A small, vetted group program for professional speakers to grow their platforms and bookings. In the Green Room, we build our paid speaking flywheels together.
Go from sporadic → systematized. Don’t “get paid to speak.” Build a speaking business.
This room is a fit if you bring genuine expertise and a history of audience and/or revenue traction, and now you’re charging (or should be charging) $10k → $20k fees.
Created and hosted by Jay Acunzo.
“Jay’s a practitioner, not a consultant. He’s got frameworks and lessons from years of speaking professionally and helping some of the best in the business, but his advice is not one-size-fits-all. Whether you’re prepping for your first keynote or you’ve given hundreds, Jay will make you better.”
—Simone Stolzoff (TED main stage speaker, bestselling author of The Good Enough Job and How to Not Know; writer for The Atlantic + The New York Times*)*
⚠️ The next small group is forming now. Apply at the bottom of the page.
Revenue-centric by design: The right work in the right order to drive results
In this industry, there are lots of misconceptions and even some bad actors which can pull your focus (and dollars) towards things that don’t actually move the needle. In the Green Room, we work on what actually matters to driving leads and bookings and actually matters for our ideas to have a greater impact in the world.
We stay close to how clients actually book speakers [here’s the research…]
We work “inside-out” to prioritize how revenue actually happens [click for more]
Shared language to simplify the work: Remember “TPNS”
Because of the sheer volume of stuff we could discuss and do as speakers (in general and in the Green Room), we make things easier to understand and navigate: we categorize the work into 4 pillars of a successful speaker business.
While YOU will focus on the specific things under a given pillar based on your own specifics, ALL of us are consistently working on all 4 of these pillars:
This is an invite- and application-only group. It’s small by design, and Jay personally vets every member. Everyone admitted has a clear point of view, a real body of work, and an emerging or refined signature idea—as well as the kind of career history that makes them interesting and useful to others in the room.
What we share isn't a topic or an industry. It's a standard.
Everyone in The Green Room…
That’s what we have in common. What differs person to person — and what makes the room even more valuable — is everything else, like business models, industries, life experiences, personal perspectives, and the specific shapes of our speeches and speaking journeys.
We are diverse enough to challenge each other, aligned enough to trust each other.
Your annual membership includes:
*These are good ideas suggested by members which we’ve thought about too and plan to implement soon. We have strong networks and wish to make them more useful and accessible to you, saving you time in meeting or hiring the right people (concierge connections) and learning from the genius of others (guest expert sessions and Q&As).
About our retreats [2 per year]
Join us in-person to do the work that’s hardest to do alone and most powerful to do together: strengthening your signature talk from the stage, capturing video you can use, and getting clarity on foundational business needs and next steps.
📹 A videographer is covered by the Green Room, present to film your stage time + more.
👉 Attendance is encouraged but not required. There are no refunds for missing retreats. Every member’s annual fee covers 2 total retreats across 1 calendar year of membership.
✈️ We provide suggestions for travel and lodging, but those are not covered.
🥃 Meals and bar tabs are covered by us, and while we arrive to retreats ready to work hard, we also want to eat, drink, and swap ideas and stories … as one does inside any green room!
All memberships are for 1 year.
Not sure it’s the right fit for you? Email [email protected]
Priced for easy ROI:
If The Green Room helps you win 1-2 gigs you wouldn't have otherwise won at your rate — or set/raise your fee to what you should be capturing — the program pays for itself.
Then consider the additional gigs you will win, the other leads for other offerings you will generate, and the compounding results you’ll get from the work + the network.
If this sounds like your room, apply below.