Speaker
Keynotes that don't just fire people up. They change how your audience communicates.
Keynotes for every kind of speaker.
nervous speakers.
we've seen them allAsk a room of leaders if they're good public speakers, and watch the eye contact disappear.
That's not a skills gap, it's an identity question. Answer it well, and the skills follow fast.
We've all seen amazing keynote speakers. They're engaging, inspiring, and they leave the whole room buzzing. But then Monday comes and nobody can point to one thing that they do differently. It wasn't a waste of time, but people don't actually change their behaviour.
Why offer your audience inspiration when you can offer them new skills, results, AND
inspiration? There is nothing like watching a great speaker pull back the curtain on exactly how they're doing what they're doing - while they're doing it.
One goes deep on the pillar that decides everything. One covers the whole system. Both leave the room different than we found it.
Mindset. It's the pillar that decides whether the other three ever show up. This talk rewires how your audience thinks about nerves, identity, and getting better, so the confidence lasts long after the room.
Best for: opening and closing keynotes, leadership summits, sales kickoffsSee the talk Keynote 02 · The Four Pillar SpeakerWant to tackle every piece of the public speaking pie?Content, Delivery, Visuals, Mindset. One usable upgrade for each pillar, demoed live on stage, so every person leaves with four things they will actually do differently on Monday morning.
Best for: team offsites, internal summits, conference breakouts, customer eventsSee the talknot sure? let's figure it out together
Public speaking isn't a skill. It's a category of skills - and nobody masters a category with tips. This keynote rewires the question from how do I get better? to who am I when I speak?
Then it shows the room exactly how the best speakers on earth keep getting better long after everyone else stops trying.
eric, mid-sentence. as usual.
A new answer to "what kind of speaker am I?" - the shift that makes speaking something they look forward to, not something they get through.
A simple improvement loop they can run after every meeting, pitch, and all-hands. Forever.
Proof that confidence is a byproduct of behaviours, not a set of strategies they need to learn.
Our signature 4-Pillar Public Speaking System, compressed into a keynote. Every pillar gets one idea the room can use the next morning - and a live demo of what it looks like when they do.
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Open a blank deck and start typing bullets. Talk for twenty minutes. Hope a point emerges.
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Lead with the point. Then tell the one story that proves it. The bullet-point approach is dead.
"what you say"One volume. One pace. One gear. Even the loud ones are monotone.
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Vary on purpose. Volume, pace, silence. Delivery is a decision you make, not a talent you were born with.
"how you say it"Read their slides to the room. Forty words per slide. The audience reads ahead and tunes out.
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Treat every word on a slide as an object competing for attention. Fewer objects, more attention.
"slides that don't suck"Wait to feel confident before they volunteer. Spoiler: the feeling never shows up first.
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Do the behaviour first. Confidence is a byproduct, not a prerequisite. Thousands have presented with us. Zero deaths.
"comfort and confidence"Most keynote speakers give the same talk in every city. We'd rather give the one that could only have been written for your room.
We use your acronyms, your examples, your inside jokes. Not ours.
A sales kickoff needs a different talk than a leadership offsite. So it gets one.
We'll know who's in the room before the room knows us. Every time.
Every keynote starts with a call about your audience. Then we build the version of the talk that only makes sense for them.no recycled decks. ever.
"The fact that you knew all our names at the start of the workshop still blows my mind!"
Ontario Power Generation
"If you want to understand how to effectively communicate and get your point across at an expert level - these folks are the best to get you to that point. And believe me - no matter who you are - they can get you there."
Motus"I have attended many conferences and workshops throughout my career, this by far is the best. It kept my attention, it was enjoyable, and I walked away with valuable information that is easy to apply."
Nelnet"The best training and personal development opportunity that I have had in years - perhaps ever."
Ontario Power Generationthese are just a few!
See a decade of feedback data →Eric and Eli were hired to teach at 22, worked in tech, and have spent ten years turning terrified presenters into people who get promoted for how they talk.
The one with the hair. Eric has stood in front of thousands of people who would rather have been anywhere else, and sent them home wanting the mic. Former business school professor, former tech guy, current Survivor podcaster.
He headlines most Speaker Labs keynotes solo.
Eli wrote the 4-Pillar Public Speaking System and the workshops we run. He was voted top professor. He was teaching accounting. He had never taken accounting.
Book the duo and you get the full two-speaker show.
One of us or both of us. Either way you get a founder on your stage, never a trainer who covers your region.we don't have a bench. we are the bench.
Tell us what you're planning. We'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit - and what it costs.
Everything your team needs to promote the talk, paste-ready. Copy what you need.
Eric Silverberg is the co-founder of Speaker Labs, a Toronto public speaking training company trusted by teams at Shopify, Google, RBC, TD, and Uber. A former business school professor hired to teach at 22, Eric has spent ten years turning nervous presenters into confident ones - and still runs a Survivor podcast on the side.
Eli Gladstone is the co-founder of Speaker Labs and the author of its 4-Pillar Public Speaking System, the method behind every program the company runs for teams at Shopify, Google, RBC, TD, and Uber. Hired to teach at a business school at 22, he was voted top professor while teaching accounting, a subject he had never studied. Since 2016 he has co-facilitated over 1,000 workshops and built a reputation for making complicated things sound obvious.
Eric Silverberg and Eli Gladstone are the co-founders of Speaker Labs, a Toronto-based public speaking training company they have built together since 2016. Both were hired as business school professors at 22, both worked in tech, and both personally facilitate every program Speaker Labs delivers - over 1,000 workshops for teams at companies like Shopify, Google, RBC, TD, Wealthsimple, Uber, and TEDx. Their signature 4-Pillar Public Speaking System covers Content, Delivery, Visuals, and Mindset, and their programs hold a 95 NPS and a 9.4/10 average rating across thousands of responses. On stage, Eric and Eli are known for keynotes that are equal parts funny and useful, and for leaving audiences with a different answer to the question "what kind of speaker am I?"
Our next speaker has a strange claim to fame: thousands of people have stood up and presented in his programs, and so far, zero deaths. He is the co-founder of Speaker Labs, a company that has trained teams at Shopify, Google, RBC, and Uber to stop giving boring presentations. He was a business school professor at 22, he has a podcast about Survivor, and he is about to change the way you answer one question: what kind of speaker are you? Please welcome Eric Silverberg.
Booking the duo? Swap the last line for "Please welcome Eric Silverberg and Eli Gladstone."
Right-click to save. All shot on a real stage, not in a studio.
