About Momentum Speakers | Boutique Speakers Agency Canada | Dan Shaikh & Rina Rovinelli

Where Speakers Are Built

Every speaker we represent was built here. Momentum Speakers is a boutique speakers agency from the team behind Speaker Slam®. When you book from our roster, you are booking a voice that has been coached, certified, and proven in front of live audiences and industry judges before ever reaching your stage.

Why Organizations Book Through Us

Most agencies list speakers. We build them. Every voice on our roster came up through a decade of Speaker Slam®, where speakers are coached, judged, and tested in front of live audiences of 200 or more before they ever carry your event.

That development system is your quality control. It means the speaker who takes your stage has a refined message, professional assets, verified milestones, and hours of real stage time behind them. No gamble, no celebrity fluff, no untested voices.

We keep the roster deliberately small. Instead of handing you a directory of a hundred profiles, we listen to the problem your event needs to solve, whether that is burnout, disengagement, inclusion, or resilience, and match you with the speaker who solves it.

That is what Momentum Speakers is. A boutique roster, a proven development system behind it, and a team that treats your event like the main stage.

Meet the Founders

Rina Rovinelli

Rina Rovinelli

Co-Founder & Speaker Coach

Rina has coached over a thousand speakers through Speaker Slam® and sets the quality bar for everyone on the Momentum roster. She is recognized as a Top 25 Woman of Influence. When a speaker carries your event, Rina has personally shaped how they command a room.

Top 25 Woman of Influence Brilliant Minded Woman Award
Dan Shaikh

Dan Shaikh

Co-Founder & Publicist

Dan is a publicity strategist who has placed our speakers on CP24, CTV, Breakfast Television, and viral media platforms reaching millions. That media record means the voices you book come with stories already proven in front of national audiences. He is a 2025 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant and winner of the Toronto Star Gold Award for Best PR.

Top 25 Canadian Immigrant 2025 Toronto Star Gold Award Mental Health Reporting Award Peak 40 Under 40

Powered by Speaker Slam®

Speaker Slam® is a speaker development agency best known for creating North America's largest inspirational speaking competition. Founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and now in its 10th season, Speaker Slam® gives changemakers, entrepreneurs, and experts the training, tools, and credentials to build a speaking career. The stage, the judges, the audience, the energy of competition night, it is where speakers discover what they are capable of and where the world gets to see it. Momentum Speakers and Speaker Slam® share the same belief: that one story, told well, can change a room, a career, or a life.

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How Our Speakers Earn Their Place

Nobody joins this roster by submitting a headshot. Every Momentum speaker has been developed, vetted, and verified: their message, their positioning, their speaker assets, their stage presence, and their track record all had to meet the bar before they could carry a client stage.

By the time a speaker reaches our roster, they have a defined niche, a professional speaker reel, paid engagements behind them, and real stage hours in front of live audiences and industry judges. That vetting is your guarantee: the voice at your event has already proven itself.

Certified Inspirational Speaker
Inspirational
Certified Professional Speaker
Professional
Certified Expert Speaker
Expert
Certified Thought Leader
Thought Leader

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Tell us about your event and the problem you want solved. We will match you with the speaker who delivers it.

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