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Welcome to Great Women Speakers.com, your resource for booking outstanding women speakers www.great women speakers.com , a division of VOICES, INC. Founded by Francine B. Read in 1993, VOICES, INC. features outstanding women speakers and celebrities as part of the VOICES Contemporary Lectures in Portland, Oregon www.VOICESinc.com. In 2000, VOICES expanded to feature Great Women Speakers.com, the premiere resource to assist meeting planners to find outstanding women speakers. There are many speakers bureaus but no bureaus do what VOICES does . . . offers you the talents of only women speakers and produce a public lecture series that brings women’s voices to the podium. We are a full-service speakers bureau working closely with clients and the speakers; negotiating fees, travel arrangements and contract details, insuring the program is a success. Topics include motivation, communication, business, leadership, life balance, humor, women’s health and many more. We assist Fortune 1000 companies, large and medium-sized corporations, government entities, colleges, universities and non-profit organizations bring world-class speakers to their audiences.
This is how we work with our clients:
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We quote the same fee the speaker quotes and save you the expense of researching, locating, contacting, contracting and verifying all arrangements. With great women speakers.com, one call does it all.
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Our services are free to you. You incur no extra cost by consolidating your planning process through great women speakers.com.
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Speakers keep us posted of their itineraries. As such, we may be able to save you the cost of expensive air travel by providing you with a speaker who is either local to your meeting site or who just happens to be in town for another meeting.
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Since we only represent the best speakers, our prescreening can save you hundreds of hours of verifying if the speaker you are interested in is really as good as the speaker’s brochure claims.
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If we do not have a speaker in our database or that speaker is exclusive with another bureau, we can co-broker with most bureaus in the world.
Since 1993,
the VOICES Contemporary Lecture Series is
the cornerstone lecture series in the Northwest (www.voicesinc.com) for featuring famous women. The
current lineup can be found at Voices Contemporary Lecture Series web page.
Here is a list of the women we have featured since 1993 as part of the VOICES Contemporary Lectures:
VOICES of the Past in order of appearance: Linda Ellerbee • Sarah Brady • Geri Jewell • Cicely Tyson • Jehan Sadat • Dr. Helen Fisher • Faye Wattleton • Molly Ivins • Ellen Goodman • Leslie Abramson • Honorable Ann Richards • Kathy Buckley • Lesley Stah • Geraldine Ferraro • Cathy Rigby • Liz Carpenter • Patricia Schroeder • Terry Gross • Isabel Allende • Lynn Sherr • Beverly Sills • Liz Curtis Higgs • Jane Alexandes • Gloria Steinem • Susan Stamberg • Gail Sheehy, Eleanor Clift with Bay Buchanan • Anna Quindlen • Linda Wertheimer • Joan Rivers • Dr. Sylvia Earle • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Katherine Martin • Sister Helen Prejean • Lucie Arnaz • Sue Kirby • Ann Curry • Stephen Engelberg • Diana Jordan • Helen Thomas • Janet Reno • Susan Faludi • Lalita Tademy • Sherron Watkins • Sarah Weddington • Nadine Strossen • Erin Brockovich • Mavis Leno • Susan Orlean • Catherine Crier • Anna Deavere Smith • Arianna Huffington • Michele Norris and Marlee Matlin.
We are happy to share our experiences in working with these speakers or assist you in finding the right speaker to make your next event a great success. Thank you for visiting our community of women.
 Francine Read was selected to be one of the NW Women’s Journal’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Town!
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