About the Leigh Bureau
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Who We AreOur History
Our Businesses
Our Speakers
Our Offerings
Our Staff
Some Customer Comments About the Leigh Bureau
- Who We Are
The Leigh Bureau is a premium speakers bureau serving business and sophisticated cultural audiences worldwide. We exclusively represent some of the world's most prominent leaders and personalities in a wide range of fields: business and economics, politics and public life, science and technology, entertainment and the arts. We specialize in Speakers of Substance—people who are thought leaders in their fields who offer the best in platform performance and valuable content.
- Our History
The Leigh Bureau is the world’s longest-established premium speakers bureau. The business was founded in 1929 by W. Colston Leigh, the father of our current chairman Bill Leigh. Since then, we have represented some of the world’s top speakers and public personages, such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Boris Yeltsin. We’ve also helped to shape the industry itself over the decades and we have made significant contributions to the wider culture. We led the way into the business speaking market in the early 1980s and this continues to be our distinguishing strength—that we represent speakers who bring real business value to the organizations they address and the best analysis, insight and commentary to audiences in the public sphere.
- Our Businesses
The Leigh Bureau is the flagship firm of the Leigh Group, which includes five related enterprises. Three are speakers bureaus that have been seperately formed to better serve the global speaking market. The Leigh Bureau serves audiences in North America. Leigh Bureau Limited serves Great Britain and Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. Leigh Bureau International serves Latin America, Asia and other parts of the globe.
In addition to the speakers bureaus, we also have a literary agency (LeighCo) and an advisory services company, Leigh Advisory Services.
We sometimes define our businesses in terms of our speakers' intellectual property: LeighCo helps our clients define and publish their ideas; the speakers bureaus help them promote their ideas; and Leigh Advisory Services helps business leaders implement ideas in their organizations through direct management consulting and advisory services.
- Our Speakers
Business. Our business speakers include business leaders, academic researchers, business journalists, writers and consultants—all first-tier people with substantive content that has real value for business audiences.
Political & public life. The Leigh Bureau represents writers and historians, analysts and commentators, important academics and fellows at policy institutions—women and men who are major contributors to public discourse in both the United States and Europe.
General audiences. We also represent speakers with broad appeal who are inspirational, informative, and often very funny, in programs of great interest to any audience looking for substance presented with a light touch.
Special programs. We offer some unique programs that transcend categories. We have always found ways to create new experiences that are tailored directly to the desires of specific audiences.
- Our Offerings
Keynotes. As a speakers bureau, we specialize in matching audiences with the speakers who can add the most value to your event, with keynotes of varying lengths to fit any slot in your agenda, with or without a Q&A. But that's not all we offer.
Moderators. We also represent a number of people who are seasoned moderators and facilitators, who can lead a single panel discussion or MC an entire event and help you design your program. They combine depth in their area, often knowing as much about the topic they are moderating as do the other members of the discussion, with great people skills and experience at keeping things on track and in service to the strategic goals of the event.
Seminars & workshops. A single keynote not enough depth for your audience? Many of our speakers will develop a customized program of greater length—half-day, full-day or multiple days—or a follow-up break-out session on the topic of their keynote.
Advisory services, management consulting & executive coaching. Beyond the expanded program for a given event, many of our speakers also offer advisory services, management consulting or executive coaching custom-designed to meet specific strategic needs. Through Leigh Advisory Services, we would be happy to discuss how we might create such a relationship with the leaders of your organization.
- Our Staff
The Leigh Bureau team combines the most experienced people in the industry with enthusiastic young talent. If you would like to contact one of our representatives directly, click here.
- Some Customer Comments About the Leigh Bureau
I have worked with other speakers' bureaus, but never have I enjoyed an experience as seamless and professionally handled as this one.
We were very impressed with your ideas. As you know, I shared them with my internal clients, and they were exactly what we were looking for. Your comments were insightful. You thought deeply about our event. And put together this wonderful list. You obviously have a great knowledge of what is out there. And you listened to what we were looking for. So often I get ideas from other bureaus, and it’s just what they know. They don’t listen to what I am saying. I was impressed. My clients were impressed. This is why I call you. I just thought you should know how much I appreciate it.
You, however, have been amazing—turn on a dime, totally customer focussed, and you got immediately who the group is and what they'd need.
"This is why I call you…"