Exclusive Speaker Management
Connecting speakers with audiences who believe SUCCESS must coexist with AUTHENTICITY and HUMANITY.
Our speakers are flawed. Perfectly imperfect. Confidently vulnerable. We are masterfully real change-makers with HUGE IDEAS about how to be strong and powerful on the inside while walking the earth lightly. We believe in humanity, kindness, and in making you feel aliver than alive!
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Event Professionals
See what it's like to work with an agency that helps you seamlessly deliver world-class talent and unforgettable experiences.
Bureau Partners
How we've partnered with bureaus since 2016 to ensure their clients' expectations are met and exceeded every time.
Skilled. Expert. Professional.
Owner and talent manager, Shelley Kelly, has been a driver of innovation in event marketing, branding, and project management excellence since the early 90s when she built and grew one of the largest, most energized marketing agencies in the Triangle Region of North Carolina. Today, she is reinventing the speaker management space with her talents and is the first management agency to integrate strategic AI tools and technologies that help our community stay relevant in a fast-changing world. A few ways we're different:
1. Empower speakers to refine big ideas for timeliness and relevance today.
2. Assist event professionals in identifying and delivering content to meet the greatest needs of their audiences today.
3. Create automations and efficiencies throughout planning, contracting, pre-event, at-event, and post-event to streamline processes.
In a $6B industry with thousands of speakers and events, it's harder than ever for speakers to stand out and for events to keep raising the bar year after year.
Learn more about how we're reimagining speaker management and utilizing proprietary methodologies to quickly bridge the gap between transformative speakers and unforgettable event experiences.
Stats
- 7 years in business
- Hundreds of keynotes booked
- Thousands of books sold
- Hundred of films licensed
- Dozens of masterclasses and workshops sold
- Millions in fees earned
- MILLIONS OF LIVES CHANGED!
...and that's why we do what we do!
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Meet the Team
Shelley Kelly
Storytelling, engaging, and connecting people is at the heart of everything Shelley does in her work. She applies her nearly 30 years in sales, marketing, business development, brand messaging, and finding solutions where they aren't apparent. She's a visionary and empowers her team, clients, partners, and speaker to see possibilities to break from tradition and create unforgettable, life-changing experiences for people around the world.
Enzo Carasso
Sarah Haroon
Sarah's our smooth operator. Taking care of the daily proactive communications, schedules, event details, follow-ups, logistics, A/V, and everything in between to ensure our clients, partners and speakers are looped in through the process and on the same page. She streamlines internal procedures with automations ensuring efficient workflows and responsiveness from start to finish.
"We've had an amazing experience working with Engage Your Stage! Shelley is by far the most efficient, organized and thoughtful detail guru ever, but still maintaining that warm, human touch to all her correspondence. The whole experience has felt more like working with a good friend than a new colleague! She has fantastic follow up and is always anticipating her clients needs ahead of time. Love working with her!!