About "Mentori Associates"Barry Jones - owner and director of "Mentori associates": "At Mentori Associates we sell keynote speakers. Combining 10 years of experience with a 3 tier sales strategy we bring together thought provoking communicators with audiences around the world who need the latest views and ideas.
Although our business model is built around an association with keynote speakers we consider ourselves to be business innovators rather than a speaker bureau and as a result we don’t feature a website that showcases hundreds of speakers with whom we have little contact. Our “ raison d’etre “ is undoubtedly the ability to match the right speaker with the right event and audience whilst also providing a full service including logistics. Focused on relationships with a close knit portfolio of speakers who we have worked with previously and clients whose sector challenges and opportunities we understand this innovative approach is the key to delivering the best level service. “ The only thing that’s constant is change “ is an often heard declaration as companies face a variety of hot topics and burning issues that challenge their growth and expansion forcing them to seek the latest objective views and innovative solutions. Tier One of the "Mentori Associates" sales strategy is to proactively sell a portfolio of premium speakers to companies around the world where the speakers claim to fame meets with the company’s current hot topics and burning issues. Included amongst this portfolio are Prof Joseph Stiglitz, climate change guru Lord Nicholas Stern and global entrepreneur Julie Meyer. Acknowledged as outstanding keynote speakers who deliver added value views and opinions to business executives they are known as “ keynote speakers” but their opinions and views will also be sought in the form of workshops, seminars, or as a strategic mentor or consultant to advisory boards. Tier Two is our focus on five key business sectors and where we work on exclusive briefs, assisting our clients in building a profile of the keynote speaker that will fit with their event objectives. Included in the five sectors are Banks and Finance, IT and Telecomms, Pharma, Oil Gas and Energy and Transport and Travel. Although we work with certain speakers proactively our extensive research and worldwide contacts provide us with the privilege of being able to recruit keynote speakers from a broad range of the world’s foremost communicators. Tier three is focused on working with conference and event organisors around the world where we can bring our extensive knowledge and research to their needs when searching for keynote speakers. The Internet allows an easy access to identifying speakers but there can be no substitute for a factual evaluation of a speakers communication skills and ability to address a brief and that is the benefit we bring to our conference and event customers." ![]() |