About Momentum Speakers | Speaker Development Agency Toronto | Dan Shaikh & Rina Rovinelli

Where Speakers Are Built

Most people with a story worth sharing never build a career from it. Momentum Speakers is the development agency that changes that. We start with your brand, build to the stage, and keep developing until you are getting booked and paid consistently.

Everything in One Place

Building a speaking career used to mean piecing it together yourself. A coach here, a competition there, a branding person somewhere else, a publicist if you were lucky. Momentum Speakers brings all of it under one roof.

The Momentum Membership is where the brand work happens. Your message, your positioning, your titles, your unique insight, and the personal brand that makes you bookable. At the same time, the Speaker Slam® competition gives you the stage. Real audiences, real judges, real feedback, and a credibility marker that follows your brand everywhere. One membership, two powerful tools working together.

After you compete, the membership keeps going. You work through the certification track, build your speaker reel, your one-sheet, your speaker page, and start getting booked. The development never stops because neither does the opportunity.

That is what Momentum Speakers is. The complete system for building a speaking career from the ground up.

Meet the Founders

Rina Rovinelli

Rina Rovinelli

Co-Founder & Speaker Coach

Rina is a master speaker coach who has helped hundreds of speakers refine their craft and own the stage. She is recognized as a Top 25 Woman of Influence and brings out the best in speakers at every level, from professionals building their platform to established experts ready to command bigger stages.

Top 25 Woman of Influence Brilliant Minded Woman Award
Dan Shaikh

Dan Shaikh

Co-Founder & Publicist

Dan is a publicity strategist who has helped Speaker Slam® alumni land features on Goalcast, Jay Shetty, CP24, CTV, Breakfast Television, and more. He's 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 North America's largest inspirational speaking competition and the heartbeat of this community. 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 We Develop Our Speakers

At Momentum Speakers, development is the work. Every member works through a structured certification pathway that covers their message, their positioning, their speaker assets, their stage presence, and the credibility markers that make event planners say yes.

By the time a speaker reaches our professional tier, they have a defined niche, a speaker reel, a one-sheet, a professional speaker page, paid engagements behind them, and the brand clarity that makes event planners say yes. The certification levels below are not honorary. Each one requires verifiable milestones.

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

Learn About Our Training Program

Start With a Free Class

The best way to understand what we do is to experience it. Join a free Momentum Membership class and see exactly how we develop speakers from the ground up. No commitment required.

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