Experience: Vickie K Sullivan is President of Sullivan Speaker Services, Inc in Tempe, Arizona. She is nationally recognized as the top market strategist for experts on the professional speaking circuit. She speaks throughout the U.S. and Canada about speaker selection trends in high-fee markets and strategies that position experts for those venues. Her market intelligence updates are distributed to experts in the US as well as 17 other countries. Sullivan has served twice on the editorial board for Professional Speaker Magazine, and her articles about the speaking market have been published in other publications such as Presentations and the Handbook of Business Strategy. She has also been quoted in mainstream media such as Fortune.com, New York Times and Investor’s Business Daily. Sullivan’s volunteer activities include selecting speakers for an international conference, serving on boards for industry associations, and being a mentor for teenage girls at Camp CEO in summer 2004. The first in her family to graduate from college, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism, with a Public Relations emphasis.