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Find Your Voice
Clarify your story, your message, your audience, and what you want people to carry with them after you leave the stage.
For Speakers
Your story deserves more than a microphone.
Whether you are finding your voice, developing your message, building your platform, or preparing for bigger stages, BTBY helps speakers develop the skills, tools, opportunities, and support to take the next step.
Training, coaching, speaker development, certification, stage opportunities, and advanced pathways for speakers ready to keep growing.
Start Where You Are
There isn't one kind of speaker.
Some people arrive with a story they have never told from a stage. Others have been speaking for years and know they are ready for something more.
You don't have to fit into one box before you begin. We start by understanding where you are, what you want to accomplish, and what you need to develop next.
Speaker Development
We aren't here to turn you into somebody else's idea of a speaker.
The goal is to help you understand what makes your voice, your experience, and your message valuable, then build the skills to communicate it with confidence and purpose.
Because becoming a stronger speaker isn't just about learning what to do when someone hands you a microphone.
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Build Your Platform
Develop the tools, confidence, materials, and professional presence that help move speaking from an idea into something you can build upon.
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Expand Your Stage
Continue developing your craft while pursuing new audiences, opportunities, relationships, and stages that fit where you want to go.
You don't have to know exactly where speaking will take you. You just need to know where you're starting.
More Than Stage Time
Speaking is the visible part. The work starts before that.
Strong speakers are built through practice, feedback, preparation, and a clearer understanding of what they want their message to accomplish.
We work on the person behind the presentation.
Speaker development is not simply memorizing a speech or learning where to stand on stage.
It is learning how to communicate with intention, understand your audience, strengthen your delivery, respond to feedback, and build confidence through actual practice.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is to help you become more prepared, more intentional, and more effective every time you step in front of a room.
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Your Message
Clarify what you actually want to say, why it matters, who needs to hear it, and what you want them to remember.
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Your Delivery
Develop stronger pacing, storytelling, presence, confidence, audience connection, and the ability to communicate naturally.
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Your Platform
Begin building the professional tools, positioning, and clarity needed to pursue speaking beyond a single event.
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Your Experience
Practice, receive feedback, keep learning, and prepare yourself for the rooms and opportunities you want to pursue next.
A microphone can amplify your voice. Speaker development helps make sure you know what you want to do with it.
Your Next Step
One speaker community. Different ways to grow.
Where you begin depends on where you are today. Some speakers need training and support. Some are ready to build professional credibility. Others are looking for advanced opportunities and bigger stages.
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Develop Your Craft
Speaker Training & Coaching
Develop your message, delivery, confidence, platform, and professional speaker tools with coaching, training, feedback, and opportunities to keep practicing what you are learning.
This may be for you if...
You have a story or message you want to develop, you are newer to professional speaking, or you know you need stronger tools and support before pursuing larger opportunities.
Request a Speaker Interview
Start with a conversation about your goals, experience, and where you want speaking to take you.
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Build Professional Credibility
Become a BTBY Certified Speaker
For speakers who want to take their development further, the BTBY Certified Speaker pathway is designed around stronger preparation, professional expectations, continued development, and representing the standard of the BTBY speaker community.
This may be for you if...
You are serious about developing speaking as part of your professional work and want to learn more about what it means to become a BTBY Certified Speaker.
Request Certification Information
Tell us a little about yourself and your interest in the BTBY Certified Speaker pathway.
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Advanced Speaker Path
BTBY Elite
Elite is being developed for experienced speakers who are ready for a higher level of strategy, support, positioning, access, and stage opportunities.
This may be for you if...
You already have meaningful speaking experience and are looking for the next level rather than the beginning of your speaker journey.
Request Elite Information
Let us know where you are in your speaking career and what you are looking to build next.
Not sure which path fits? That's exactly why we start with a conversation.
The goal isn't to fit every speaker into the same program. It's to understand where you are, where you want to go, and whether BTBY is the right place to help you get there.
Why We Start With a Conversation
We don't start with a sales pitch.
Speaking is personal, and the path is different for everyone. Before we talk about programs, stages, or next steps, we want to understand what you are actually trying to build.
Fit Matters
We want you to know what you're saying yes to. And we want to know you too.
The interview is not about proving that you are already a perfect speaker. It is about making sure expectations are clear, understanding your goals, and deciding whether the BTBY speaker community is the right environment for what you want to accomplish.
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Tell Us Where You Are
We want to understand your current speaking experience, your message, the stages you are interested in, and what you have already done.
