Bob Strange - The Closer

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BOB STRANGE
"THE CLOSER"
Making impactful change happen...one event at a time. Entertainment/Speaker Consultant and corporate event professional with 30 years of experience running venues and live events; consulting with businesses and working with a diverse range of Artists, Keynote Speakers, Politicians, Media Figures, and a wide range of Clients from Multinationals to Associations to Private Clients. Currently servicing and negotiating speaking inquiries for a limited number of select speakers. For the last two decades, I’ve been sourcing Keynote Speakers, Politicians, Comedians and Media Figures for a wide range of Multinationals, Associations and Private Clients. I’ve had the pleasure to work with many speakers and presenters including but not limited to:

Steve Wozniak, Holly Willoughby, Terrence Mauri, James Taylor, Geoff Burch, Matthew Griffin, Penny Mallory, Adrian Webster, Bob Geldoff, John Simpson, John Humphrys, Karim Rashid, Jamie Oliver, Bruce Daisley, Dr Jacqui Taylor, Prof. Paul Krugman, Michael McGrath, Perry McCarthy, Sir Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, Seb Coe, Lucy Adams, Inma Martinez, Jim Lawless, Robin Sieger, Caspar Craven, Sir Chris Hoy, Roger Black, Kriss Akabusi and Sandi Toksvig.

​If my many years of experience would be helpful, I'm available to work on specific briefs, I maintain tremendous access to speakers and I'm able to give advice and source speakers.

27/08/2026

Three months of stories. Some of them even had a point. I've been posting flat out since April. Personal stories, speaker spotlights, The Closer Cut videos, opinions I probably should have kept to myself. At one point I told the internet about ending up naked on stage with a comedian called Martin B...

24/08/2026

Three months ago I pulled back the curtain on 30 years of stories and started telling them on purpose. Not randomly. Deliberately. I'd been posting on LinkedIn the way most people do. A bit of this, a bit of that, whatever felt right on the day. It worked well enough. But I knew there was more in th...

21/08/2026

In 2008 I lost the business, the marriage, and the house. Not in that order. And not gracefully. The banking collapse wiped out my client base overnight. I didn't pivot. I didn't strategise. I stacked shelves in Tesco because the rent doesn't care about your career history. Then I took to the bottle...

18/08/2026

I knew every word before Sam Ryder sang a single note. Jesus Christ Superstar was one of the first albums I ever owned. I wore the grooves out. So when I walked into the London Palladium last night, I wasn't going in cold. I was going in as someone who has lived with that music for decades. Sam Ryde...

14/08/2026

I will be 61 next week and I'm refreshing my follower count like a teenager waiting for likes on a selfie. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A phone call from Dizzy Gillespie's people coming into a Glasgow tenement in 1992. Twenty-four young travel agents waist-deep in a Scottish loch be...

08/08/2026

Episode 2 of The Closer Cut just dropped. This is the series where you get to see my speakers think out loud, unscripted, for longer than a showreel will ever give you. Waseem Mirza sits down with Cortney Harding for this one. Cortney is Emmy-nominated, founder of Friends With Holograms, and right n...

05/08/2026

You booked a comedian for your annual awards. Big name. London venue. Your client's flagship night. You'd done everything right. Then the talent arrived. No hello. No "where's the green room?" Just a look around the room like he'd been sent to the wrong address. I was there that afternoon, working w...

04/08/2026

You can't book a speaker from a bio. A bio tells you credentials. A showreel gives you three minutes of highlights. Neither one tells you how that person thinks, how they handle a room when the energy dips, or what they actually believe about the topic you're hiring them to talk about. That's the pr...

04/08/2026

The brief said riverboat on the Thames. The speaker was Steve Wozniak. I read it twice. I was working as part of Maria Franzoni’s team at the time, before Covid. A private association of entrepreneurs wanted to hold an event in London, on a riverboat, with one of the biggest names in tech on stage...

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