About Us
Why MidAmerica Speakers Bureau?We have the expertise and experience to provide high-impact speakers, presenters, and entertainers to organizations across the nation.
About Us
Business You Can Trust
Tyler Carlson
Owner & Booking Agent
Tyler Carlson was raised in Central City, Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. After seven years of working in the insurance services industry, he joined MSB in 2014 as the Speech Coordinator, and is now the Owner and Booking Agent.
In November 2014, Tyler married his beautiful wife, Mandy, who grew up in Curtis, Nebraska, and is now a successful Nurse Practitioner with CHI Health. They have a daughter who was born in June 2016, a son who was born in March 2020, and currently reside in Central City, Nebraska.

Barry Carlson
Founder (Retired)
Barry Carlson resides in Central City, Nebraska. He attended Wayne State College where he played four years of baseball. Following college, he taught and coached for eight years before entering the financial services business in 1979. In sales, recruiting, and management, Barry and his agency won nearly every award the company had to offer over a 34-year career.
In 2010, he founded MidAmerica Speakers Bureau (MSB), which books numerous speakers, presenters, and entertainers throughout the country. Barry himself has been a speaker for 40 years and in that time he’s seen the best of the best and the worst of the worst. His goal for MSB was to build an organization that puts quality speakers, fast, friendly communications, and trustworthiness with both speakers and meeting professionals above all else. If you talk with MSB speakers, and meeting professionals who have booked through MSB, you will find that goal has certainly been accomplished and continues to be their focus each and every day. Take some time to read our Client and Speaker Testimonials and you will see what we mean!

Our Mission
Our mission at MidAmerica Speakers Bureau is to provide high-impact speakers, presenters, and entertainers to organizations across the nation. We are committed to helping fulfill their needs while working within their budgets. We strongly believe our speakers help change people’s lives and we are humbled and proud to be a part of it. Above all else, we believe that honesty, integrity, and dependability will ultimately lead to a mutual relationship based on TRUST, and in the world of business, nothing is more important.