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Spangler Inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame – Council of Peers Award of Excellence CPAE

If you’re a professional speaker, being inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame® is kind of like getting an Academy Award… without the cool golden Oscar… but you get the idea. The National Speakers Association (NSA), the leading organization for professional speakers, inducted five professional speakers into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame at the 2010 NSA Convention in Orlando, Florida, and I’m honored to have received one of the awards. To date, there are 196 Speaker Hall of Fame inductees throughout the world, and the list includes Ken Blanchard, Norman Vincent Peale, Ronald Reagan, and Zig Ziglar.

Established in 1977, the Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE) is a lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism given to speakers who have been evaluated by their peers and judged to have mastered seven categories: material, style, experience, delivery, image, professionalism and communication. The award is not based on celebrity status, number of speeches, amount of income or involvement in NSA. It’s an award presented by your peers… and that’s why it’s so special to me. As you can
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Certified Speaking Professional – Spangler Earns His CSP from the National Speakers Association

I remember attending my first National Speakers Association (NSA) convention in 2000 and being blown away by the wealth of talent and expertise in one place. The National Speakers Association (NSA) is the leading organization for professional speakers… in the world. The opening general session on Sunday morning featured the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) Ceremony, a special award presented to NSA members who had achieved a certain level or distinction in their professional speaking career. As a brand new member of NSA, I was so intrigued to learn more about what these people had accomplished. In all honesty, I was sitting in the audience thinking, “I wonder if I could do that?” That was five years ago.

Today I walked across the stage to receive my own CSP designation… and it took five years of work to get it! Like any other designation, the CSP is a badge or indicator in the speaking profession that an individual measures up to a standard set by a trusted authority.

My good friend Brad Montgomery, CSP
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