Are you interested in hiring Brad Smart to speak at your event, conference, trade show, meeting, or convention?
As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
On this page you can contact Brad Smart’s speaker booking agency to learn more about his speaking fees and availability.
A booking agent will respond to you within two business hours to let you know if they are available and how much they cost.
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Brad Smart is an experienced recruitment and hiring professional with extensive expertise in building high-performing teams. With over 20 years of experience, he has achieved success in building effective recruiting strategies that have attracted top talent to organizations around the world. Brad has successfully led teams for some of the most well-respected global enterprises, including such notable firms as Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle.
He has contributed to their growth by managing the recruitment process and selecting, vetting and onboarding the right people to ensure the best fit for each role. His successful career is the result of his ability to develop strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders while fostering a positive and motivated work environment. As an industry leader in recruitment and hiring, Brad Smart helps organizations attract, select and retain top-tier talent.
Brad Smart earned his doctorate in Industrial Psychology from Purdue University before entering the consulting industry. He has been in private business for more than 25 years as the President of Smart & Associates, Inc., which is situated in the Chicago metropolitan area. Brad is generally referred to be the world’s foremost specialist in the field of recruitment. To date, he has done over 6,500 in-depth interviews with senior leaders.
He is the author of 7 books and videos, the most recent of which is Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Retaining the Best People (the world’s best-selling book on hiring since 1999, out of 1400 books on the subject), The Smart Interviewer, Smart Parenting: How to Raise Happy, Can-Do Children (co-author with Dr. Kate Smart Mursau, 2006 release), and Selection Interviewing: A Management Psychologist’s Recommended Approach are some of the books that Smart has written or co-authored.
Brad has assisted corporations in the process of upgrading by analyzing and coaching teams, giving Topgrading® workshops, and offering books, handbooks, and videos to customers to assist them in the process of upgrading themselves. The resulting gains in firm performance have been covered on the cover of The Wall Street Journal, in numerous Fortune stories, as well as on CNN and other television networks.
Brad developed the Topgrading methodology that resulted in more than 80 percent of A-Players being employed, allowing General Electric to become the most valuable corporation in the world, as a result of his efforts.
Brad Smart has done over 6,500 in-depth interviews with executives and is widely regarded as the world’s greatest specialist in the recruitment of high achievers. He has received numerous awards for his work. Brad’s methods and advising have helped hundreds of firms hire high performers who account for more than 80% of their workforce.
Having more than $70 billion in assets, Topgrading is critical to our initiatives, which have resulted in earnings that would not have been feasible if not for the use of Topgrading.
Brad is a compelling speaker that engages audiences with exciting genuine anecdotes and leaves them with all three of the Topgrading “secrets” that they can put to action right now to begin recruiting significantly more qualified candidates. It is he who has taught hundreds of CEOs from the Global 1000 and thousands of entrepreneurs how to select almost all great performers, and he can teach your managers the same thing.
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Brad Smart’s speaking fees can vary depending on the type of event you are producing and where it is located.
His speaking fee can also vary depending on whether you need them to deliver a live or virtual presentation.
Please note we do not work with organizations looking for speakers to speak for free, do podcasts or interviews, or do non-paid charity work.
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