Lecterns

Your presentation, training session, or briefing needs an anchor point, and a lectern is exactly that. It gives you a standalone freestanding speaker stand with a sloped top for notes, so you walk into the room with the platform a speaker actually needs to command attention. Grab one for conferences, classrooms, and meetings where you want to add real formality and structure to how the room reads you. A speaker without a lectern looks like they wandered in; a speaker with one looks like they run the room.

Most lecterns give you a sloped top 18 to 24 inches wide, sitting at a fixed standing height of 42 to 48 inches off the floor. The sloped top angle runs 10 to 15 degrees from horizontal, so your notes stay readable while you stand and speak to the room. Measure your stage or platform area before you order, and you will know exactly how the lectern sits in your room the day it arrives, with no surprises once your speaker steps up to it.

You can grab wood veneer over engineered core for executive and conference venues, HPL for hard-use training rooms, metal for a modern aesthetic, or acrylic for a contemporary minimal look. Match the body material to your venue — the auditorium, the chapel, the boardroom, or the classroom all call for a different look and feel. Pick the wrong material and your lectern clashes with the room; pick the right one and it reads like it was built specifically for the space your speaker walks into.

Yes — grab a lectern with a gooseneck microphone mount at the top edge for amplified presentation, plus an internal sound shelf for your wireless microphone receiver or powered speaker module. That is how you add real audio capability to your room without wires running across your floor and tripping people up during the event. Confirm the sound shelf dimensions against your actual equipment before you order, so everything fits inside without a workaround once your gear shows up on-site.

Grab an LED reading light mounted on a flexible neck above the sloped top of your lectern. The warm-white spectrum, 2700K to 3000K, is the right fit for paper notes and easier on your eyes than cool-white lighting during a long session. The flexible neck lets you aim the light directly at your notes without glaring into the audience seated in front of you. If you present in dim rooms often, this is a small add that makes a real difference every single time you step up to speak.

If your lectern moves between rooms, upgrade to mobile. Mobile lecterns ride on 4 casters, 2 of them locking, and are the right fit for multi-room programs — churches, schools, conference centers — where the lectern travels between venues regularly. Have a buddy ready when you roll a fully-loaded mobile lectern across uneven floors, since the weight adds up fast once accessories are mounted on the body. Lock the casters the moment it is in position so it holds steady through your entire event without drifting.

Grab a water bottle holder, a timer or presenter clock, and a signal light at the lectern body to round out your setup. Match your picks to your event: academic timers for university lectures, signal lights for broadcast and TV, water bottle holders for any speaking engagement running longer than 15 minutes. These small adds keep your speaker comfortable and on schedule without cluttering the room with extra furniture or loose gear scattered across the floor, and they take only minutes to fit onto the lectern body.

A lectern is a standalone speaker stand that stands on its own without extra hardware. A lectern-podium combo adds a raised platform beneath the lectern for elevated speaker positioning, which is the right call for large venues where your speaker needs to be seen above a big audience. For most office and church use, grab the standalone variant — it does the job without the extra footprint and cost of a raised platform you likely do not need in a smaller room or a modest-sized hall.

Commercial lecterns built to the BIFMA testing standard for casegoods duty carry a 10 to 15-year warranty in the industry against consumer-grade lecterns at 1 to 3 years, but you get our Free Lifetime Warranty unless specifically noted. The body, the sloped top, the leg leveling glides or casters, the gooseneck mount, and the sound shelf are all covered under your purchase. That is the kind of backing that lets you buy once and stop thinking about replacement costs for your venue.

For ADA presentation programs, grab a height-adjustable lectern variant that lowers the sloped top to 30 to 34 inches for a wheelchair-accessible standing height. Make sure your venue stage has an ADA-accessible ramp leading up to the lectern position too, since the lectern alone will not solve access if the stage itself is not reachable for your speaker. The standard 42 to 48 inch lectern is not ADA-compliant on its own, so plan the height-adjustable swap before your event, not after guests arrive.