Who We Are The Leigh Bureau is a premium speakers bureau serving business and sophisticated cultural audiences worldwide. We exclusively represent some of the world's most prominent leaders and personalities in a wide range of fields: business and economics, politics and public life, science and technology, entertainment and the arts. We specialise in speakers of substance — people who are thought leaders in their fields who offer the best in platform performance and valuable content. Our History The Leigh Bureau is the longest-established premium speakers bureau in the world. The business was founded in 1929 by W. Colston Leigh, the father of our current chairman, Bill Leigh. Since then, we have represented some of the world’s top speakers and public personages, such as Boris Yeltsin and Eleanor Roosevelt before she was even First Lady. We’ve also helped to shape the industry itself over the decades and we have made significant contributions to the wider culture. We led the way into the business speaking market in the early 1980s, representing Peter Drucker throughout his long career and Alvin Toffler from before he published Future Shock. This continues to be our distinguishing strength — that we represent speakers who bring real business value to the organizations they address and the best analysis, insight and commentary to audiences in the public sphere. Our Businesses The Leigh Bureau is the flagship firm of the Leigh Group, which includes five related enterprises. Three are speakers bureaus that have been separately formed to better serve the global speaking market. The Leigh Bureau serves audiences in North America. Leigh Bureau Limited serves Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. Leigh Bureau International serves Latin America, Asia and other parts of the globe. In addition to the speakers bureaus, we also have a literary agency (LeighCo) and an advisory services company, Leigh Advisory Services.