It covers essential key concepts for your speaking business including:

• The right to take a deposit and to set out your payment structure up front. We would always recommend taking a non-refundable deposit and requiring the remaining payment in advance of the event;
• The right to revise your fees if the scope of the arrangement changes Including the target audience or the way the client wishes to use your materials;
• That you retain any background intellectual property that you bring to the arrangement as well as the materials that you create for the event. The terms provide a licence to the client to use these materials only for the ways set out in the agreement and no more. This is important to protect your valuable proprietary materials;
• As a speaker your reputation and your content Is everything – as such, the contract also gives you the ability to choose to allow the client to record you and if you do allow this, you can clearly stipulate how those recordings may be used. E.g. no client you cannot reproduce my entire talk on YouTube but yes, I will allow you to share it internally with your staff for training purposes.
• The ability for the client to terminate, and the consequences of that – e.g. that you retain payment if certain notice is not provided;
• An ability for you to cancel and work with the client to either reschedule or find an alternative speaker. In such cases your liability Is limited to returning the fees;
• That all promotional materials referencing you will need pre-approval from you (again this is to protect your reputation and brand!);
• A section dealing with your liability under the Agreement.
• A right for both parties to have any confidential information protected from mis-use.