New Zealand speaker bureau

Essential Talent

One of New Zealand's leading keynote agencies, founded by Shaun O'Neill, booking speakers, MCs and comedians across New Zealand and Australia.

Essential Talent at a glance

What it is: Speaker bureau
Based: No address published on its own site
Coverage: National, plus australia and international
Publishes fees: No
Takes new speakers via: General enquiry, no public speaker application form
Last verified: 20 September 2026

Visit the Essential Talent website

What Essential Talent covers

Essential Talent lists 15 speaker categories on its own site:

Leadership
Business
Motivational
Mental Health & Wellbeing
AI & Innovation
Sport
Women in Leadership
Resilience
High Performance
Keynote Speakers
Conference MC
Comedians
Workshop Facilitators
After Dinner Speakers
Panel Moderators

How to get on the Essential Talent roster

There is no public application form. Essential Talent takes new speakers through direct contact, so the approach is an email or enquiry rather than a submission. Have your topics, your fee and on-stage video ready before you make it.

Go to the Essential Talent contact page

What Essential Talent charges

Essential Talent does not publish fees. Every quote is a conversation, so set your budget before you enquire and ask early whether travel and accommodation sit inside or outside the figure.

Alternatives to Essential Talent

New Zealand has 4 organisations of this type. These are the others:

In summary

Essential Talent is a speaker bureau that publishes no address on its own site. Coverage: national, plus Australia and international. It lists 15 speaker categories. Essential Talent does not publish fees, and takes on new speakers via general enquiry, no public speaker application form. Verified on its own website on 20 September 2026. This entry appears in the New Zealand section of Speakers Bureaus Directory, an independent directory where nobody pays to be listed.

This is an independent directory listing, not a page run by Essential Talent. Checked on its own website on 20 September 2026. Something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.