It all began with Black Speakers Collection.
This community is meant to be a resource not only for Black speakers but for organizations who are looking to amplify and diversify their panels, their organizations and their teams.
Why Now?
Too often people want to pay in exposure, so we decided to take that part out of the equation. We are committed to giving Black speakers, consultants and talent the exposure they need so they can get paid what they deserve.
We believe we all deserve to secure the bag and not at the expense of our humanity.
Always free for community members to join because access isn't about paywalls.
“Seeing an obvious and apparent need in the market, speaker, HR and culture advisor and DEI consultant Madison Butler decided to curate a platform to make it easier to source Black speakers. “I started [Black Speakers Collection] on accident! I was tired of hearing about how companies, conferences and events couldn’t find Black speakers and then only chose us to speak about topics like race,” Butler shared in an email. “I posted a LinkedIn post highlighting the fact that Black speakers speak on all topics and invited Black Speakers to share their info. I realized that this was beautiful data and knew it would be a loss if we wasted it. We originally had 28 speakers and have grown to 1,100 in under four weeks.”
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PCMA
“Tired of hearing from event organizers that they can’t find Black speakers, one HR and DEI consultant launched a directory that now lists more than 2,000. And she's started a second directory listing Black executives”
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Black Enterprise
“Every speaker should expectedly be compensated equally for their expertise, insight, and mastery. Yet, there are disparities between races. Madison Butler launched the Black Speakers Collection to help simplify the sourcing of speakers after identifying a clear and plausible need in the space.”