Your Easy Button for Booking the Perfect Speaker
Gail Davis, 27 January 2026
Event planners juggle a lot from timelines and budgets to stakeholders and endless details. Finding the perfect speaker shouldn’t be another heavy lift. That’s why we aim to make every partnership feel like hitting the easy button.
CHALLENGE
Planners have more tools than ever available at their fingertips between Chat GPT, Google, and speaker websites.
Yet the speaker search has never felt more overwhelming.
With thousands of options, endless vetting, shifting agendas, and pressure to “get it right,” choosing a speaker can feel like a second full-time job. Add travel logistics, contracts, stakeholder opinions, and last-minute changes, and the process quickly becomes anything but easy.
TYPICAL METHOD
Most people think: “I’ll just search online, pick a few options, and figure it out.” But that’s where the hard part begins.
You end up researching, cross-checking, combing through speaker’s social media, reviewing videos, and trying to uncover red flags all while keeping up with all the other details of planning your event. And once you finally find someone promising? You can face handoff after handoff, unclear communication, and little support if anything goes sideways.
The result: more work, more stress, and no easy button in sight.
RECOMMENDATION
But the truth is: GDA serves as the easy button for event planners by simplifying decisions, reducing workload, and supporting every detail from start to finish.
At our core, we help event planners by:
- Simplifying the speaker search: Fully vetted, on-target recommendations without the endless research.
- Acting as an extension of your team: Handling contracts, logistics, and speaker selection while building continuity year after year.
- Anticipating and managing issues: Proactively addressing travel, weather, or last-minute changes so you don’t have to.
- Streamlining communication: One point of contact backed by a full team.
- Saving time across events: Reusing approved legal terms, saving shortlists, and enabling faster stakeholder buy-in through polling tools.
The result? Fewer decisions, less stress, and a smoother planning experience.
✅ Start by outlining your event vision with our team.
✅ Partner with your GDA contact to streamline decisions and communication.
✅ Use GDA’s tools (like polling, shortlists, and saved terms) to speed up approvals and planning.