Dental Speaking Business
Learn how to find dental meetings, get booked, get paid, navigate sponsorships, and understand how the business of dental speaking really works
• Two 90-minute LIVE online sessions • November 4, 2026 • November 18, 2026
Why Choose Rare Bird Speaker?
Learn the Business From Inside the Industry
Rare Bird Speakers works at the intersection of speakers, meeting planners, and dental companies. We see what happens behind the scenes—from how speakers are discovered and selected to how fees are negotiated, sponsorships are secured, and opportunities ultimately become bookings.
Booked & Paid brings that real-world perspective into the classroom. You'll learn how the dental speaking industry actually works, not just how it looks from the stage.
Who Is This Training For?
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Aspiring speakers
who want to understand the dental speaking industry before trying to build a business in it.
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Emerging speakers
who are ready to move beyond occasional presentations and begin finding and pursuing opportunities strategically.
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Established speakers
who want a stronger understanding of prospecting, fees, negotiations, sponsorships, corporate relationships, and the business behind their speaking career.
Booked & Paid: The Business of Dental Speaking
Not speaker training. Speaker business.
Learning how to develop a course and become an effective presenter is important. That's why Rare Bird offers separate speaker-development programs focused specifically on those skills.
Booked & Paid is different.
This program focuses on what happens around the presentation: how the dental speaking industry works, where opportunities come from, who makes the decisions, how speakers get booked, how fees are established and negotiated, how sponsorship works, and how speaking becomes a business.
You don't have to be an established speaker to attend.
If you're aspiring to speak, you'll gain an inside look at the industry you're preparing to enter.
If you're already speaking, you'll learn how to navigate the business more strategically.
This program teaches you how the business behind the stage actually works
Whether you're preparing to enter dental speaking or you're already getting booked, you'll gain a practical understanding of the industry—from finding opportunities and approaching decision-makers to negotiating fees, navigating sponsorships, and understanding how the money moves behind a dental speaking engagement.
Two 90-minute LIVE online sessions $497
Find the opportunities. Build the relationships. Get booked & paid.
Session 1: FIND THE STAGE
November 4, 2026 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm EST
How Dental Speaking Opportunities Work, and How to Find Them
Expertise and a great presentation are only part of becoming a professional speaker. You also need to understand where the opportunities are, who makes the decisions, and how to get in front of them.
In this 90-minute live session, we'll pull back the curtain on how the dental meeting industry works. You'll learn where speaking opportunities exist, how meetings find and select speakers, when they make programming decisions, and how to identify and approach the right people.
We'll also cover the business decisions made before a speaker is ever booked—from positioning and fees to evaluating whether an opportunity is worth pursuing.
We'll explore:
Where to find dental speaking opportunities
The different types of dental meetings and organizations that hire speakers
Who actually selects speakers and how to find the right contact
How far in advance meetings book
How meeting planners find and evaluate potential speakers
How and when to reach out
What meeting planners need from you
Speaker fees and how to think about your value
Following up and staying on a planner's radar
What happens between initial interest and a confirmed booking
How to evaluate whether an opportunity makes business sense
You'll leave understanding how to stop waiting to be discovered and start approaching the dental speaking marketplace strategically.
Session 2: GET PAID
November 18, 2026 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm EST
Fees, Sponsorships & How the Money Behind Dental Speaking Really Works
A meeting wants you to speak. Now comes the part most speakers aren't taught:
How does the money actually work?
In this live session, we'll break down the financial side of dental speaking, from honoraria and travel to sponsorships, corporate relationships, contracts, and the different ways an engagement can be funded.
You'll learn why a meeting's stated speaker budget doesn't always tell the whole story, what happens when a meeting can't cover your fee, and how sponsorships and industry relationships can change an opportunity's economics.
We'll explore:
How speakers establish and communicate their fees
Honoraria, all-inclusive fees, travel, and expenses
The different ways dental speakers can be compensated
What to do when a meeting can't afford your fee
Negotiating without immediately discounting your value
How dental speaker sponsorship actually works
Full, partial, and multiple-sponsor arrangements
Building productive relationships with dental companies
What sponsors expect from speakers
Corporate education and KOL opportunities
Contracts, cancellations, invoicing, and payment
Protecting your time, relationships, and business
Looking beyond a single honorarium to the larger business opportunity
You'll leave understanding not only how to get paid to speak, but how the financial ecosystem behind dental speaking really works.
Start your journey today and gain access to:
✔ Both 90-minute recorded sessions
✔ Reflection prompts and assessments
✔ Downloadable templates and resources
Meet Your Instructor
Kelly Tanner, PhD, RDH
Know Where to Look. Know Who to Contact.
DENTAL SPEAKING OPPORTUNITY DATABASE
Finding speaking opportunities can take hours of research—identifying dental meetings, tracking down organizations, and figuring out who to contact about speaking opportunities.
The Dental Speaking Opportunity Database gives you a head start.
This curated spreadsheet brings together dental meetings, organizations, study clubs, and professional contacts in one place, giving aspiring and established dental speakers a practical resource for building their own outreach pipeline.
Use the database to identify potential opportunities, research organizations that align with your expertise, and connect with the people involved in selecting speakers.
THE RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN STARTED FOR YOU.
Spend less time searching for opportunities and more time strategically pursuing the ones that make sense for you.
The Dental Speaking Opportunity Database is provided as a research and prospecting resource. Contact information is current to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication and may change. Inclusion does not indicate a relationship with or endorsement by Rare Bird Speakers. Purchase does not guarantee a response, speaking opportunity, sponsorship, or booking.
Dental Speaking Opportunity Database (only)— $495
BOOKED & PAID
The Business of Dental Speaking
Two 90-minute live sessions covering how to find opportunities, get booked, navigate fees and sponsorships, and understand the business behind the stage.
LIVE ONLINE November 4 + 18 7:00–8:30 PM ET
$497
BEST VALUE
BOOKED & PAID + DATABASE
Get the complete Booked & Paid live intensive plus the 2027 Dental Speaking Opportunity Database. Learn how the business works and get a head start on finding the opportunities.
LIVE ONLINE November 4 + 18 7:00–8:30 PM ET
$897
Save $95
DENTAL SPEAKING OPPORTUNITY DATABASE
Find the Opportunities. Start the Conversation.
A curated database of dental meetings, organizations, study clubs, and professional contacts to help you find opportunities and build your speaking pipeline without starting from scratch.
2027 EDITION
$495
Have Questions?
Whatever you'd like to know about this program or anything else, reach out to Rare Bird Speakers. We're happy to help. Email us at info@rarebirdspeakers.com