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Our Story

Engage Your Stage is a boutique speaker management and talent agency built around one simple belief: big ideas can change people — when they find the right stage.

Since 2016, we’ve worked alongside speakers, event professionals and bureau partners to create meaningful connections, memorable experiences and opportunities that move people forward.

Engage Your Stage began with one extraordinary story.

In 2016, founder Shelley Kelly began representing keynote speakers Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray following their remarkable 500-mile journey across the Camino de Santiago — Patrick pushing Justin in his wheelchair every step of the way.

What began with one friendship and one powerful message became a business dedicated to helping remarkable people bring meaningful ideas to audiences around the world.

Today, Engage Your Stage provides speaker management, business growth services and event talent solutions with the same philosophy that started it all:

The right message. The right audience. The right stage.

What We Do. How We're Different.

Smooth Operations 
Events have a lot of moving parts. We keep them moving — connecting speakers, bureaus and event professionals so everyone feels informed, prepared and supported from contract to curtain call.

Expect the Unexpected 
We take care of the gritty so you get the glitter. With more than 30 years of marketing and business growth experience behind us, we bring strategic thinking, creative ideas and serious attention to detail to every engagement.

Hundreds of Rodeos 
We know this business. We understand speakers. We understand event professionals. And we understand the relationships that make this industry work.

Consider us the bridge between all three — and your ace in the back pocket. ♠️

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Our Sales & Marketing Machine

MEET SHELLEY KELLY

Shelley Kelly has spent her career seeing potential — in people, ideas and businesses — and helping turn it into performance.

She’s built and sold a marketing agency, advised CEOs and leadership teams on business growth, managed professional speakers, built and booked bands — and stepped onto plenty of stages herself as a speaker, singer, and performer.

Different worlds. Same passion.

Today, Shelley brings more than 30 years of marketing, communications, sales and growth experience to Engage Your Stage, along with something equally valuable: she understands what it means to be both behind the talent and on the stage.

Whether she’s helping a speaker build a bigger business, a company unlock growth or a band find its audience, the work has always been about the same thing:

Turning potential into performance.