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Life and leadership on purpose

Waking up:
what it costs, and
what it’s worth.

Keynotes and workshops on living and leading on purpose, for leadership meetings, sales events, conferences, women’s leadership events and wellness retreats.
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Your people are capable.

Plenty of them are also running on autopilot: one busy season after another, doing it well, rarely stopping to ask whether their time and energy match what they say matters.

My keynotes start with my own decision points,
then hand the question to your audience.

“Nailed it! Our organization needs to do better at setting the scene so our teams are successful and Shelby gave us tools we can implement today to do that.”

Hospital executive

Signature keynote

AWAKEN

Living and Leading On Purpose

Are you on autopilot? Most of us don’t choose it.

We say yes enough times that the life builds itself, and by the time we notice, we’re years into something we never decided on.

AWAKEN is the interruption: a wake-up call, and an invitation to live deliberately from here.

Your audience will

01

Get clearer on what matters to them in work and life, and what success means to them

02

Learn to recognize a decision point: the moment they’re running on habit, and where they have room to choose

03

Take away Catch it. Name it. Claim it., a simple framework for the next step

04

Trade “Can I do this?” for “Who do I need to become to do this?”

05

See what it looks like to be ambitious and present at the same time
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Also available

No finish line

Choosing Hard on Purpose to build resilience that lasts
There’s the hard you sign up for, and the hard that arrives without asking. This keynote lives in the space between them. What carries across is pacing, and knowing the difference between resilience that depletes you and resilience that lasts. The hard decisions, the hard conversations, the hard calls, the hard yeses: that is the leadership.

Your event

Shaped for your room

A leadership meeting around a boardroom table

Keynote

Leadership meetings and sales events

Leading on purpose under pressure, and adapting quickly when the plan changes.
Attendees taking notes at a women’s leadership event

Keynote

Women’s leadership events and wellness retreats

Defining your ALL, and making room for the things that make life feel full.
A team workshop with sticky notes on a table

Workshop

Workshops for teams

For groups that want to go deeper, a workshop turns the keynote into practice, with time to apply it to real decisions.
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The experience

What it’s like
in the room

“Shelby is very passionate and has a strong presence. She moves around the room and makes everyone feel connected.”
Leadership executive

It feels like a conversation.

I want people to feel like they’re talking with a friend over coffee: seen, heard and challenged to look at things differently.

The stories lead somewhere.

Each one connects to a question or a framework your audience can take back to their own work and life.

There’s room to laugh.

Serious subjects, and plenty of laughter.

Meet Shelby

The board room.
The hospital room.
The laundry room.

I’ve been in all three.
Fifteen years in the fast-paced, high-stakes world of MedTech, from sales into leadership and internal strategy. I hold an MBA and an M.S. in Organizational Leadership, and training in performance psychology.
I’m also a wife and a mom of three daughters, a retired endurance athlete, and I live with adrenal insufficiency.

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Shelby speaking at a podium

MedTech director

Shelby smiling on a video call, holding a microphone

Coach

Shelby kissing her daughter on the first day of pre-K

Mother

Is this a fit for your event?

A good fit if

  • Your audience is leaders, managers or high performers who carry a lot and do it well
  • You’re planning a leadership meeting, sales event, conference, women’s leadership event or wellness retreat
  • You want real stories and practical tools in the same session
  • Purpose, intentional leadership, adaptability or resilience fit your theme

Probably not the right fit if

  • You need a technical or industry-specific training session
  • You need compliance or mandatory training delivered at volume
  • You’re booking pure entertainment

For Meeting Planners

Short bio

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Our next guest will tell you she was doing everything right, but life didn’t feel right, so she changed that and create a purpose driven way of existence.

She’ll also tell you what it took to get there — an early launch into adulthood, climbing the career ladder, personal challenges with young children, and years of living with a rare chronic illness that doesn’t announce itself to anyone in the room.

What she built out of that is called Shelby on Purpose. She’s here to talk about waking up — what it costs, and what it’s worth.

Please welcome Shelby

Headshots

High-res photos

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Booking

shelby@shelbyonpurpose.com

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Shelby in a white shirt, arms overhead, smiling and looking up
Shelby laughing, holding a laptop and a pen

The details

Formats

Keynote · Workshop · [Keynote with Q&A? Confirm]

Length

[Keynote and workshop lengths]

Delivery

[In person · Virtual. Confirm]

Based in

South Central Kansas · [travel availability]

Audience size

[Range]

AV

[Microphone preference · screen · slides]

Fees

[Starting-at fee or range, or “shared on request”]

Lead time

[Typical booking lead time]
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Let’s talk about
who’s in the room.

Share the date, the audience and what you hope they’ll take with them. I’d love to hear about your event, and I’ll be honest about whether I’m the right fit.
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