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Farah Perelmuter

After graduating from the University of Western Ontario in 1991, and completing an intensive marketing program at the Institute of Communications and Advertising, Farah, CEO & CO-FOUNDER of SPEAKERS' SPOTLIGHT started her career in the advertising industry. In 1995, she took a deep breath and a major plunge into the biggest risk of her life. Yes, she married Martin Perelmuter (but was pretty sure that would work out), and together, they quit their jobs and started their own business, Speakers’ Spotlight. The adventure began.

 
Due to the fabulous team at Speakers’ Spotlight, the business has grown beyond Farah’s expectations. Today, they have offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. The agency has been selected by Profit Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in Canada and is listed in PROFIT 100, Canada's authoritative ranking of high-growth companies. Profit Magazine has also ranked Farah as one of Canada's Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs for the last seven consecutive years. She is listed in Canada’s Who’s Who and has been nominated for various awards including ‘A Woman Who Makes A Difference’ by Toronto Life Fashion, Business Development Bank of Canada's ‘Young Entrepreneur Award’, the "Top Forty Under Forty" Award, the PCMA ‘Spirit Award’ and Chatelaine Magazine nominated her for the ‘Rotman Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award’. In 2008, Farah was selected as one of "Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100" through the Women's Executive Network. For the 2nd consecutive year, Farah and Martin Perelmuter have been named finalists for the Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur Of The Year Award’. In 2009 The Women’s Post named Farah one of Canada’s Top 20 Women of the Year.

 
Farah and Martin believe that as entrepreneurs, they have an obligation not only to their clients, speakers, employees and suppliers, but also to the communities in which they work and live, as well as the developing world. They have helped countless charities since their first year in business. For the last 3 consecutive years, The International Association of Speakers Bureaus' awarded Speakers’ Spotlight with the ‘Community Service Award’ for their incredible contribution to helping children around the world. Speakers’ Spotlight has also partnered with Free the Children and adopted a village in the Masai Mara region of rural Kenya, where many children live in extreme poverty and their families face significant life challenges. Through the annual Speakers’ Spotlight Showcases, they have been able to raise enough money to build a schoolhouse, pay a teacher's wages, buy all the textbooks needed for the school, furnish the school, and build a well to provide much needed clean water to the community. Most recently they raised enough money to purchase a lunch program to feed their students for nearly two years. This will provide incentive to parents to send their children to school. Aside from the funds raised, Speakers’ Spotlight also send “their kids” over $200,000.00 worth of medical supplies. In 2008, Speakers’ Spotlight partnered Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to an entrepreneur in the developing world. To date, over 2,500 entrepreneurs around the world have been helped by Speakers’ Spotlight. Most recently, Speakers' Spotlight partnered with Pathways to Education Canada, a charitable organization created to reduce poverty and its effects by lowering the high school dropout rate and increasing access to post-secondary education among disadvantaged youth in Canada. Together they created the Speakers' Spotlight Scholarship Fund to help students graduate from high school, and enable them to continue their post-secondary education. And this is just the beginning...
 
Farah has been featured numerous times in media worldwide, and has twice been featured on the covers of national magazines. Her opinions have been quoted in various business books including in the first Canadian edition of Contemporary Business Communication, a college and university textbook published by Houghton Mifflin Company. She is on the board of the Upper Canada Chapter of YPO (Young Presidents Association.

 
Farah enjoys running the business with Martin, but for this couple, the most rewarding time is spent being Mommy and Daddy to their children, Jade and Cole.

 

Read Farah's Blog Entry: 
Happy 80th Birthday Peter C. Newman! Oh What A Night...

What It Would Be Like To Run Speakers’ Spotlight While Raising Children (… and Staying Sane)

Work/Life BALANCE: The Dreaded “B” Word - (And Seven Ways Towards Achieving It)

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Conference Speakers

The Impact of a Speech Can Last Forever

1. Speakers' Spotlight represents a talented roster of some of the world's most extraordinary conference speakers. Our conference speakers' experience is as broad as it is deep, and they are all leaders in their fields, which include business, politics, sports, the media, academia, science, technology, culture and entertainment. Our conference speakers are thought-provoking and action-oriented and leave their audiences, whether speaking to a group of 10, 100, 1000 or more, enlightened and inspired.

