Ideas

The internet and developments in communication technology promised to liberate us from place.  If we could see and hear another being on the opposite side of the world, clearly and in real… Read full article.

7 years ago, when I was 11 years old, I started building websites for family and friends. This onetime hobby has since quickly transformed my life. Now aged 18 I run a… Read full article.

We recently hosted a breakfast event titled “Leadership in Uncertain Times” and the two keynote speakers – Baroness Manningham Buller and Margaret Heffernan – asked themselves are these times really uncertain? More so… Read full article.

I’m writing this on a Tuesday (worst day of the week) in November (my least favourite month) in 2016 (need I say more?)  I thought I’d lift myself out of this dark… Read full article.

JLA’s Octavia Rothwell talks through the best Olympic talent on offer… As a relatively new member of the JLA team, I’m still rather in awe of some of the motivational speakers who cross our… Read full article.

Adam explores what motivation actually means, and how motivational speakers can help you succeed… Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be an existential piece examining what it is that gets us up… Read full article.

I have been working at JLA for almost a year now, and the diversity of motivational speakers that we deal with never ceases to surprise me. Whether it is politicians, psychologists, sports… Read full article.

The first quarterly round-up of the new speakers that JLA have met recently and are excited about. Every three months we’ll briefly profile the latest conference speakers (and occasionally presenters, after dinner… Read full article.

VAT on conference speakers and speaking engagement fees is, unfortunately, a fairly dull topic. Possibly even more so when you consider that previous blogs about our conference speakers contain more than their… Read full article.

Even with our illustrious history, these really are heady days for Scottish sport. Our football team face a make or break game against Poland to make the playoffs for Euro 2016 –… Read full article.

My passion is educating for digital equality. I want to make a difference in the world, through reporting and speaking about the digital revolution. I never talk about server parks. I never… Read full article.

When someone asks you to say a few words it’s the ‘few’ that’s important not the ‘words’. No-one ever complains about a speech being too short. If you’ve had no time to… Read full article.

With the Women’s World Cup captivating global audiences, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of some of the female sporting speakers we proudly represent at JLA. These eight inspiring… Read full article.

Put bluntly, after dinner speakers have been around for a long time. The world’s first recording of an after dinner speech is dated October 5th 1888. In this short speech, Sir Arthur… Read full article.

One of the first questions I’m usually asked when I mention that I work for a speaker bureau is, “Who is the best speaker you’ve seen?” This normally follows the initial, tentative… Read full article.

When I first started working at JLA I had spent the last three years living between the USA and Japan. As a result, so many of the speakers we regularly work with… Read full article.

I’ll get this out the way first. I’m unusual. I mean nothing too weird, but I do like politicians. I studied politics at university and it annoys me when members of the public say… Read full article.

With the annual awards season in full flow, Halloween always seems to sneak up on us – that last themed party before the eight-week slog to Christmas. In the corporate world where… Read full article.

This week JLA director Jeremy Lee and our office appeared on primetime BBC for the second time in two years (Check out BBC 2’s Funny Business from 2013 too.). In this Friday’s… Read full article.

There was a time when Tim Minchin regularly worked with speaker agencies.  A time before the sell-out arena tours, Olivier award winning musicals and armies of obsessional fans, when he was a… Read full article.