Diversity Guidelines

As members of the National Speakers Association, we recognize that our membership is comprised of diverse individuals and we support and uphold the following premises and practices:

• We embrace inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness in relating to our membership, clients, audience members and meeting planning partners. 
  
• Within our membership and during our meetings, we openly respect the similarities and differences among us. 
  
• Our membership and leadership recruitment efforts seek out diverse levels of expertise, ethnicity, creed, lifestyle and physical capability so the ranks of our Association will reflect the diversity of the audiences we address, on and off the platform. 
  
• Just as we invite our members to exercise their unique skills and individual topic areas, we invite individual expression of business and personal philosophy, marketing strategies, lifestyle and practice of personal faith. 
  
• Individually and as a group, we openly respect the cultural diversity of our national and international audiences through our attitude, language and conduct on and off the platform.