Book Charles

Pick an open date, tell us about your event and get a quote right away. You can accept it, offer a counter or decline. Charles or Mark Williams confirms every booking personally.

Press, TV, radio or podcast? Use the Media and Appearance Scheduler™ instead. News interviews are free.

1. Describe your event
2. Pick a date and time
3. Accept, counter or decline
4. Charles or Mark confirms

1. Describe your event

What do you need Charles for?

In person or virtual?

Type of organization

Event city Country

A second session the same day, for the same host?

Session length

Expected audience

Your name Organization Email Phone (optional)

Tell us about the event: name, theme, audience, what you hope people take away

2. Pick a date and time

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Open Partly open Not available Your pick

Live from the Media and Appearance Scheduler, the calendar Charles’s interviews and talks share, for the next two months. Times show in your time zone (Africa/Johannesburg). Further out? Email book@charlesbelk.com.

3. Your quote

Date: not picked yet

Keynote (in person) base fee$2,500

Speaking fee$2,500

TravelExtra, estimated after review

Fee before travel$2,500

To continue, add a date and start time, the event city, the country, your name, your organization and a valid email.

How this quote is worked out Fees follow Charles’s published rules: keynote $2,500 in person or $1,000 virtual; panelist $1,000 or $500; moderator $1,500 or $750; workshop $3,500 or $1,500 for a half day and $5,500 or $2,500 for a full day. Less than 7 days’ notice adds 40%; less than 3 days adds 60%. A second session for the same host on the same day adds 25%, 50% or 75%. Events outside the U.S. are adjusted for the local cost of living. Travel for in-person events is extra: coach airfare (a buyout), a standard hotel and meals at the U.S. government per diem rate. Mark sends the travel estimate with the confirmation. Paying After approval: e-sign the contract, then pay a 50% deposit to lock the date and the balance 14 days before the event. Card, ACH bank transfer, wire, or invoice/PO for schools and governments. Travel can be prepaid by you or reimbursed.

Book Charles

1. Describe your event

2. Pick a date and time

Book Charles

1. Describe your event

2. Pick a date and time

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