Creator of the Springboard Marketing™ system, Vickie Sullivan is internationally recognized as the top market strategist for experts on the professional speaking circuit. Since 1987, she has helped thousands of experts in a wide variety of industries position their perspectives for high-fee speaking engagements, consulting, and coaching assignments in their most profitable markets.
Clients report a 400% return on objectives and significant increases in revenue within 120 days of taking her recommendations to the marketplace.
Vickie speaks throughout the U.S. and Canada about speaker selection trends in high-fee markets and the strategies that position experts for those venues. She has shared her expertise with such audiences as the Institute of Management Consultants, the National Speakers Association, and has been invited to address Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in the fall of 2006.
Her market intelligence updates, as well as The Sullivan Report, are distributed to experts in the U.S. and 17 international countries.
Vickie is also the author of best-selling learning systems: Your Position of Power™: packaging your Expertise for High-fee Markets, Talking to Strangers: Effective Sales Conversations for Experts who Speak and Become Sponsor Savvy: An Experts Guide to Finding and Obtaining Sponsorships learning systems.
Vickie has served twice on the editorial board for Professional Speaker Magazine, and her articles about the speaking market have been published in other publications such as Presentations magazine and the Handbook of Business Strategy.
She also has been quoted in mainstream media such as Fortune.com, The New York Times and Investor's Business Daily. Her groundbreaking work has earned her an appointment on the Women's Leadership Board supporting the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Vickie resides in Tempe, Arizona with her husband and two children (the kind that meow), Tigger and Jaz.
For a free copy of Vickie's report, Ten Secrets to Profitability in the Speaking Business, subscribe to her Market Intelligence broadcasts at www.SullivanSpeaker.com.