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Speaker experience survey template

Make speakers want to come back, by asking how you looked after them

Three questions for your speakers after the event: a rating for the briefing, the tech check, the room setup and support on the day, whether they would speak again and what next year's speakers should know. Use it as it is or change any question, and Usertick reads every written answer for you.

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What this event speaker survey tells you

An event speaker survey asks the people on your stage how you looked after them, from the first briefing to the walk-off. This template takes about a minute: one rating grid for four parts of the speaker experience, a yes or no on speaking again and one open question with advice for next year's speakers. A short survey gives speakers an easy way to say what happened backstage without writing a complaint.

It is written for an email to your speakers after the event, sent by Usertick to a speaker contact list. The same template also runs as a link in your own thank-you email, so it can come from the person who managed the speakers. Answers sent through Usertick email are tied to each speaker's contact, so you know who said what and can follow up.

Every written answer is read as it arrives and filed under a category such as sessions and speakers or venue and rooms, with a type and an urgency, and each response gets a customer risk reading. Results draws a heat map of the four ratings with their averages and shows the share who would speak again.

In an emailAs a linkOn your websiteAs a conversation
Questions
3
Time to answer
About a minute
Written for
After the event, by email to every speaker
Plans
Every plan, the free plan included

See it on every channel

The same template on your website, behind a link, in an email and as a conversation.

In an email

Send it from Usertick to a contact list, and a button in the email opens the survey on its own page. Usertick sends 50 emails a month on the free plan, or connect your own sender.

The 3 questions, one by one

What each question asks, why it is there, what it shows you and what to change.

Question 1 of 3 · Matrix · Optional

How would you rate the following?

Why ask it
A speaker's day depends on four handoffs you control: the briefing, the tech check, the room and the help on the day. Rating them apart shows which handoff failed.
What you learn
A heat map with a row for each part and its average, so a good briefing with a poor audio setup stands out across all speakers at once. Select a low rating on a row to read what those speakers advised.
Make it yours
Add rows for what you offered, such as travel booking or a green room, and remove the tech check if you didn't run one.
Question 2 of 3 · Yes / No

Would you speak at our event again?

Why ask it
Good speakers are invited to many events. Whether they would come back to yours is the clearest sign of how the day went for them.
What you learn
The share that said yes, compared with the period before. Select No to read those speakers' ratings and comments together. Over time, the share shows whether changes to the briefing or the tech check kept more speakers.
Make it yours
Call every speaker who said no before you open next year's call for speakers.
Question 3 of 3 · Text · Optional

What should we tell next year's speakers?

Why ask it
Speakers give practical advice when it is for the next person, such as where the loading door is or how the confidence monitor works, and the answers double as an honest list of what went wrong.
What you learn
Each answer with its sentiment and theme, filterable by theme, with up to 8 themes and their trends. Usertick marks each as an idea, a complaint or praise.
Make it yours
Copy the most useful answers into next year's speaker briefing, word for word.

What the answers show

Results turns each question into numbers you can follow week by week.

How would you rate the following?

Each row's answers side by side, so the part that needs work stands out.

Every written answer, read for you

Each answer arrives with its category, theme, type and urgency, so the urgent ones reach your team first.

Use this template in four steps

From the template to the first answers.

  1. 1

    Open the template

    Sign up free and pick Speaker experience in the template gallery. It opens in a matching style, ready to change.

  2. 2

    Make the questions yours

    Reword any question, change the options, and add logic or more questions.

  3. 3

    Choose where it runs

    Show it on your website, send it by email, share its link and QR code, or switch it to a conversation.

  4. 4

    Publish and read the answers

    Answers arrive in Results and the inbox as people send them, each written one read and filed by Usertick.

Tips for this survey

Small choices that keep people answering and the answers useful.

  1. 01

    Send it within a week

    Speakers move on to their next event quickly. Send it within a few days, while the room and the tech check are still clear in their minds.

  2. 02

    Send it from the speaker manager

    Set the sender name to the person who managed your speakers and make them the reply-to, so a speaker who replies reaches someone they know.

  3. 03

    Keep speakers apart from attendees

    Ask speakers in their own survey, so their ratings of the setup don't mix with attendee ratings of the same sessions. Their answers about the setup also help the AV and venue teams plan the rooms.

  4. 04

    Follow up on every No

    On every plan, a workflow posts each new response to your team's Slack channel or Microsoft Teams, so someone reaches out to an unhappy speaker the same week.

CSAT surveysEvent surveysEmail surveysSpeaking at the event questions

More satisfaction templates and questions

Templates like this one, and single questions from the library to add to it.

Templates

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CSATPost-eventFind out how attendees rated your webinar, workshop or conference, whether the content and length were right and what to change next time. Send it within a day of the event.
CSATSession feedbackRate each talk or workshop while it's fresh and learn what attendees want more of. Show a QR code on the last slide or send it in the event app.
CSATWebinar feedbackFind out how useful a webinar was, why people joined and what to cover next. Send it with the recording, within a day.
CSATKeynote feedbackRate the keynote and the speaker while it's fresh, and see whether the length worked. Show a QR code on the closing slide.

Questions from the library

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  1. How easy was it to prepare as a speaker?Customer effort · Speaking at the event
  2. How would you rate the speaker briefing?Stars · Speaking at the event
  3. Did the tech check happen before your talk?Yes / No · Speaking at the event
  4. Could you get everywhere you needed at the venue?Yes / No · Access needs
  5. Which access needs did you have?Multiple choice · Access needs
  6. How would you rate the step free routes?Stars · Access needs

Frequently asked questions

Within a week of the event. Speakers still remember the briefing and the tech check, and you can thank them in the same email.

Every speaker, panelist and workshop leader. Import them as a contact list, and send keynote speakers the same survey so all ratings compare.

Session feedback asks attendees to rate a talk. This survey asks speakers how you supported them, so run both to see each side of the same session.

Read their grid ratings and their advice for next year, then call them. A poor tech check or a missing briefing can be fixed before the next event.

The first question is a rating grid, so the email shows a button that opens the survey. Move the yes or no question to the top when you want an answer inside the email.

Yes. Every template comes with every plan, the free plan included, and the free plan covers 150 responses a month across your surveys.

Yes. The template becomes your own survey, so reword any question, add or remove questions, and change the options and the logic. The gallery stays as it is.

Yes, from Starter. The template is written in US English. Add languages by hand or with AI translation, and each person sees the survey in their browser's language.

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