CSP Summit 2026
Innovate & Scale
The CSP Summit 2026 is an exclusive gathering of Certified Speaking Professionals who are ready to innovate boldly and scale intentionally.
In today’s evolving landscape, speaking mastery is no longer just about stage excellence — it’s about building intellectual property, expanding influence, and creating sustainable growth beyond your physical presence.
This year’s theme, Innovate & Scale, invites you to rethink how you create value, multiply income streams, and position yourself for long-term global impact.
Featured Speakers:
David Lim, CSP, Global Speaking Fellow, APSS Hall of Fame
SCALING: Your “Not-There” Income
David will take you on a deep dive into how products enhance and amplify your income, message and expertise. Learn the pyramid of products; which are suitable for your specific journey needs and how licensing works in practice and how this product can set you up for greater success
Bio:
David excels in helping people believe they can be more than just ordinary.
and is best known for leading the 1st Singapore Everest Expedition in 1998. He has delivered unforgettable presentations on leadership and bouncing back from setbacks in 34 countries since 1999. David averaged 40 paid presentations/ a year keynotes for a decade. Clients include Google, Merck, Linkedin, World Bank, Pfizer, and Walmart. Since becoming financially free, David has helped experts who speak and train do better through his Everest Speakers Academy business, with special focus on negotiating skills
Robin Speculand, APSS Hall of Fame
Building Your International Market
The foundation of expanding into international markets lies not in aggressive sales tactics.
It’s in cultivating genuine partnerships built on trust and expert delivery. When you demonstrate excellence in every interaction and consistently exceed participant expectations, you create advocates who champion your work across borders. This keynote explores how positioning yourself as a trusted expert becomes your most powerful marketing tool in the global marketplace.
Success in international expansion requires understanding that your reputation travels faster than any advertisement (and is less expensive!). By focusing on delivering exceptional value and earning high marks from every engagement, you establish credibility that opens doors to collaborations. The speakers who thrive internationally are those who prioritize relationships and meaningful partnerships over quick wins.
What Attendees Will Gain:
- How to create opportunities in new markets.
- Understand how to build your international business through partnerships.
- Gain practical strategies for delivering compelling experiences so that participants become your best referral sources.
- Leave with a concrete action plan for launching or expanding your international presence within the next.
Bio:
Robin Speculand is an implementation specialist in strategy, digital, and AI. He supports C-suite and boards in transforming their organizations. Robin is a global keynote speaker and faculty member at leading business schools, including Harvard. He is the bestselling author of World’s Best Bank and Implement. Robin is a board advisor, has been nominated for Thinkers50, and is an ambassador for the Peter Drucker Forum. His work has been featured on the BBC and CNN.
Dixie Maria Carlton, CSP
Using Books and Content to Generate Consistent Leads for Speakers
Many speakers write books hoping they will lead to more speaking opportunities, clients, and visibility — yet too often the book becomes little more than a business card.
In this keynote, Dixie Maria Carlton CSP reveals how to turn books and content into a strategic lead-generation engine that attracts opportunities long after the book is written.
This session moves beyond “write a book” thinking and instead shows how publishing can become the centrepiece of a speaker’s visibility and business development strategy.
Audience Takeaways
- Why most speaker books fail to generate leads — and how to avoid it
- How to turn a book into a speaking and marketing ecosystem
- The Book-to-Business Pipeline that converts readers into clients
- How frameworks, models, and intellectual property amplify your authority
- Practical ways to leverage content across media, stages, and partnerships
Ideal for professional speakers, consultants, experts, and thought leaders who want to turn their knowledge into a scalable platform.
Bio:
Dixie Maria Carlton CSP is a publishing strategist, international professional speaker, and founder of Indie Experts Publishing. She specialises in helping experts transform their knowledge into influential books and high-leverage content that drives business growth.
Over a publishing career spanning more than two decades, Dixie has supported more than 300 authors and written 25 books of her own, including Authority Island, Start with the Draft, and From Idea to Author-ity®.
Known for her practical frameworks such as the Authority Flywheel™ and the Tri-Variant Framework™ Dixie teaches leaders, speakers, and organisations how to turn ideas into intellectual property, visibility, and commercial opportunity.
Dixie works internationally with entrepreneurs, corporate experts, and professional speakers who want to move from “having expertise” to becoming recognised authorities in their field.
Tiffany Markman
3 Copywriting Secrets To Get You Booked: A Workshop
Sometimes speakers feel like we’ve already thought of everything. Like our intellectual vault has been entirely plundered. Like there’s nothing new under the sun. As an experienced speaker, have you ever wondered whether your next keynote idea will be as strong as your last one?
Tiffany Markman’s Micro-Targeting Methodology offers a practical system for developing stronger keynote concepts, sharper positioning and more compelling thought leadership, based on three copywriting secrets for cutting through the noise and attracting the right attention. Note: She doesn’t run this workshop publicly and almost never offers it to speaker communities, so make sure you don’t miss it.
Bio
A multi-award-winning international copywriter, Tiffany Markman has spent 21 years generating ideas, angles and hooks for campaigns, brands and thought leaders. Ranked as one of the Top 50 Female Content Marketers in the World, Africa’s Copywriter of the Year and Southern Africa’s Most Effective Business Writer, Tiffany Markman has worked for 717 companies in 16 countries and trained 36000 people so far.
Organised by Cynthia Zhai, CSP
This is not just another event.
It’s a strategic room for those serious about building what’s next.
Innovate. Scale. Lead.
