4× Award Winner 2026
“When speakers and audiences truly connect, their eyes shine with purpose.”
Louise Medve, Founder & CEO, SpeakELITE.
Recognised, 2026
CEO Monthly | AIG Global Media
About Louise
When Louise walks on stage, the energy shifts. Her warmth and charisma are electric, and everyone in the room feels it. Audiences leave inspired, engaged and ready to act immediately.
From boardrooms to global stages, Louise champions experts and leaders who move people. She believes human connection is the most powerful force on any stage, and every speaker deserves to be paid their true value.
"I had the pleasure of listening to Louise share her growth journey recently to a room full of entrepreneurs - she inspired us, she motivated us - and she left us in awe of what she's achieved as she shared her experiences with humour, energy, confidence and warmth, and with a genuine desire to help everyone in the room. Louise is a powerhouse speaker who really connects with her audience and is an asset on any stage."
Jo Swann, The PR Expert for Female Founders & EntrepreneursSignature Talks
Event organisers, audiences and decision-makers decide whether a speaker is worth booking again within the first ten seconds of watching them, long before the content itself lands. That decision isn't made on talent. It's made on positioning, presence and trust: the signals that tell a room "this person is worth listening to."
In this talk, Louise breaks down exactly what happens in those ten seconds, and gives audiences a repeatable framework for winning trust instantly, captivating a room from the first word, and becoming the obvious choice, not just once, but every time.
What You'll Walk Away With
Talent alone has never been what gets a speaker booked, represented or paid. Bureaus, event organisers and audiences don't take a chance on promise: they book proof. And proof isn't something you claim. It's something you build, one paid appearance, one visible result, one track record at a time.
This talk shows audiences how to turn quiet expertise into undeniable, demonstrable authority, so they're no longer hoping to be chosen but positioned to be chosen first.
What You'll Walk Away With
Most experts have spent decades building real knowledge and results, yet stay invisible on the stages where that expertise could be having its biggest impact. The gap isn't ability. It's positioning: the difference between someone who simply talks about their expertise, and a speaker audiences actively seek out, remember and pay to hear.
Louise shows audiences how to close that gap: elevating hard-won expertise and experience into real impact, influence and income on every stage they step onto.
What You'll Walk Away With
Nobody hands you a manual for the years when everything happens at once: raising daughters into women while somehow still being their mother, loving a husband who occasionally needs managing like a third child, travelling the world solo across five continents (tents on the beach to five-star hotels, safaris to coral reefs), watching the calendar quietly tick past fifty, and building her own business (and her clients' businesses, across the globe) through every single curveball. Life doesn't ask permission before it throws one at you. It just throws it, and expects you to catch it, laughing, in heels.
In this talk, Louise shares the real, funny, joyfully honest story of getting knocked down by life again and again, and getting back up every single time with more clarity, more confidence and more fire than before. It's the talk that turns every curveball in the room into fuel, and proves once and for all that fifty isn't a finish line. It's the starting gun.
What You'll Walk Away With
What Event Organisers Say
"From the moment Louise stepped on stage, the whole room leaned in. She has a rare mix of warmth and authority, and she was completely honest about what it takes to get paid to speak. If you're an event organiser, book her. People leave her talks energised, confident and with a clear plan they can act on straight away."
Nick James
CEO & Founder, Speaker, Investor, Expert Empires
"I had the pleasure of hearing Louise Medve speak as part of a panel to a small workshop group of around 12 people. In such an intimate setting, you get a good sense of whether someone can genuinely connect with an audience, and Louise certainly could."
Eve S.
Author, Speaker, Coach
"Louise spoke so eloquently and confidently, her personality really shone through. She engaged with her audience beautifully and provided genuinely useful tips on paid speaking and business, sharing what has worked well for her and what she's implemented that others can use too."
Estel J.
Founder, Speaker, Hair & Skin Visionary
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