When planning your membership organization meetings, there will be many predictable elements, such as introducing new members, taking votes on issues, and more. However, you will need to come up with exciting and beneficial meeting content to fill up your agendas if you want members to attend religiously.

1. How to Find
Great Speakers
for Your Next
Association Meeting

2. Planning an Association Meeting
• Predictable elements
• Introduce new members
• Take votes on issues
• Reports from committees
• Add element of education/entertainment in the
form of guest speakers to add variety

3. 3 Places to Find Speakers for Meetings
• Chapter Members
• Community Members
• National Speakers Association

4. Members from Your Chapter
• Knowledgeable about industry topics
• Practice their public speaking skills
• Allow other members to get to know speaker
better

5. Ideas for Members to Present
A relevant technical skill, such as new software
Facts about an industry news story, plus how it
will impact members
A “book report” about a pertinent topic

6. Members from the Community
Eager to share their business
Tips:
Provide community member with time limit
Share with them what technology is available (ex:
projector)
Set presentation content expectations

7. Ideas for Community Members to Ask
Lawyers discussing law relevant to
your industry
Tax or financial experts
Business coaches
Review list of local Chamber of
Commerce members

8. National Speakers Association
National Speakers Association website:
nsaspeaker.org
Search based on topic/location
Some speakers provide videos so you can
preview their style

9. Still Need Ideas? Ask Members!
Conduct a survey to get their suggestions
Use your membership management software
or a free survey tool
Members may have connections with
speakers you can leverage

10. Inspiration for Motivating
Speakers
“Effective communication is 20%
what you know and 80% how you
feel about what you know.”
-Jim Rohn

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