John O’Leary
Helping Build a Message Into a Global Platform
John O’Leary is a bestselling author, internationally recognized speaker, and inspirational thought leader whose message has reached millions around the world.
For 12 years, I worked alongside John to help build, manage, and expand his professional speaking career -transforming his powerful personal story into a thriving global platform.
Services Provided
Speaking Platform Strategy
Business Development
Speaker Bureau & Client Relationships
Sales & Relationship Development
Contract Negotiation & Management
Media & Public Relations Support
Keynote & Messaging Support
Brand & Marketing Support
Team & Operational Strategy
The Challenge
John has an extraordinary life story, meaningful perspective, and a natural ability to connect with audiences.
The opportunity was to build the strategy, relationships, systems, and brand around his message to reach significantly more people - and create a sustainable speaking business capable of continued growth.
The Process
As John’s first employee, my role spanned nearly every aspect of building and managing John's speaking platform.
I helped cultivate relationships with clients and speakers bureaus, pursue and secure speaking opportunities, manage contracts and logistics, support keynote and messaging evolution, develop business and marketing strategy, and create systems to strengthen the client experience and generate repeat and referral business.
As John's platform expanded, I helped manage the infrastructure behind that growth - supporting the team, marketing initiatives, partnerships, and opportunities that allowed his message to reach increasingly larger audiences.
The Result
Over our 12 years working together, John's speaking platform grew from an emerging business into an internationally recognized brand with 100+ keynotes every year, reaching more than one million people around the world.
His expanding platform includes two New York Times bestselling books, a major motion film, Soul on Fire, a top-ranked Apple podcast, and extensive media exposure.
The experience gave me something that can't be learned from a course or playbook: firsthand knowledge of what it takes to build a speaking platform over time - from the message on stage to the strategy, relationships, discipline, and execution behind it.
