Areas served
Based in Cincinnati, booking holiday parties, awards banquets and company keynotes throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, and flying nationwide for the rest.
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The real brief
They book one because something in the room needs fixing, and two things are working against every company company party right now.
Hybrid schedules, screens, turnover and back-to-back calls have quietly deleted the small moments where colleagues used to become people to each other. Gallup puts global employee engagement at 20 percent, the lowest since 2020, and finds only two in ten employees have a best friend at work.
A lot of acts that read as corporate on a website turn out to be political on a stage, or build their laughs by making an easy target of someone in the front row. You are underwriting that risk with your culture budget and your name on the invitation.
The fix is not more entertainment. It is entertainment designed to leave people liking each other, safe enough for every person in the room, and funny enough that nobody notices it is doing work.
What the research actually says
Recognition and belonging are the two levers with the best evidence behind them, and an event is one of the few places you can pull both at once in a single evening.
Put one replacement hire next to the cost of one evening and the comparison answers itself. The difference between a forgettable party and a memorable one is not the catering. It is whether anyone leaves feeling seen, and that is the part this show is actually built to do.
What actually happens
The show is a keynote that happens to be astonishing. Magic and mentalism carry it, the laughs are constant, and the whole thing is engineered so the point you needed made lands while everyone is still smiling.
Somewhere in the stage show there is a piece that looks like a magic trick and functions as a team-building exercise. The whole room has to participate for it to work, and it finishes with one of your own people invisible. It is the moment that gets retold, so I would rather not spoil it in a paragraph.
The demo reel
Real stages, real rooms, real reactions. If you are deciding whether this fits your company event, start here.
Where
Every state and city page carries its own venues, local clients and testimonials from companies near you.
Home state.
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Northern Kentucky is fifteen minutes from home base, and Lexington and Louisville are both an easy same-day drive, which keeps Kentucky bookings at local rates rather than fly-in rates.
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Indianapolis is under two hours from Cincinnati, and southeastern Indiana is closer than that, so Indiana holiday parties and awards banquets book at drive-in rates.
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Michigan is a drive, not a flight, and the work there has run from Farmington Hills and Dearborn to Clarkston, Traverse City and points north.
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“You could have heard a pin drop in the room when you were closing. You hit every single theme of every single day in your recap. You were perfection.”
Rob DillEVP & Global Chief Audit Executive, MetLife
“If you have the opportunity to “wow” an audience and give them an experience they’ll never forget, you need Daniel. He had us laughing and feeling sentimental while dropping our jaws.”
Renée Gad, PMP, CMPEmployee Experience Evangelist, MetLife
Formats
The big one. A full stage show that is funny start to finish, safe for every person in the room including the ones who brought a spouse, and warm enough that the thank-you from leadership actually lands.
Add mingling magic during cocktails and the room is warm before anyone touches a microphone.
Recognition only works if people are awake for it. Magic between segments carries the energy across the flat spots, and bespoke moments can be built around specific honorees.
The night ends feeling like a celebration instead of a ceremony.
A 45 to 60 minute keynote written around your theme rather than dropped on top of it. The mentalism turns abstract ideas into things people watch happen, which is why they remember them.
Sales kickoffs, all-hands meetings, leadership retreats and conference general sessions.
Local rate, national resume
This show has played corporate stages coast to coast, from a global audit summit in Florida to a city staff day in California, a gala in Montana and conventions in North Carolina and Louisiana. Fortune 500 rooms are a regular part of the calendar.
Within driving distance of Cincinnati you get the same show without the travel premium, which is why the regional holiday calendar fills first every year.
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Questions
Cincinnati, Ohio. Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan are all drive dates, which means no airfare and no travel day on the quote. The show also works nationwide, and recent work includes Florida, California, Montana, North Carolina and Louisiana.
Magic, mentalism and keynote speaking, combined. The show is funny the whole way through and engineered so the message you needed made lands while people are still smiling. Holiday parties, awards banquets and conference keynotes are the three most common formats.
Keynotes start at $15,000. Holiday party stage shows, awards banquets and reception magic are quoted on request, because they are genuinely different bookings.
Completely. Nothing political, nothing crude, and nobody in the audience is made the punchline. A room cannot feel connected while part of it feels got at.
Because it is measurable. Gallup finds well-recognized employees are 45 percent less likely to have left after two years, and that replacing one person costs between 40 and 200 percent of their salary. SHRM finds 42 percent of employees in a negative work culture think about leaving, against 9 percent in a positive one.
Check availability
Dates, headcount, the room, and what you need the night to do. I answer these personally, usually same day.
Prefer to talk? 801-452-5988 · Cincinnati, Ohio · available nationwide