once they were selected. Things were great at the WGBH Boston Talks event. It was a great group of people, and I really enjoyed it. They should definitely keep using Innovation Women to find more female speakers. As you know, it was 3 guys and me! The event was extraordinarily well-run and well-planned. They gave us all the supports and guidance needed to talk on stage.”
— Sara Holby, Ajiri Tea