Leadership motivational speakers have become a standalone industry! According to Marketdata Enterprises, in the year 2006, this so-called industry had raked in $9.6 billion from a lowly $5.7 billion in 2000, a straightway jump of 68%! That is staggering, to say the least, and one naturally would like to know the secret of such phenomenal growth. It is also observed that motivational speakers are surely and certainly breaking all boundaries of age, qualification and experience needed to become one. Senior bureaucrats, military personnel, voluntarily retired business executives and even teenagers as young as sixteen years have become successful leadership motivational speakers. Almost anyone who has the power of demagogy can, it seems, become a motivational speaker. This makes the scenario even more complicated and tad confusing and one becomes more eager to break the code of what actually is necessary to become a successful communicator. The common thread that seems to unify all these motivators is possibly an ability to praise the audience. All of them have a common refrain that exhorts the audience with a powerful message that they can indeed make their dreams come alive; each member of the audience has that power in them to make it really happen. This powerful message of reassurance, coming from a person with a lot of halo and glamour at that, does indeed have a significant impact on the listeners, so much so that they are even willing to shell out substantial amounts simply to listen to these gifted leadership motivational speakers have a go at them.