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Booking Juliet Funt with Premiere Speakers Bureau is a streamlined 4-step process: 1. Availability Check: Contact us with your event date and budget to verify if your desired speaker is available. 2. Hold Date: We place a temporary 'hold' on the speaker's calendar while you finalize internal approval. 3. Contracting: We issue a contract outlining the fee, cancellation policy, and event expectations. 4. Logistics: Once signed, our event management team handles all travel booking, itinerary, and AV requirements.

Why should I partner with Premiere Speakers Bureau rather than contacting speakers directly?

Partnering with Premiere Speakers Bureau provides a comprehensive safety net for your event that direct booking cannot match. You get the same speaker for the same price, but with a dedicated team with over 30 years of event experience handling contracts, logistics, and are prepared for any emergency. We know what it takes to run an excellent event.

What makes Premiere Speakers Bureau unique compared to other agencies?

Premiere Speakers Bureau distinguishes itself by having over 30 years of experience while partnering with more than 35,000 events. PSB has also built a streamlined, fully online process that makes booking a speaker, handling travel and payments extremely easy for anyone looking to plan a speaker led event.

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Premiere Speakers Bureau operates on a 'Zero Cost Service' model for event planners. Our services—including research, booking, and logistics—are always free to the client. The speaker covers our commission from their standard honorarium as payment for our role in marketing and managing their engagements.

How are speaker fees structured, and what is typically included?

A speaker's fee typically covers the keynote presentation, a pre-event planning call, and standard customization. Travel expenses are usually billed separately.

What are the standard policies for speaker travel and expenses?

Travel expenses are negotiated during contracting. We generally recommend a flat travel fee for simplicity, though we also offer line-by-line invoicing when preferred. PSB ensures these expenses adhere to professional standards, and our Event Portal allows for easy tracking and invoicing.

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High Energy Global Speaker, Advisor to the Fortune 500 on Surviving the age of Never Enough

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Featured in top media outlets such as Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company, and NPR, Juliet Funt is a globally renowned keynote speaker, tough-love advisor to the Fortune 500, founder and CEO of the efficiency training firm, Juliet Funt Group. Juliet is the author of A Minute to Think, nominated for the Next Big Idea Club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Dan Pink. She is an evangelist for freeing the potential of companies by unburdening their talent from busywork, and she has brought her powerful concepts to Spotify, National Geographic, Anthem, Vans, Abbott, Costco, Pepsi, Nike, Wells Fargo, Sephora, Sysco, and ESPN.

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Featured Keynote Programs

The De-Selection Advantage

Why having 151 “priorities” is killing your execution, and how to fix it

Organizations are not failing from a lack of ambition. They are being crushed by an excess of it.

Most leaders, in their drive to achieve, treat work like a pie-eating contest, where the goal is always MORE. More initiatives, more meetings, more metrics, more work about work. Volume becomes the measure of true commitment. But the result of “more” is not always momentum. It is often fragmentation, decision fatigue, and execution that slows to a crawl while teams heroically absorb the weight.

This paradigm is broken, and it’s expensive. In more than twelve years of research across industries, the Juliet Funt Group has proven that employees report spending 23% of their time on low-value work, at a cost of $1,000,000 annually for every 50 people. Much of this wasted payroll cascades down from over-planning at the top, in the form of too many different priorities and projects. Nobody wins. Execution slows. The best people burn out or check out.

The skill that we pretend to have, but do not, is that of de-selection. Teams orchestrate stop-start-continue exercises but never actually stop anything. But there is a way out of this vice grip of intensity, and it’s not even complex. All that is required is the decision to shift the goal from volume to value.

In this signature keynote, Juliet Funt introduces the Reductive Mindset: a practical operating philosophy for leaders who want to protect the work that actually produces results. With humor, precision, and examples drawn from real organizations, she shows why complexity gets rewarded, why excess gets normalized, and most importantly, how to fix these issues.

Over the course of 60 minutes, Juliet Funt takes us on a 5-Stage Journey from fragmented to focused:
• Less Fatigue: reclaim the vitality needed to take the next step
• Less Volume: the overflowing pile of low-value work finally shrinks
• Less Drift: time-waste and distractions are vanquished
• Less Email: because it’s become everyone’s primary mission
• Less Meetings: so there is time to do actual work

Audiences leave with a concrete framework for evaluating commitments, cutting low-value activity, and recovering the decision quality that overload destroys. This talk lays a clear and simple path to doing what matters most every day.

The highest-performing leaders are often the ones most willing to stop, remove, and reduce. In a business environment addicted to accumulation, the ability to cut with intelligence is not a soft skill, but a competitive advantage.

