Careful research. Honest pitches.
The founder behind Stage Backer, and the principles behind every pitch our team writes.
Joshua Jeremiah
Joshua Jeremiah is the founder of Stage Backer. He is based in Africa and works with speakers in the United States and beyond. He believes careful research and a pitch written for each event do more than a high volume of emails.
Joshua leads Stage Backer and works with a small team. For each speaker, they find paid events that fit, write a pitch for every one and follow up, and they are honest about what an event pays, including when it does not say. The speaker stays in control, setting their own fee, signing their own contracts and owning every organiser relationship.
"One right stage can change a speaker's year. Finding it deserves real care."
Four principles.
These guide every event we research and every pitch we write.
Homework first
Every event and its audience is studied before a single word of the pitch is written.
Honest about pay
Unpaid and pay-to-speak events are left out. If pay isn't published, we say so.
Quality over volume
One pitch written for the event beats a hundred copied ones.
You stay in control
Your fee, your contracts, your relationships. Always.
Let's find your next stage.
Tell us about your talk and the rooms you want to be in.