An operator, not a professional speaker. Randolph Scott Bell holds six active Florida licenses and built six divisions from nothing — he speaks about what he did, what it cost, and what he'd do differently. Available across Palm Beach County and Florida, in English, Danish, or German.
Most speakers on a construction, real-estate, or small-business agenda are consultants who study the industry. Randolph Scott Bell is in it this week. He earned a B.Sc. in Engineering from Aalborg University in Denmark and built his early career in the Danish energy industry — waste-to-energy and biomass boiler systems, heat-pump and ventilation product development, and equipment for the insulation industry — in a country where energy is treated as an engineering discipline rather than a monthly bill. He is fluent in English, Danish, and German. Then he came home to Palm Beach County to apply energy engineering to Florida homes.
The building instinct runs in the family. The Bell family's Palm Beach construction pedigree spans decades and more than 1,200 homes — including nearly $20 million of renovation work on President Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion. BeacCorp Property Management was founded in February 2007 and is a BBB A+ Accredited Business; the work has been featured in the Town-Crier. What began as one company managing property is now six divisions — construction and roofing, property management, land clearing, the farm, the food truck, and real estate — run out of one office.
That mix is the reason to put him in front of a room: he can talk margin and he can talk mechanical systems, and he has signed the front of the paycheck for both. The full consulting and advisory practice sits behind the speaking, so an audience question doesn't run out of runway at the edge of a slide deck.
1 · The fit call. Fifteen minutes on the phone: who's in the room, what the event is trying to accomplish, and the date. If the material isn't right for that audience, you'll hear it on this call rather than after the invoice. Referrals to a better-suited speaker are free.
2 · The audience brief. A short written brief — roles and seniority in the room, headcount, what they were told they'd get, the two or three sore subjects, and what the previous year's speaker got wrong. This is the document that makes customization real instead of a promise; a talk shaped around a brief lands differently than a stock deck with your logo on slide one.
3 · Agreement and logistics. Scope, date, fee, travel, recording rights, and cancellation terms in writing before anything is announced. Ask for the AV list at this stage, not the week of — technical surprises are where event budgets quietly inflate.
4 · Build and run-of-show. Material customized against the brief, then a short call with whoever is running the room to lock the introduction, the timing signal, the Q&A mechanic, and what happens if the agenda slips — because it will.
5 · After the room empties. A written takeaway your attendees can keep, the offer to answer follow-up questions directly by phone for a period after the event, and a debrief with you on what worked. Recording and photography are permitted by agreement; ask up front if you want to reuse the footage.
There is no price list on this page, because a 45-minute keynote for a chamber breakfast and a half-day workshop for a contractor association three hours away are not the same purchase. Call (561) 779-3213 or send the event details and you'll get one number and an honest read on whether it's worth it. The factors that move that number are simple and worth knowing before you ask any speaker for a quote:
Time on site, not time on stage. One keynote and a day of keynote-plus-breakout-plus-board-session cost differently, but the second is far better value per dollar because the travel is already spent. If you want a meet-and-greet, a workshop, a panel seat, or a recorded interview, bundle it into the same ask.
Travel and dates. Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast are drive-time and simple. Farther afield adds travel and a night. Local, off-peak, and weekday dates are the least expensive way to book anyone.
Customization depth. Reshaping material around your brief is included. Building something genuinely new — a session on a topic outside the five bodies of material above, or a workshop against your own documents — is more work and is priced as such.
Rights. Delivering the talk to your room and licensing a recording your organization can publish afterward are two different things. Decide which you want before you contract.
Use this on every speaker you're considering, including this one. Booking the wrong keynote is one of the most visible mistakes an event can make, and almost all of it is preventable in one phone call.
1. What outcome should the room leave with — and can you say it in one sentence? A speaker who answers with topics instead of an outcome hasn't thought about your event yet.
2. Have you spoken to an audience like this one? Not the same industry — the same role and seniority. Owners, employees, and volunteer board members need three different talks.
3. What will you actually customize, and what do you need from me to do it? "Fully customized" with no request for a brief means a stock deck.
4. Can I watch fifteen unbroken minutes of you in front of a live room? A sizzle reel is edited applause. Fifteen straight minutes shows whether they can hold a room that isn't warmed up.