Wow Them

How to Build a Presentation from Start to Finish

(Also available: General Presentation Skills and Storytelling) Many professionals, even those with ample experience, either don’t have a system in place to plan a presentation or skip planning entirely, diving headfirst into assembling their elements without foresight. This approach rarely leads to success. Instead, this session will show them how to take a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to transform their presentations into persuasive and inspiring stories that command attention. The process is segmented into five critical stages: Material Gathering, Emotional Arc, Vivid Illustration, Honing, and Slide Creation. Each stage is a stepping stone in your journey to master the art of presentations, giving you the confidence and expertise to captivate any audience.

De-Crapify Your Workflow!

Solving the Equation of Too Much Work and Too Few People

Are your talented teams drowning in meetings, emails, decks, and to-dos without the foggiest clue about how to reduce the pile? Today’s organizations are aggressive in their goals, and workers often lack the skills to choose the right focus for their energies. Eventually, they can’t bear the workload anymore and leave, fail or quietly disengage. The solution, however, isn’t as simple as hiring more hands. Instead, it requires a significant paradigm shift in how we perceive activity vs. true productivity. This session offers a roadmap to this shift, providing practical tools, strategies, and frameworks to reevaluate, prioritize, and streamline your team’s workload. It champions the adoption of a Reductive Mindset, which emphasizes efficiency and effectiveness by ruthlessly eliminating unnecessary and non-value-adding touchpoints of the day.

Feed The Fire

Going Upstream from Mental Health at Work

Organizations are providing resources for mental health, and that’s good. But despite all of the yoga, therapists, and puppy parties (yes, really), there’s a problem. Rarely are these solutions going upstream to address the chronic, predictable, and solvable conditions and norms that make folks so stressed in the first place. Healthcare costs soar, and people remain unhappy. As a remedy, this session shines a light on the concept of ‘white space’ - unscheduled, open periods that offer a much-needed breather and a platform for restoration. Drawing inspiration from Juliet Funt’s acclaimed book A Minute to Think, the session explores strategies to reclaim and make effective use of this margin. It also offers tools to alleviate burnout and exhaustion, simplify work, curb the flow of digital pestering, and reduce the weight of meetings.

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Featured Book

A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work

by Juliet Funt

“You’re going to want to share copies of this book with your overbooked friends and colleagues, but before you do, take some time to read it yourself. Funt’s wisdom around making space is priceless.” —Seth Godin, author of The Practice

Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire?

Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible—until now.

In A Minute to Think, Juliet Funt, a globally recognized warrior in the battle against busyness, provides a powerful guide that will give you the permission, framework, and specific direction you need to do the following:

Regain control of your overloaded, caffeinated, inbox-worshiping workday
Liberate yourself and your teams from burnout and busywork
Reclaim creativity and focus despite the chaos around you
Bring thoughtfulness into designing your next work norms
Tame the beast of email and escape the mire of meetings
Find your precious minute to think

You’re not alone in your yearning for freedom from constant reactivity. The global workforce today is so fried that it belongs in the food court of a county fair. We’re relentlessly behind the curve, dousing fires everywhere, and our 3 a.m. insomnia provides the only unscheduled thinking time of the day.

What we need reinserted in our lives is the missing element of white space—short periods of open, unscheduled time that, when recaptured, change the very nature of work. White space is the stepping back, the strategic pause, the oxygen that allows the sparks of our efforts to catch fire. White space has the power to radically—and simply—reinvent the way we approach work in this maxed-out, post-COVID 21st-century world.

With Juliet’s memorable stories, easy-to-use tools, and razor-sharp instruction, she carves for us an escape route from the overwhelming amount of low-value tasks and the daily avalanche of e-mails, meetings, decks, and reports. Using research, client stories, and a relatable voice, Juliet shows all of us how to reclaim time for thinking and make room for what truly matters. Whether you are an individual trying to build a more sane and humane flow of daily work, a team that wants new levels of efficiency and effectiveness, or an entire organization changing your culture toward thoughtfulness, this book will lead you there.

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Featured Articles & Resources

3 Ways To Make The Most Of Your Vacation

By Juliet Funt

High Energy Global Speaker, Advisor to the Fortune 500 on Surviving the age of Never Enough

It’s so important to make your vacation an actual vacation, so we asked Juliet Funt, CEO of White Space At Work,, to provide three quick tips to make the most of your...

Juliet Funt knows what Event Planners go through..... she was one! [VIDEO]

By Juliet Funt

High Energy Global Speaker, Advisor to the Fortune 500 on Surviving the age of Never Enough

SGMP 2012 Keynote from The Audition Studio on Vimeo. Juliet Funt gets it! She fully understands what meeting planners can go through on the day of an event. As...