About

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Shelley Mansholt Thomas is an accomplished and tenacious public relations strategist and corporate communications professional.

The majority of her three decades PR career she was a PR executive and company spokesperson with Fortune 500 leader and world’s largest resort/casino MGM Grand in Las Vegas, promoted to Asst. VP of PR for MGM Resorts International overseeing PR for five resorts, and her fourth promotion to VP of Corporate Communications and Officer for the parent company.

Shelley has long time relationships with regional, national and international media and follows the trends, changing tides and helps to influence others and news headlines.

Her prestigious Las Vegas career PR campaign successes are endless, including Elvis Presley Enterprises first-ever Official Auction from Archives of Graceland with Guernsey’s of New York, International Spokesperson for Barbra Streisand’s Millennium New Year’s Eve Concert, master plan reinvention of MGM Grand as The City of Entertainment, launch of luxury suites The Mansion at MGM Grand, 16,000 seat Grand Garden Arena for dozens of concerts/sporting events, renowned restaurants and celebrity chefs Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina, and A-lister John Travolta’s red carpet movie premiere and after party at Studio 54.

Known in the Entertainment Capital of the World as the PR Maven, in 2005 she took her Las Vegas inspired entrepreneurial spirit and launched her own PR company and LLC working with clients James Beard Award-Winning Chef Michael Mina and his team to launch Bourbon Steak at the Fairmont Scottsdale AZ, C Level luxury boutique at Boca Park and Spring Mountain Motor Resort & Country Club for international auto aficionados. 

In 2012 she worked in Tampa Bay, Florida and managed the 100,000 square foot Knights Point real estate complex on Harbour Island during a National Political Convention booking national media from Bloomberg Media, the Charlie Rose Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.  

She is an avid traveler and in 2018 toured nine provinces in China for 21 days with her client renowned American pianist Philip Fortenberry for his Salute To Broadway Tour, worked in Paris, France for the launch of the original Crazy Horse Paris production show La Femme at MGM Grand, visited the Blue Zone of Costa Rica, hiked the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and snorkeled the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize.

Shelley is active in her community and currently serves since 2020 on the Board of Directors for nonprofit The Indian Riverkeeper a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance.  She supports numerous other charitable organizations and causes, and one of her favorite annual charity events supports Operation 300 where she runs the 5k or 10k race.  In 2024 she will join her Las Vegas colleagues to walk for Unshakeable helping to empower at-risk women.   

She is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a Leadership Las Vegas Graduate by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and holds a certificate from the MGM Diversity Champion program.

Living in a South Florida tropical paradise and glitzy Las Vegas, she loves dining out as a foodie, drinking iced Americanos at a locally owned coffee shop, supporting small businesses, entrepreneurs and farmers markets, paddle boarding, running charity races, snorkeling, hiking and traveling.

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