Care Quality Commission
They’re looking for a Senior Communications and Engagement Officer (Speaker Engagement and Speechwriting) – apply here.
BEIS speechwriter
The UK Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is advertising for a speechwriter. See here.Â
Opportunity in Banking
NatWest Bank is looking for a speechwriter.
On Wednesday 20 January 2021, in conjunction with the European School of Rhetoric, we hosted an event to coincide with Joe Biden’s Inauguration, What do speechwriters do all day?.
Last year Margaret Webster joined the UK Speechwriters’ Guild. I had known Margaret 25 years earlier because we were both members of the Grosvenor Square Speakers in London – part of Toastmasters International – a group that trains people in public speaking.
I was chatting to Margaret during the lockdown and I happened to mention that I always remembered her speech about the zombies, which she made at one of the club meetings. It made a deep impression on me at the time. Read more
1) Meet your peers
On February 13, 2008, I arrived at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC for my first speechwriters’ conference.
Read more1) What exactly does a speechwriter do?Â
The basic principles of speechwriting are simple and obvious.
There’s a story about famous basketball coach John Wooden – a figure who is lauded by managers like Alex Ferguson.
French political rhetoric is supposedly intellectual, grandiose and ‘revolutionary’, while British political rhetoric is pragmatic, prosaic and dry.
Speechwriters write speech. Yet few of us, I’d guess, give much thought to the instrument that brings our words alive: the speaker’s voice.
