Full Name
Keely Cat-Wells
Job Title
CEO & Founder
Company
Making Space
Speaker Bio
Entrepreneur and Disability rights advocate. After acquiring a disability at 17 and facing discrimination in the creative industry, Keely founded C Talent — the leading agency representing Disabled artists in The Hunger Games, Avatar, and The Last of Us — acquired in 2022 in the largest acquisition of a Disabled-led talent company.
She then founded Making Space to close the disability employment gap, now trusted by Netflix, NBC, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Salesforce. Its flagship Ascend program has generated over $220M in projected lifetime economic impact. Keely is also co-producer of Fight to Fly with Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine, a Forbes Contributor, and a Disability subject matter expert to leaders from President Biden to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
She then founded Making Space to close the disability employment gap, now trusted by Netflix, NBC, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Salesforce. Its flagship Ascend program has generated over $220M in projected lifetime economic impact. Keely is also co-producer of Fight to Fly with Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine, a Forbes Contributor, and a Disability subject matter expert to leaders from President Biden to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
