Hi there!
If you are clicking through to this page, you are exclusively representing the event host / end buyer in a possible appearance booking for Aimee Mullins (or maybe just curious about how we work with broker entities on appearances for Aimee Mullins).  In either case, welcome. We know this isn’t the most fun stuff to review, but is essential due to the lack of regulation in the speaker booking industry, and the wide variability in business models for those booking talent for event hosts. By receiving these terms at the outset of our possible working relationship on this booking, you agree, on behalf of yourself, your booking entity, your colleagues at the entity (full or part time contractors +/or employees), and any other booking entities owned, controlled, or professionally linked around handling inquiries from event hosts, in whole or in part, by or with your booking entity, that the provided details here and in our email correspondence will be fully honored and enforced by any and all such individuals and entities on any and all negotiations and/or confirmed bookings involving New Leaf exclusive clients.

Phew.

To avoid misunderstandings and ensure all booking entities and event hosts are treated fairly, ethically, and with integrity for any appearance involving Aimee Mullins, we’ve written up the terms below.

  • New Leaf is not a speaker bureau, talent agency, or a management company.  It operates as a private, in-house, personal speaking agent and wholly independent contractor for benefit of Mullins Studio, Inc. and as a fiduciary for Mullins Studio, Inc’s financial interests in all its work for Aimee Mullins.
  • New Leaf directly handles all paid speaking inquiries, negotiations, and calendar management for Aimee Mullins — direct inquiries as well as brokered ones. All roads lead to Rome.
  • New Leaf provides all gross fees and sets the broker commission.
  • All booking contracts for paid appearances handled by New Leaf are signed directly by Mullins Studio Inc.
  • All monies due for paid appearances for Mullins Studio, Inc. on those signed contracts go to Mullins Studio Inc. and must equal the amounts outlined in the signed agreement without any withholding.
  • If mandatory advance withholding is required by law for the jurisdiction of the event  it must be disclosed at the outset of any negotiations and on or before the receipt of any firm offer.  This allows Aimee to consider the immediate net effect on take-home earnings before reaching a signed agreement to appear at the event.  We would need full details on the entity(ies) and laws requiring the mandatory advance withholding, the exact financial impact on Aimee’s received monies, and how it was calculated.  Aimee’s entity is fully responsible for filing and remittance of all taxes required by law on the monies it receives under the agreement.  If mandatory advance withholding does apply to any signed agreement, Aimee’s entity must be provided with the official written documentation of all submitted payments, any/all required tax documents related to the mandatory advance withholding to allow Aimee’s entity to timely file accurate and complete tax return(s) and substantiate the amount(s) paid in mandatory advance withholding.  Any and all refunds due on mandatory advance withholding for Aimee’s appearance are due and payable to Aimee’s entity and must not be retained or claimed by the entity that remitted the payment(s) as additional compensation or earnings on the appearance.
We will not contact your event host client about a booking you reach out to us first on, and, specifically, we will not attempt to convert a brokered booking you first inquired with us about a direct booking to avoid payment of commission.  If your event host client reaches out to us directly, to ask about any element of the signed agreement in place, or financials involved, we will answer them truthfully, copying you on all communications, and we will point them back to you for negotiation and communication. We operate in this fashion so the event host/ end buyer knows we are committed to transparency around their hosting of Aimee Mullins.

If the event host has previously contacted us about this appearance, or a prior occurrence of this same event, we will alert you immediately. 
In that case, we must handle the booking directly, and no broker commission will be paid in this case.

The only exception: If you proactively and specifically suggested our exclusive speaker client to your event host for a specific appearance, in writing, before the event host indicated an interest in our client for that specific appearance, New Leaf wants to ensure you are treated fairly.  We strongly encourage all booking entities to alert us immediately and proactively when they are specifically recommending Aimee Mullins for a possible appearance so we can place a soft, non-binding hold on the calendar AND redirect the event host back to that entity for negotiations if they approach us directly after that.

If you did proactively pitch Aimee to your event host for a specific appearance, as outlined above, and you think they are now bypassing you and reaching out to us to try to get a better financial deal:
RUN don’t WALK to provide us with the full email(s), showing date/time stamps, and containing your proactive suggestion that the host consider our speaker for this specific event as written proof ASAP.  Time is of the essence because we need to ensure we have that intel prior to reaching a finalized deal for the appearance.  This allows Aimee to factor that your commission into her understanding of her net earnings on the event PRIOR to contractually obligating herself to the financials agreed with the event host.  If all such parameters are met, we will treat the finalized booking, if any results, as a commissionable referral.  Mullins Studio Inc. would directly remit a 5% commission on the gross speaking fee to your entity after the appearance monies are earned.

Any information New Leaf receives regarding any possible appearance for Aimee Mullins will be shared with Aimee Mullins in full, and all negotiations for any appearance will be conducted with full transparency to Aimee Mullins.
Aimee’s fully executed agreements with any entity claiming to exclusively represent the event host / end buyer in any appearance deal are not confidential for the event host / end buyer involved.  The agreement(s) or the information they contain can be provided in whole or in part to the event host / end buyer at the sole discretion of Aimee Mullins or New Leaf if the event host / end buyer has questions about the deal.  This policy around the deal serves as reassurance to all event hosts booking Aimee Mullins that they are being treated fairly and transparently.

If additions to the scope of an appearance are required by the Host, New Leaf must have direct correspondence and possibly direct conversation between the booking entity exclusively representing the event host / end buyer,  possibly the event host / end buyer, too.  Aimee Mullins may also need to be involved, at New Leaf’s discretion, to ensure New Leaf fully understands what is needed from Aimee Mullins to successfully deliver on the contractual obligations being outlined before offering a gross fee for the changes.

Examples of such additions include, but are not limited to:  a compressed timeline for creation of the keynote, ​mandatory keynote content review session(s) with the event host / end buyer, bookings confirmed with a signed contract within eight (8) weeks of the appearance (ie: short notice bookings), bookings that require significant rearrangement of existing contractual or personal commitments to accommodate the appearance, request from the event host / end buyer for a full travel buyout number, non-consecutive contractual obligations, shortened or lengthened keynote duration, custom integration with the Host’s event theme, exclusivity guarantee for a period of time / geographic area / ​specific competitors, etc, multiple venues for contractual obligations, ​extensive transit time needed between the speaker’s arrival airport and the contractual obligations, additional required activities beyond a 30 min VIP meet and greet, etc.
The commission rate on any additions that result in an increase in gross appearance fee would be commissioned to the booking entity at the same rate outlined in our email correspondence.
We know this is A LOT to take in.  We also know how essential it is that you understand and agree to these parameters.  We know our provision of these details is highly unusual, but we have been BURNED badly in the past….and it was awful.  Event hosts were overcharged by A LOT and our speakers were misled about what the event hosts were offering for their services.  Ughhhh……  We do not want a repeat and we want to work with entities that are as committed to ethics, fair dealing, honesty, transparency, and reasonable compensation as we are.  If not, we do not want to do business together.  The sooner we find out if we are on the same page, the better. Your time is precious and so is ours.

Click HERE to learn what led us to create these specific terms.