Speakers' Spotlight's conference speakers frequently go the extra mile to be in touch with meeting planners - or even CEOs and presidents of companies and organizations themselves - in advance of their talks in order to tailor the message and hit on key points specific to the client's needs. Our conference speakers arrive on time, and will have conferred with you in advance to ensure they have everything they need in order to deliver an impactful speech. Our conference speakers frequently use well designed visuals, such as photos, slide shows, or video clips to bring other elements of interest into their talks, and our conference speakers frequently build-in time during their talks to allow for an audience Q&A, ensuring your staff has a chance to ask questions of the particular conference speaker they have just heard.

Some of our conference speakers in high demand include David Chilton, Bruce Croxon, General Rick Hillier, Clara Hughes, Ron James, Amanda Lang, Stephen Lewis, Patricia Lovett-Reid, Mark Kielburger, Kevin O'Leary, Jeff Rubin, and Margaret Trudeau.

Speakers' Spotlight is committed to serving the diverse needs of the corporations, organizations, companies, non-profit and government groups that contact us when seeking conference speakers, and we work hard to find the conference speakers that will best meet and exceed your needs. Whatever you require are when it comes to conference speakers, Speakers' Spotlight will work had to ensure that you get the conference speakers that are right for you.

Keynote Speakers

Speakers' Spotlight: The Key Ingredient To Finding Your Perfect Speakers

Speakers' Spotlight represents a vast roster of some of the world's most extraordinary keynote speakers in fields such as business, politics, sports, the media, academia, science, technology, culture and entertainment. Our keynote speakers run the gauntlet from spoken word poet Sarah Kay, to business guru Simon Sinek; from young athlete Olympic athlete Adam van Koeverden to the wrongly incarcerated former boxer Ruben Carter; from Margaret Trudeau to her son Justin Trudeau. Whatever your needs are for your keynote speakers, Speakers' Spotlight the keynote speakers that will fill them.

Our keynote speakers can adjust their talks to suit your needs, whether you're looking for an address by keynote speakers of 15, 30, or 45 minutes or more, our keynote speakers will confer with you before your engagement to ensure that their talks meet your needs. Our keynote speakers frequently adjust their speeches to include important talking points your organization or company needs emphasized, and will also often adjust content so it is individually tailored to your audience. For instance, if your audience is primarily those in the auto industry, our keynote speakers will draw on anecdotes from that industry in order to ensure their speech is relatable. Our keynote speakers are usually available in the days and weeks prior to your event to discuss your needs and go over any details (such as audio visual requirements) that arise.

Speakers' Spotlight is committed to meeting the different needs of the corporations, organizations, companies, non-profit and government groups that contact us when seeking keynote speakers, and we work hard to find the keynote speakers that will provide the best match for your event. Whatever you require are when it comes to keynote speakers, Speakers' Spotlight will work had to ensure that you get the keynote speakers that are right for you.

Motivational Speakers

Motivating the world

Speakers' Spotlight represents a wide variety of motivational speakers who present energetic talks that will inspire leaders and employees to take action, be it in their personal lives, their workplace, or both. Speakers' Spotlight's motivational speakers address everything from encouraging audiences to adapt healthy lifestyles to unifying groups to achieve professional goals. Our motivational speakers work with an astonishing range of companies in sectors such as science, technology, finance, advertising, and manufacturing, as well as professional organizations, cultural institutions, and non-profit entities and government, throughout North American and around the world.

Motivational speakers that work with Speakers' Spotlight frequently go the extra mile to be in touch with meeting planners - or even CEOs and presidents of companies and organizations themselves - in advance of their talks in order to tailor the message and hit on key points specific to the client's needs. Our motivational speakers arrive on time, work with the client in advance to ensure the proper set up of their audio/visual needs so that everything will go smoothly when they hit the stage, and often include Q&A sessions in their talks so that your staff can ask any questions of our motivational speakers that they may wish.

Using Speakers' Spotlight to book your motivational speakers obviously offers many advantages. You reap the benefits of our experience and expertise, as we can help you select the best motivational speakers for your motivational speakers' engagement.

Our motivational speakers include prominent motivational speakers - and many of them household names -- such as Roberta Bondar, Michael "Pinball" Clemons, Terry Evanshen, Scott Harrison, John Izzo, Simon Jackson, Craig Kielburger, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Simon Sinek, Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Brett Wilson.

Whatever your needs are when it comes to motivational speakers, Speakers' Spotlight has the motivational speakers that will both meet -- and exceed -- your expectations.