About Us

The HarperCollins Speakers Bureau is the first in-house publishing lecture agency and continues to be the leading speakers bureau for authors. A member of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB), we represent a stellar list of writers from around the world, and we are uniquely positioned to give meeting planners direct access to an array of fascinating keynote speakers, leadership speakers, and business speakers, including celebrity chefs, investigative reporters, famous actors, best-selling novelists, and more. The HCSB has access to authors from all of the diverse HarperCollins imprints including Harper, Harper Business, William Morrow, HarperOne, HarperStudio, Collins Reference, HarperCollins Canada, Ecco, Amistad, HarperPerennial, HarperCollins Children's Books, Avon, Eos, Rayo, as well as sister companies, Hyperion and Zondervan. Our inside knowledge of the publishing industry allows us to recommend hot authors and speakers on the cutting edge.

An independent lecture agency, the HCSB has the capability to meet the requirements of any event planner. We work with corporations, universities, schools, associations, libraries, clubs, hospitals, foundations, and other professional organizations, groups, and societies in major markets in the United States and around the world. If you are interested in a speaker you do not find listed on this website, we will be happy to locate that speaker, as well as negotiate and broker an engagement on your behalf. We look forward to working with you to meet all of your speaker needs.

HarperCollins is one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Headquartered in New York, the company has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Its publishing groups include the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children's Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand, and HarperCollins India. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.

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John Cleese may be best known for his goose step in Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch and as the zany hotel owner in “Fawlty Towers,” ‘70s-era British television comedies that played up the weirdness lurking beneath petit-bourgeois conventions. These days, Cleese has a new gig: teaching businesses how humor can “unleash creativity” and how creativity can lead to “better and more enjoyable customer service.”

As Speakers' Bureaus Grow, Booksellers Cast Wary Eye by Edward Nawotka

One of the most surprising revelations to emerge from Dead Certain, Robert Draper’s new bio of President George W. Bush, was that the president plans to make his post—White House fortune on the speaking circuit. Perhaps he can join his daughter Jenna, whose children’s book, Ana’s Story, has become a bestseller and who has just signed up to be a client with the in-house speakers’ bureau at her publisher, HarperCollins. “It’s a vote of confidence for us that she didn’t go with an outside firm,” said HarperCollins speakers’ bureau director Jamie Brickhouse.