5. What's the total cost — fee, travel, AV, and rider — and what's excluded? Get it in one written figure with the exclusions listed.
6. What else will you do while you're on site? Meet-and-greets, a breakout, a podcast recording, a book signing, a panel seat. The travel is already paid for; use it.
7. What are your technical requirements? Anything beyond a mic, a screen, and a cable belongs in the budget conversation early.
8. May we record, stream, and reuse it? Ask before you announce a livestream.
9. What happens if you or we cancel, or the date moves? Reschedule terms matter enormously in a state that loses event dates to hurricanes.
10. May I call a client whose audience resembled mine — and ask them whether anything changed afterward? The last half of that question is the one that separates a good hour from a useful one.
The audience, the date, and what the event is trying to accomplish. You'll get a straight answer on fit, availability, and cost — including "I'm not the right speaker for this," when that's the truth.
Call (561) 779-3213 or send the event details through the booking form on the consulting page with your audience, date, and goal. The first step is a fifteen-minute fit call rather than a proposal — if the material is not right for that room, you will hear it on that call. Expect a response within 24 hours on fit, availability, and cost.
It is quoted per engagement, because a 45-minute keynote for a local chamber and a half-day workshop several hours away are different purchases. Four things move the number: total time on site rather than time on stage, travel and the date, how much new material the brief requires, and whether you want rights to a recording. Call (561) 779-3213 and you will get one figure with the exclusions listed rather than a range that moves later.
Five bodies of material: building and scaling a licensed trades business across multiple divisions; energy efficiency and storm resilience in Florida housing from an energy engineer's perspective; what a general contractor sees in a real-estate deal that others do not price; HOA and condominium work from both the manager's and the contractor's side of the table; and the trades as a career path for students. Any of them is reshaped around your audience brief before the date.
A keynote runs 45 to 60 minutes with 10 to 15 minutes held for questions. Also available: half-day workshops built around real documents and capped at about 25 people, 30 to 45 minute fireside or panel appearances, 45 to 75 minute technical breakouts, and closed two to three hour board or leadership retreat sessions. Combining several into one on-site day is usually the best value, since the travel is already spent.
Yes, and it requires something from you: a short written brief covering the roles and seniority in the room, headcount, what attendees were told they would get, the two or three sore subjects, and what a previous speaker got wrong. Customization built on a brief changes the examples, the numbers, and the call to action. Any speaker who promises full customization without asking for a brief is describing a stock deck.
Short by design: a lavalier or over-ear microphone preferred so both hands stay free, 16:9 projection with HDMI at the lectern, a confidence or downstage monitor if the layout allows, house lights up on the audience where possible, and 45 minutes on site beforehand for a mic check. Slides are photographs and numbers from real jobs rather than text to be read, so the talk survives a projector failure. No green-room requirements and no rider extras.
Yes. Randolph is fluent in English, Danish, and German, and can deliver the material in any of the three without an interpreter. That matters for Scandinavian and German trade delegations, international property and investment audiences, and Florida's substantial European buyer market, where an interpreted talk loses timing and nuance.
Palm Beach County is home, and West Palm Beach, Wellington, Jupiter, Boca Raton, and the Treasure Coast are simple drive-time dates. Elsewhere in Florida and beyond is considered for the right engagement, with travel and a night added to the quote. Local, weekday, and off-peak dates are the least expensive way to book any speaker.
By agreement, yes — but settle it before you announce a livestream. Delivering a talk to your room and licensing a recording your organization can publish afterward are two different transactions, and the second is worth putting in writing alongside the fee, the date, and the cancellation terms.
Reschedule terms go in the agreement up front, because Florida events lose dates to storms every season. Ask any speaker you are considering the same question, and get the answer in writing — a verbal understanding about a postponement is worth very little the week a storm is in the forecast and your venue is calling.
A working contractor who speaks. He holds six active Florida licenses — including Certified General Contractor CGC1528750 and Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1332751 — and runs six operating divisions. The practical consequence for your event is that audience questions do not run out of runway at the edge of the deck, and the examples come from jobs that closed rather than case studies that were read.
No. The talk is the deliverable, and a room that feels sold to stops listening. Credentials get stated once because they are why the material is credible, and the rest of the time goes to the audience's problem. If you want attendees to be able to follow up, the better mechanism is a written takeaway and an open phone number rather than a pitch slide.