Former Speaker Bureau owner, Maria Franzoni has 25 years of speaking industry experience. She has held senior positions at CSA Celebrity Speakers and London Speaker Bureau. At London Speaker Bureau Maria played a major role in taking the bureau from one UK office to 25 offices globally and being recognised as the most international speaker bureau by the New York Times. 
She ran her own international speaker bureau for 14 years, was a founding member and former co-chair of the European Association of Speaker Bureaus. More recently she founded Speaking Business Academy a training company teaching speakers how to apply the strategies and tactics of speaker bureaus to grow their businesses.
Maria has worked with the great and the good of the speaking world, including first man on the moon Neil Armstrong; Body shop founder and environmentalist Anita Roddick; survival expert Bear Grylls; business magnate Richard Branson and F1 and NASCAR racing champion Jacques Villeneuve …. To name (drop) a few.
You can find Speaking Business Academy here https://www.mariafranzoni.me/
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