Global Speaking Secrets: How to Get Paid to Speak Around the World

What if your expertise, story, or life experience could help you build a global speaking business—but you are not sure how to get started, or how to grow beyond your local market? In Global Speaking Secrets™: How to Get Paid to Speak Around the World, innovation expert and global keynote speaker Alexander Blass reveals a practical step-by-step system for turning your knowledge, message, and experience into paid speaking and training opportunities across the globe. Whether your expertise comes from business success, professional knowledge, personal adversity, research, leadership, or hard-won life experience, this book shows you how to package it, position it, and profit from it on the global stage. Alexander Blass has traveled to 68 countries and spoken in 21 of them across five continents, earning up to $40,000 per keynote speech and $30,000 for a day of training. Booked by organizations including IBM, Mastercard, KPMG, Toyota, Saudi Aramco, governments, universities, associations, and growing businesses, he has spent nearly two decades learning what actually works in international speaking—and what does not. Now he shares that roadmap with you. Packed with real-world case studies, field-tested insights, and practical strategies you can put into action right away, this book is not theory—it is built on what actually works in the real world from someone who has done it himself. This is not your typical book about public speaking. It is a practical guide to building a global speaking business, getting paid to speak internationally, and creating multiple revenue streams through speaking, training, consulting, licensing, products, certifications and sponsorships. This book is for you if you are a: speaker, aspiring speaker, or author trainer, coach, consultant, or entrepreneur executive, academic, researcher, or subject matter expert thought leader or influencer with a message worth sharing professional who wants to build authority, get booked to speak, and get paid to speak internationally At the center of the book is Alexander Blass’s proprietary 6-step G.L.O.B.A.L. System™: Groundwork & Goal-Setting Lead with Authority: Brand & Signature Speech Optimize Culture & Audience Strategies Build Your Business & Revenue Multiplier Anchor Operations: Travel, Contracts, Risk Control Leverage & Scaling: Building Your Speaking Empire Inside, you will learn how to: build credibility and brand, even if nobody knows your name yet create a signature global keynote and framework audiences will pay for position yourself with authority for event organizers, speaker bureaus, and decision-makers adapt your message across countries, cultures and industries generate lucrative spinoff business opportunities from the stage turn your ideas, message, and expertise into intellectual property avoid 15 costly mistakes that keep talented speakers stuck in local markets turn one message into up to 6 income streams through speaking and training, consulting, content licensing, product sales, certification programs and sponsorship deals build a speaking business that fits your lifestyle, income goals, and long-term vision You do not need to be famous to build an international speaking career. You need the right strategy, the right system, and the right execution. If you want to get paid to speak internationally, get more speaking engagements, expand your authority beyond your home country, turn your message into a scalable business, and open the door to travel, freedom, and life-changing experiences around the world, Global Speaking Secrets™ will show you how.