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Tell Us Where You Want to Go
Speaking goals look different for everyone. We want to know whether you are pursuing confidence, professional stages, training opportunities, business growth, larger audiences, or something else entirely.
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Understand the Commitment
We want you to know what the program expects, what participation looks like, and what kind of time, travel, development, and investment may be involved before you make a decision.
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Decide Together
If the fit makes sense on both sides, we can talk about the pathway that best supports where you are now and what you want to build next.
You don't need to have everything figured out before you talk to us.
The conversation is part of figuring it out. Tell us a little about where you are in your speaker journey, and we'll start there.
Request a Speaker Interview
Practice Meets Opportunity
Eventually, you need a room.
Training matters. Coaching matters. Rehearsal matters. But speaking changes when there are actual people sitting in front of you.
BTBY is built around an active community of speakers, events, relationships, and opportunities where developing speakers can continue learning in the context of real rooms and real audiences.
Real Audiences
The stage teaches things a classroom cannot.
Every audience is different. Every room responds differently. That experience becomes part of how speakers learn to adapt, connect, and grow.
Learn to step into the room.
Preparation becomes experience.
Build beyond the microphone.
Relationships, visibility, and opportunities continue after the stage.
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Practice Under Pressure
A live room teaches timing, adaptability, audience awareness, and confidence in ways rehearsal alone cannot.
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Learn From Other Speakers
You are not developing in isolation. Watch how other speakers prepare, connect, recover, adjust, and continue improving.
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Build Relationships
Speaking creates conversations. Conversations create relationships. And relationships often create opportunities no training manual could predict.
We can help you prepare for the stage. The goal is to help you become ready when the room appears.
Build the Speaker Toolkit
Being ready to speak is only part of being ready to book.
Once your message and delivery begin to take shape, the next step is making it easier for other people to understand who you are, what you speak about, and why you might be right for their audience.
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Your Speaker Bio
Build clear versions of your bio that help organizers quickly understand your story, experience, credibility, and perspective.
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Your One-Sheet
Create a concise professional snapshot of your message, topics, positioning, experience, and speaker identity.
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Your EPK Assets
Organize the headshots, bios, branding, links, media, and supporting materials that make it easier to present yourself professionally.
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Your Positioning
Get clearer about the audiences you serve, the conversations you belong in, and how you describe the value of your message.
Your message has to leave the room before you do.
A great stage performance matters. But the people deciding who gets invited, interviewed, referred, or booked often encounter your materials before they ever hear you speak.
That means your professional presence should make it easier for someone to understand what you do, who you serve, and why your voice matters.
Speaker Development Meets Speaker Business
We help connect the craft to the professional side.
The goal is not to turn every speaker into the same brand. It is to help you build materials and positioning that support the speaker you are becoming and make sense for the opportunities you want to pursue.
The stage gives people a reason to remember you. Your speaker toolkit gives them a way to find you again.
Beyond the Stage
Speaking can open doors you didn't know were there.
A stage can create more than applause. It can create conversations, relationships, visibility, credibility, media opportunities, collaborations, and entirely new directions for your work.
Relationships Change the Story
Sometimes the opportunity starts after you leave the stage.
The people you meet, the conversations that continue, and the relationships built around speaking can become just as meaningful as the presentation itself.
Become a Published Author
Your message doesn't have to end when you leave the stage.
Explore the BTBY Anthology Series
Media & Visibility
One conversation can lead to another platform.
Growth & Recognition
The journey can take unexpected turns.
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Relationships
Speaking places you in rooms with people you may never have met otherwise.
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Publishing
Your story can move beyond the stage and become part of something people can carry with them.
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Media
Your message may create opportunities for interviews, podcasts, video, or other platforms.
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New Directions
Sometimes speaking reveals possibilities you could not have planned for at the beginning.
Opportunity isn't a guarantee.
We don't believe in promising that one program, one stage, or one introduction will create a particular outcome.
What we can help you do is become more prepared, more professional, more connected, and more capable of recognizing an opportunity when it appears.
The doors may be different for every speaker. Being ready to walk through them is part of the work.
You may begin because you want a stage. What grows from that stage may become much bigger.
Your Next Step
Every speaker starts somewhere.
Maybe you already know the message you want to share. Maybe you have been speaking for years. Maybe all you know is that there is something inside you that belongs outside of you.
Start Here
Tell us where you are. We'll start the conversation there.
Your speaker interview gives us a chance to learn about your experience, your goals, the stages you are interested in, and what you want speaking to become for you.
Request a Speaker InterviewAlready know which advanced pathway you're interested in?
You don't have to know exactly where the journey ends. You just have to decide whether you're ready to begin.