MCP Talent is a family-owned talent agency and speakers bureau that has been booking talent for organizations since 1972. The company operates out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and places speakers and entertainers at conferences, annual meetings, association events, fundraisers and campus events across Canada, the United States and further afield.The agency helps event planners find workplace wellbeing speakers for audiences that are running on empty. Absenteeism creeps upward. Good managers hand in notice with no warning. Teams stop saying anything in meetings long before anyone files a complaint. MCP Talent advises planners on which speaker will actually reach a room in that condition rather than simply forwarding a roster and stepping back. That advice covers topic fit, session length, audience size, budget range, and how the presentation fits alongside everything else on the agenda. The team negotiates fees, manages contracting on the client's behalf, coordinates travel, and arranges a briefing call so the material reflects what the organization is dealing with.
"Planners come to us after a wellness week that nobody showed up for," said a spokesperson for MCP Talent. "By that point, the worry is not really the budget. It is that staff have stopped believing anything will change. A speaker who has lived it can shift that in 50 minutes because the room hears a person, not another policy update. We spend a lot of time on the match. Getting it wrong costs far more than the fee ever did."
MCP Talent started when a Saskatoon musician kept fielding calls from people looking for good bands and began matching them up. The roster grew over five decades to include business speakers, comedians, athletes, celebrities, emcees and musical acts. Talent booked through the agency has performed in every Canadian province and every American state, as well as in Belgium, England, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. Booking through the bureau costs no more than approaching a speaker directly, since the commission is deducted from the standard fee.
About MCP Talent
MCP Talent is a Canadian talent agency and speakers bureau that has been operating since 1972. The company works with corporations, associations, universities, municipalities, charities and government groups, and can connect planners with a mental health speaker suited to the audience and the budget. Visit https://www.mcptalent.com/ for more information.