Challenge the system: Revolutionize an existing business model

📌 Key facts

🙏  Revolutionize Speaking Business: The existing business model of speaker mediation is based on numerous manual processes and has become outdated, especially since the onset of the Corona pandemic. Therefore, we are looking for additional scaling and monetization ideas. The previous focal topics such as marketing and sales are being questioned – the business model should be rethought and possibly automated using AI.

• When: Start anytime. Applications are open!
• How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV, a grade report, a short motivation and your suggested approach (proposed plan and questions, potential data, and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline).

• 📌 Key facts
• 💡 Background
• 🦾Who We Are
• 🎯 Goals
• 🎓 Profile
• 📝 How to Apply

💡 Background

In the current agency model, speakers are charged a so-called listing fee, and a commission is charged to the clients upon successful mediation. In the booking process, clients either search directly for the respective speaker or require extensive consultation. The conversion rate needs to be improved.

The process is elaborate: Customer inquiry → Consultation → Quote creation → Inquiry with the speaker → Getting to know each other → Confirmation of the offer by the clients → Confirmation of the offer by the speaker → Invoicing (speaker to 1ST ROW & 1ST ROW to clients).

🦾Who We Are

The WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION was founded in 2012 with the purpose of providing visibility to women in business. As Europe's first and leading agency exclusively representing female keynote speakers, our mission remains the same. Even over a decade later, there are still numerous line-ups without female speakers or with an imbalanced representation.

At the WOMEN SPEAKER FOUNDATION, we strive to make the many qualified female experts visible, aiming to achieve gender parity on stages, in the business world, and especially in leadership positions. Our goal is to promote and empower women to take on influential roles and share their expertise on various platforms, thus creating a more inclusive and diverse landscape in business and society.

🎯 Goals

A new, innovative, scalable, and monetizable business model - one that benefits both - women and us, as their agency and makes the agency business marketable. We want to completely renew the business model and increase the market value.

🎓 Profile

We value receiving new unbiased ideas. Therefore, no profile requirements or prior knowledge are necessary. Knowledge about desiging business plans and interest in new tools (AI) would be helpful.

📝 How to Apply

If you are interested, please contact Isabell Welpe and Regina Mehler by submitting your CV, a grade report, a short motivation and your suggested research approach.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

👉 Isabell Welpe: welpe@tum.de

👉 Regina Mehler: rmehler@1st-row.de