Cheryl Janis Agency is a boutique speaker representation agency for authors, educators, advocates, attorneys, and expert voices whose work opens important conversations.
We build the credibility, professional infrastructure, trusted relationships, and long-term opportunity ecosystem speakers need to reach aligned audiences and move toward stronger, higher-value engagements.
Thoughtful voices. Meaningful opportunities.
The Roster
Each speaker brings a distinct body of work, lived experience, and point of view. What connects them is a capacity to help audiences enter important subjects with greater understanding, humanity, and courage.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER · JOURNALIST · PEAK PERFORMANCE EXPERT
13-time Emmy-winning journalist and former Good Morning America correspondent Elisabeth Leamy helps leaders and teams conquer priority overload. Through The TRIoritize Technique™, she gives audiences a practical way to identify what matters most — and protect their best effort for the work that deserves it.
Meet Elisabeth
Criminal Defense Attorney & Legal Educator
Helping attorneys navigate difficult client relationships, reduce escalation, preserve professional boundaries, and build a more effective and sustainable legal practice.
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Speaker, Educator & Dialogue Facilitator
Through deeply personal storytelling and dialogue across profound divides, Tamara explores how inherited history, trauma, and extremism can be transformed into courage, connection, and meaningful change.
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Author · Award-Winning Journalist · Speaker · Public Educator
From Jim Crow Birmingham to Israel and a life across worlds, Len Cooper shares a deeply personal story of survival, belonging, human dignity, and unexpected possibility.
View Len’s ProfileRepresentation with Purpose
They are reached through clarity, credibility, timing, trusted relationships, and consistent follow-through.
We selectively represent speakers over time—identifying aligned opportunities, building relationships with organizers and institutions, developing thoughtful outreach, supporting inquiries and fee conversations, and helping move appropriate engagements toward booking.
The goal is not simply one appearance. It is a sustainable ecosystem of opportunities, relationships, repeat invitations, referrals, and growing credibility.
Behind the Agency
Together, Cheryl and Philip work closely with an intentionally small number of clients, combining outward-facing representation with thoughtful strategy and development behind the scenes.
Founder & Speaker Representative
Cheryl leads the outward-facing work of representation—researching markets and opportunities, building relationships with organizers and institutions, conducting thoughtful outreach and follow-up, and helping aligned opportunities move toward booking.
Director of Speaker Strategy & Development
Philip brings more than a decade of work in positioning, point-of-view development, audience strategy, research, and lead generation to his work with speakers. He leads onboarding, strategic interviews, speaker development, and coaching—helping clients sharpen what they want to say, who it matters to, and how their expertise is understood.
The Infrastructure Behind the Opportunity
When an opportunity appears, a speaker needs to be immediately understandable, credible, and easy to book.
We assess and strengthen the professional infrastructure around the speaker—positioning, topics, website, speaker materials, press materials, media assets, inquiry pathways, and outreach tools—so the work can be presented clearly when the right opportunity appears. When substantial new asset development is needed beyond the representation engagement, we identify that separately.
Opportunity research, organizer relationships, strategic outreach, follow-up, inquiry support, and booking development.
Clear language that helps organizers understand the speaker’s authority, relevance, audience, and value.
Websites, speaker profiles, booking decks, biographies, media kits, press materials, and organizer resources—assessing what is already working and identifying what needs to be strengthened or developed.
Long-term development of repeat, referral, timely, and adjacent opportunities rather than reliance on isolated bookings.
Curious what it is like to work together? Read “Are We a Good Fit?”
Whether you are planning an event or building the next stage of your own speaking work, tell us what you are hoping to create.
