Speaker reel
See Wesley in the room.
Stage footage to share with your committee before you send the contract.
For event coordinators
Speaker media kit.
This speaker media kit holds everything you need to book Wesley: bio, rider, photos, and talk topics. He is here to make sure no one mistakes survival for living.
Technical requirements
Event rider.
Read this section before you send a contract. Because Wesley travels in a wheelchair, a few of the items below are access requirements rather than preferences, and they are easier to solve early than on the morning of the event. Meanwhile, everything else is flexible; if a venue cannot meet a line item, tell us and we will work around it.
- Stage access
- Wheelchair-accessible stage with ramped entry. No stairs to the podium or speaking position. Minimum stage dimensions: 20ft x 20ft.
- Audio
- Lavalier (clip-on) microphone preferred. PA system scaled to venue capacity. HDMI connection and projection screen for slides.
- Green room
- Private, wheelchair-accessible green room available one hour before the event. Water, light refreshments, and reliable Wi-Fi.
- Ground transportation
- Wheelchair-accessible vehicle from accommodation to venue. Please confirm vehicle type when arranging logistics.
- Travel
- Economy or business class airfare and accommodation covered by the client organization. Please coordinate directly with Wesley’s team.
- Scheduling
- Please confirm event timing at least 60 days in advance. A signed agreement and deposit are required to hold the date.
Press and media
Bio and photos for your speaker media kit.
Approved long bio. Wesley Hamilton is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant and world traveler from Kansas City whose life has required him to redefine himself more than once.
Long before the wheelchair, Wesley was a young man who struggled to see a future beyond the environment around him. He dropped out of high school, earned his GED, hustled in the streets, and learned survival before he learned possibility.
At 24, Wesley was shot multiple times and left paralyzed from the waist down. The injury changed his body, but the years that followed forced him to question something deeper: who he was when the identities he had relied on no longer fit.
Fitness became a path back to ownership. Fatherhood gave him perspective. Entrepreneurship gave him a place to build. Speaking gave him a way to turn lived experience into conversation. Consulting allowed him to turn that perspective into strategy. Travel opened a world the younger Wesley never imagined seeing.
Today Wesley’s work spans adaptive wellness, accessibility, disability inclusion, business, culture, travel and storytelling. He has built organizations, advised leaders, spoken on major stages, and created platforms designed to expand what people believe is possible. His message is not that adversity is a gift. It is that circumstance does not get the final word on identity.
He is still building. Still exploring. Still becoming.
Short bio. Wesley Hamilton is a Kansas City based entrepreneur, speaker, consultant and world traveler whose work explores identity, strength, accessibility, culture and possibility. After being shot and paralyzed at 24, Wesley rebuilt more than his body. He rebuilt the way he understood himself. Today he uses lived experience and more than a decade of building to move audiences, advise organizations, and show what can happen when circumstance stops being the limit of the story.
Please use the bio above verbatim where possible, since it has been checked with Wesley. Alternatively, a shortened version is available on request for programmes with tight word counts. High-resolution photos sit alongside this speaker media kit and may be used for promotion of the booked event. Finally, if you need a headshot, a stage shot, or logo files in a specific format, write to the team and we will send them the same day.
Booking inquiries.
Tell us the date, the room, and what the audience is carrying into it. We will send the full kit and a short availability window the same day.