Keely Cat-Wells
Founder and President of C Talent at Whalar
Business and Finance
Keely is an entrepreneur and Disability activist, making social, systemic and economic change. As the founder and president of C Talent, Keely has been named a One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2022, Forbes 30 Under 30 Entertainment honouree, Diana Award winner, an AdWeek Young Influential, GBEA Young Entrepreneur of the Year and has been appointed as an advisory board member to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.
Keely serves as a UNITE 2030 Youth Delegate, is a Forbes Contributor, Tory Burch Foundation fellow and has spoken as a Disability subject matter expert for organisations including LEGO, United Nations, Google, NBC, No Barriers USA (where she also serves as a board member), Cannes Film Festival, The Valuable 500 and Virgin among others.
Keely was chosen as a youth leader at the first Mental Health Youth Action Forum hosted by MTV in coordination with the Biden-Harris Administration and 18 leading mental health non-profits.
Keely founded her first company at a young age during her time in hospital, which developed into C Talent. C Talent is an award-winning talent management company that represents high-profile Deaf and Disabled talent. C Talent has placed talent in thousands of projects with companies and brands such as Savage X Fenty, Disney, Google Pixel, Subaru, Nike and many more. C Talent represents a roster of artists who have a combined reach of over 50 million people!
C Talent received the 2021 Meaningful Business 100 Award and is an honouree of the Disability Specialist Award by RIDI.
C Talent serves as a founding member of #WeThe15.
C Talent was acquired by global creator company Whalar. This acquisition marks a significant investment and milestone for disability representation.
“As a business owner I have constantly been up against the negative and incorrect stereotype that disability means charity, but C Talent getting acquired for over seven-figures shows the power that our community has and the business case of disability inclusion.”