Speak

by Holly Burton

speakers

Interested in Speaking in Front of Ambitious, Career-Driven Women?

You've come to the right place!

WIMDI is a community of intermediate and senior professional women building ambitious careers in male-dominated industries.

We provide a place for members to learn leadership and career skills and find support and community with women who understand their working lives.

We offer our community hour-long talks and workshops that help them advance their careers and lead better.

WIMDI TALKS AT A GLANCE

We Love a Great Talk

All of WIMDI’s resources -- online and in person -- focus on practical, actionable career and leadership skills. We do narrowly-tailored, non-technical topics that are highly practical and immediately applicable to our members’ work lives.

We care about the resources we provide, and aim to make sure each talk is immediately useful to our members.

FIND YOUR TALK TOPIC

We've Got All Kinds of Speaking Opportunities!

We offer our community hour-long talks and workshops that help them advance their careers and lead better. We do narrowly-tailored, non-technical topics that are highly practical and immediately applicable to our members’ work lives.

We need your help to deliver the next game-changing insight that will level up their work. We'd love to have you come and share your expertise.

FIND YOUR TALK TOPIC

What You Get Out of the Deal

We want our relationships with our speakers to feel win-win, so we work hard to treat our talent well. If you speak with WIMDI you’ll get:

An Hour-Long Spotlight to our 4000+ Delightful WIMDI Members
Promotion via our mailing list, Twitter and LinkedIn
A Professionally-edited Recording of Your Talk on YouTube, so you'll get evergreen viewers and SEO clout
To Have a Blast with our incredibly engaged and attentive audience

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Plus You Get Some Speaker Coaching!

Our speaker coach will help you deliver a talk you’re proud of and make you an even better speaker than before.

We love to help our speakers create talks that are dazzling and well-polished that they can pilot with us and then continue to use for years to come.

Our speakers say that the time and care we put into refining their talks is priceless and the best part of working with us.

HOW SPEAKER COACHING WORKS

What Our Speakers Have to Say

Working with the WIMDI Speaker Coach helped me hone my message into a clear, concise and actionable talk that audiences love. I've used my WIMDI talk several times over for corporate speaking engagements and it always gets rave reviews from both organizers and attendees.

Working with Holly and her team helped me grow my speaking skills in a safe and supportive collaborative environment. It's the best speaker training I've had, and I didn't even have to pay for it!

- Darrell Farrow, Stop Sh*tty Comments From Undermining You

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Got Questions?

Who speaks at WIMDI?

We welcome speakers who are in a gender minority in a male-dominated field (women, trans men, and genderqueer, agender, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary folks). We love speakers who are passionate and enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge. Our speakers are technical experts, managers, HR professionals, professional consultants, coaches, and people with subject matter expertise in career and leadership skills, to name a few. On a basic level, we work with speakers who have an idea that will help our community.

Do I need to be an experienced speaker?

We don’t expect you to have already delivered TED-worthy talks at stadium arenas, and we actually love working with people who have a message to get it ready for delivery. If you’re still new to public speaking and are determined to make a go of it, we want to hear from you! We have a strong vision for the types of talks we love to hear and we’re excellent at helping speakers deliver great talks, regardless of experience level. All of our speakers get hooked up with our speaker coach who’ll help you polish your talk and get it ready for the WIMDI stage.

Do you compensate speakers?

One thing we think it’s important to be upfront about is that we don’t pay our Speaker Series speakers. Speaker Series events are free because we want our resources to be available without barriers to as many women as possible. We provide these amazing resources through the power of awesome volunteers, super-generous corporate hosts, and speakers who lend us their talent. Overall, we are a slightly money-losing venture with only one budget line item: Name Tags. Although we don’t have budget to pay our speakers, we try our best to give our speakers an amazing experience. We’re happy to help you share your knowledge with our community and want to make sure you get the opportunity to network with potential clients, or maybe recruit your next hot-shot employee!

What kind of topics are you looking for?

All of WIMDI’s resources -- online and in person -- focus on practical, actionable career and leadership skills. We care a lot about resources. We provide and aim to make sure each talk is immediately useful to our members. If you want all the details on things WIMDI loves, and loves a little less you can find them here

How long are the talks & when are they?

The whole event is two hours long -- but don't worry, you don't have to talk the whole time! Your talk should be approximately 45 minutes in length (including Q&A time) and delivered lecture or workshop-style. Our webinars take place every four weeks throughout the year, on Thursday evenings from 5:30 – 7:30pm PST/PDT.

How many attendees do you normally have?

Audiences range in size between 40 and 200 women, depending on topic, time of year, and other events on the same day. Webinars are recorded and distributed for those who could not attend at the exact time of the webinar. Your talk should be approximately 45 minutes in length (including Q&A time) and delivered lecture or workshop-style.

Sound Like a Match Made in Heaven?

Awesome! We can’t wait to hear from you.

Fill out our application form and one of our volunteers will get in touch to discuss potential speaking opportunities.

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