About Us

In June 1995, Farah and Martin Perelmuter got married, moved, quit their jobs and took an entrepreneurial leap of faith. They started Speakers' Spotlight with a strong belief that the needs of conference organizers, meeting planners and speakers could be served in new and better ways.

Since that time, Speakers' Spotlight has redefined the role of speaker agencies, raising the bar of professionalism, service, and integrity to a new level. As a result of this commitment, Speakers' Spotlight emerged not only as the preferred agency of many of the world's leading speakers, corporations, associations, and public and private sector organizations, it also became one of Canada's 100 fastest-growing companies. It was listed in Profit Magazine as #29 on the PROFIT 100, Canada's authoritative ranking of high-growth companies.

With offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, Speakers' Spotlight works with clients throughout Canada and the U.S., as well as South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. To date, they have arranged speaking engagements for clients in more than 30 countries worldwide. Their relationship with numerous international bureaus and clients allows Speakers’ Spotlight to provide you with the most current information, countless resources and the best service. They bring to the table extensive knowledge concerning tax issues, contractual obligations, and immigration queries for international events, as well as the resources to assist you with any questions or concerns that you may encounter concerning your event.

In 2008, Farah and Martin Perelmuter were finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and Speakers' Spotlight was named one of three 2008 Walk the Talk Top Employer Award winners. Click here to see the promo clip of Speakers' Spotlight for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Going forward, with a team of the most passionate, dedicated and experienced professionals in the industry, Speakers ' Spotlight is certain to continue to be North America's most innovative speakers bureau, representing the most extraordinary speakers, leading thinkers, and inspiring individuals.

Watch a video and find out more about Speakers' Spotlight's 2008 Walk the Talk Top Employer Award:
http://www.walkthetalkers.com/speakerspotlight.php

In what may be the best book ever written about public speaking, Working the Room, published by the Harvard Business School Press, communications expert Nick Morgan begins with the statement: "The only reason to give a speech is to change the world".

OUR VISION is to change the world by helping put the right speaker in front of the right audience at the right time.

Today, anyone can go on the internet and find hundreds, if not thousands of speakers on any given topic. The questions are:

1.How do you know if they are any good?

and perhaps more importantly...

2. How do you know if they are right for your event?

OUR VALUE is wisdom - utilizing our knowledge and experience with common sense and insight.

Through our work with thousands of clients from virtually every industry and sector, we have worked with, and seen, hundreds of speakers from across North America, and abroad. Our deeper benefit to you is our ability to listen intelligently to your needs and objectives, and match those with our collective knowledge and experience to recommend the perfect speakers for your event.

Finding the right fit is both an art and a science. It is part knowledge, part intuition. It requires more than just information - it requires experience and perspective. It requires wisdom.

People & Ideas... We are a company made up of Passionate and Compassionate people. We value relationships more than transactions. We believe in abundance not scarcity. We respect intelligence not arrogance.

Our Core Values:

• Authenticity
  
• Ingenuity
  
• Integrity
  
• Flexibility
  
• Accountability
  
• Reliability
  
• Likeability
  
• Curiosity
  
• Humility
  
• Sustainability