Professional Speaking with Maria Franzoni
Clowning Around Podcast - A podcast by Emma Stroud
Do you want to be a speaker who gets paid? What makes a good speaker? What steps can you take to be a really memorable speaker? Join Em as she chats all this and more with the brilliant Maria Franzoni – expect giggles, parrot chat and more! Follow Maria Franzoni: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpeakingBusiness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-franzoni About Maria Franzoni: 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 office to 25 offices globally and being named 'the only global speaker bureau' by the International New York Times. She ran her own bureau for 14 years and was a founding member of the European Association of Speaker Bureaus. More recently she founded Speaking Business Academy a training company showing 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.