Welcome to DBA Speakers
Premier bespoke speaker agency.
30 years experience in the business.
Unrivalled personal attention.
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Your succesful event is our delight.
Every event is special for us.
Let us help make yours extraordinary.
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Welcome to DBA Speakers
Our Speakers are extraordinary.
We ensure our personal relationship with them benefits you.
Experience our knowledge, personal experience and attention to detail.
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The best people for the best people.
Many of our clients return year after year.
About
Who we are
The success of your event can hinge on the power of your speaker’s energy and message. Leave your audience amazed, invigorated, entertained and wanting more!
Combining their skill and expertise with passion and thorough preparation, they deliver outstanding results. Every presentation is tailor made for your success.
Our speakers enhance your event, conference, meeting, seminar, awards dinner or client event. From leadership and business speakers, economists, best-selling authors, AI & digital transformation experts, world-class athletes to top motivational speakers, plus exceptional event hosts & moderators, our people deliver.
While some of the best professional speakers are available only from DBA Speakers, we also work with trusted third parties, but you are always welcome to book with us direct.
Approach
We adopt a highly personalised approach to helping you choose the right person, focusing on achieving a successful partnership where everyone achieves their goals.
- Experienced
- Personal
- Professional
- Human
In a world of AI and automation, call or email us if you prefer to work with genuine people, whose work and results are based on true knowledge, attention to detail and human experience.
I’m always impressed when I can see that a speaker has been carefully chosen, properly briefed and the client is delighted.
Diana Boulter
We believe we are the best at what we do. This is backed up by the many excellent reviews such as:
Had Diana Boulter organised the Normandy D-Day Landings, they would have been more successful
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Diana Boulter
Diana founded DBA Speakers in 1995 in response to requests from clients and speakers. She is renowned for personalised attention to detail, care of her speakers and clients, and her address book is legendary….
She is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers.
Born in London, Diana obtained a double honours degree in French and Italian then applied her skills as a multi-lingual tour director working throughout Europe.
She later worked in London for a global investment firm handling mergers and acquisitions for high-tech and skincare firms.
She was then tempted back into travel by a bespoke travel company organising tailor-made holidays in France and Italy. A unique opportunity led to a role working for a British aristocrat and running a stately home in Suffolk. Diana later joined the sales team of a speaker-booking agency in London, and the rest is history...
In her spare time she volunteers at the North Hampshire Repair Café where she repairs textiles and soft toys. A keen amateur gardener, Diana successfully completed the new RHS Practical Courses. Her current project is to enhance and transform her own garden, and she works on gardens for a small number of private clients. Unsurprisingly, she books the guest speakers for the 'growing' Gardening Club in her village. Diana recently adopted an elderly, abandoned, tabby cat: the new feline joins their two British Shorthair cats. Diana enjoys cooking, travel (especially India, Italy and South Wales), gardening, more gardening, and writing.
Diana is supported by her office team led by Maxine Dunnage who joined DBA in 2011. Maxine is a mine of information on films and music … unsurprising, when you know that her Dad was the drummer for Ronnie Wood’s brother.
Call us and have a chat
We’ll listen carefully to understand what you need, then we can recommend the best people.
We offer advice and guidance based on 30 years of providing excellence. We'll make the whole process easy.
Our speakers enhance your event and our personal approach ensures you get the ideal person.
Our wonderful speakers
Their strengths, their skills, your success.
Find the perfect speaker for your event. Pick a topic and see our suggestions.
Just give us a call, drop us an email, or Whatsapp us to take advantage of our expertise.
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- Adventure
- AI & Tech
- Business & Finance
- Host & Presenter
- Innovation
- Inspiration & Motivation
- Lunch & Dinner
- Space & Science
- Sport & Ability
- Wellbeing & Gardening
Testimonials
What you are saying about us
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Please call or email us for help and advice.
It’s helpful to know your budget, if you have one in mind so we don’t waste time.
Typically, an excellent speaker from us will cost from £2,000 + expenses + VAT, in the UK. You are required to pay the speaker’s travel and hotel expenses which could a car and driver, first class train fares, flights or simply mileage. To make your life simple and keep costs down, we often arrange fees which include all expenses. The fee quoted to you includes the arrangement between the speaker and DBA.
You won’t get an extra bill from DBA for our services and expertise, painstakingly and carefully acquired over more than 30 years.
Terms and Conditions (T&CS) are sent with the confirmation of your booking and available on request. For clarity and transparency, we send the same T&Cs to the client and to the speaker so that all parties are working with the same information.
Cancellation charges are shown on your T&Cs and we can provide details before you book. In some cases, it may be possible to postpone an event: when a venue burned down, we worked very closely with both client and speaker, simply to transfer the booking to the new location and date with no additional cost, or fuss.
If you want to meet the speaker in person for a briefing meeting, and if they agree, there will be an additional cost for their extra time.
If your speaker is a surprise guest, we keep them out of sight until the perfect moment.
It’s always best to clarify this with us at the start.
You may have to pay additional costs to film or record the speaker, depending on how and where you wish to use that material, but prior written permission is required in all cases. There are legal, copyright and IP implications.
If social media is important to you, check before you book. Legal, copyright and IP implications apply, with their additional costs. Prior written permission is always required.
DBA Speakers invests considerable time and resources in our pro-bono work for the charities we choose to support.
All our speakers support their own charities, often for very personal reasons.
We no longer provide signed memorabilia, auction prizes or raffle prizes, including for schools and charities.
We cannot accept “freebie” enquiries or bookings for “expenses only”.
Contact
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