| Speaker Name |
Speakers' Bureau |
State Chamber Recommending |
Notes |
| Dan Ackerman |
|
Chamber of Commerce Hawaii |
Really good, but all depends if it's relevant for the particular state. |
| Evan Bayh |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
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| Guy Benson |
Premiere Speakers Bureau |
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce |
"Worth every penny." |
| Ross Bernstein |
|
Iowa Association of Business & Industry |
Motivational speaker & author; peak-performance business speaker; https://www.rossbernsteinspeaking.com/ |
| Tom Brokaw |
|
Indiana Chamber of Commerce |
Also spoke at PA Chamber |
| Arthur Brooks |
|
Indiana Chamber of Commerce |
Brooks spoke to Kentucky and Kansas Chambers as well. "He was excellent and a great crowd-pleaser with a message about “compassionate conservatism”" |
| George W. Bush |
|
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce |
Could not have been more gracious with our guests. |
| Charlie Cook |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
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| Mitch Daniels |
|
Kansas Chamber of Commerce |
"Very good message, but a little dry." |
| Jess Ekstrom |
|
North Carolina Chamber |
Founder of Headbands of Hope; motivational; keynote |
| Gus Faucher |
|
Vermont Chamber of Commerce |
"economics" |
| Steve Forbes |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
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| Anne Grady |
|
North Carolina Chamber |
Resiliency, motivational, keynote |
| Nikki Haley |
|
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce |
Represented by WSB. Very expensive and is getting a lot of bookings. |
| Homer Hickham |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
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| Lou Holtz |
|
Ohio Chamber of Commerce |
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| Earvin "Magic" Johnson |
|
Association of Washington Business |
Served as dinner keynote for Policy Summit. Engaging, entertaining, entrepreneurial, big draw |
| Derreck Kayongo |
Kepler |
North Carolina Chamber |
Motivational, keynote
|
| Kim Lear |
Washington Speakers Bureau |
State Chamber of Oklahoma |
Generations and Future of Work Expert. She was fantastic. She’s young, energetic, funny and her presentation on the age of the multigenerational workforce was very well received by our audience. Everyone wanted to stick around and chat with her afterwards.
|
| Eric Maddox |
|
State Chamber of Oklahoma |
Reviewed favorably by our members and were far less expensive than most of the big names. |
| Sharon Delaney McCloud |
|
North Carolina Chamber |
Motivational; Keynote; Resiliency |
| Bruce Mehlman |
Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas |
State Chamber of Oklahoma |
Reviewed favorably by our members and were far less expensive than most of the big names. |
| Dana Perino |
Leading Authorities |
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
|
| Reince Priebus |
|
Association of Washington Business |
Delivered one of the best keynotes ever |
| Condoleeza Rice |
|
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce |
Could not have been more gracious with our guests. |
| Larry Sabato |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
|
| Debbie Sterling |
|
Association of Washington Business |
Clearly connected with our members with her story of GoldieBlox, the company she started to engage young girls with STEM and to disrupt the “pink aisle” at toy stores. |
| Chris Stirewalt |
Leading Authorities |
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
|
| John Stossel |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
Stossel spoke to Kansas Chamber as well. |
| Michael Strahan |
|
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce |
"Pretty good and interacted well with our guests." |
| Matt Thornhill |
SIR |
Vermont Chamber of Commerce |
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| JD Vance |
Washington Speakers Bureau |
Indiana Chamber of Commerce |
|
| Chris Wallace |
|
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce |
Moderated with Jay Carney and Andy Card on a panel that was ok. |
| Amy Walter |
|
State Chamber of Oklahoma |
Editor of the Cook Political Report and Host of WNYC’s The Takeaway Fridays. Booked her via Leading Authorities. She spoke at our annual Public Affairs Forum and provided a national political update. She was great to work with and very personable.
|
| Dr. Charles Weathers, Sr. |
|
North Carolina Chamber |
Diversity & inclusion. Firm is The Weathers Group. |
| Christie Todd Whitman |
|
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce |
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| George Will |
|
State Chamber of Oklahoma |
He is expensive and has strict contractual limitations |
| Kristi Yamaguchi |
|
Chamber of Commerce Hawaii |
She was well-received, but she had a connection with Hawaii via her non-profit. |
