Indiana
Keynote speaker, corporate magician and mentalist working throughout Indiana. Holiday parties, awards banquets and company keynotes that are clean, genuinely funny, and built so the room leaves connected.
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The local read
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.
The real brief
It is “make this night worth what it costs”, and two things are quietly working against every Indiana event on the calendar.
Teams that used to share a hallway now share a calendar invite. Gallup finds just two in ten employees have a best friend at work, and global engagement has fallen to 20 percent. The people in your room are friendlier with their group chat than with the person three desks over.
Book the wrong comedian and you spend the budget making a third of the room uncomfortable, because the set turns political, or crude, or starts punching at somebody in the audience. Then leadership spends January doing damage control instead of riding the goodwill.
So the bar is simple. Clean enough for everyone, funny enough to earn the room, and built so people walk out feeling appreciated and connected rather than merely amused.
Why this is a line item worth defending
When people feel connected, productivity goes up. When people feel appreciated, they stay. Both are expensive to lose and unusually cheap to create.
Compare the cost of losing two people this year against the cost of one night that your team quotes back to each other for months. Shared memories are what culture is made of, and an evening is a remarkably cheap way to manufacture one on purpose.
Inside the show
Mentalism does the heavy lifting, the laughs never stop for long, and underneath it the evening is quietly building toward the thing you actually needed said to this group.
One sequence in the show is a team-building exercise in disguise. It needs the entire room pulling in the same direction, and it ends with somebody from your company vanishing in front of everyone. It is consistently the thing people talk about afterward, which is exactly why it stays undescribed here.
The demo reel
Real stages, real rooms, real reactions. If you are deciding whether this fits your Indiana event, start here.
On the ground
Plus a national tree care company’s holiday party at the Hilton Indianapolis, a motorsports team’s marquee evening at the Indy Pavilion and a mechanical contracting group’s annual training in Indianapolis. Most clients are covered by confidentiality agreements, so they stay unnamed here.
Who books this here
Indiana work has run through field services and tree care, motorsports hospitality, mechanical contracting, commercial roofing, cold-storage logistics, stone and aggregates, medical equipment, retail, humane societies and statewide housing associations.
“You wouldn’t think magic and real estate would go together, but the way he tied his performance to our industry was phenomenal.”
Stephen JacksonChair, Midwest Multifamily Committee · Indiana Apartment Association, Indianapolis
Planning notes
Indianapolis is under two hours up I-74 and southeastern Indiana is closer still, which puts most of the state inside comfortable drive range from Cincinnati. Batesville, Richmond and Franklin come up regularly alongside Indianapolis itself, and the small-city work is often the most enjoyable because the whole company is in one room. Indiana holiday parties concentrate hard into the first three weekends of December, so early conversations get materially better dates.
Formats
The centrepiece of the season. Ninety minutes that hold a full ballroom, clean enough for every guest and every pay grade, and built so the evening feels like appreciation rather than obligation.
Close-up magic during the reception means people are laughing together before dinner is even served.
Awards nights live or die on pacing. Magic between segments keeps the energy up, custom moments can be built around your winners, and the closing ties the honors back to why the work matters.
Your people get celebrated properly instead of sitting through a list.
A 45 to 60 minute keynote that solves the after-lunch problem. Ideas are demonstrated rather than asserted, nobody drifts, and the takeaway survives the drive home.
Conference general sessions, company kickoffs, all-hands and leadership days.
Indiana cities
Each city page carries its own venues, local clients and testimonials from companies near you.
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.
And every Indiana city on this page is a drive from Cincinnati, not a flight, so Indiana dates book at local rates. Same show, no travel premium.
Questions
It depends what you are actually buying. Indiana has no shortage of skilled close-up magicians, and for a cocktail hour that may be exactly right. The much shorter list is performers who can hold a full company on a stage and leave them feeling like the evening meant something.
Rather than take anyone's word for it, watch three minutes of the reel and read what the companies on this page said afterward. Those are the only two things worth judging on.
Yes, regularly. 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.
City pages with local venues and testimonials: Indianapolis.
$15,000 is where keynotes start. Everything else is priced once the format is settled, because an evening stage show and a conference general session are different jobs.
A fly-in performer adds airfare, a hotel night and a travel day. Indiana is a drive, so that whole category disappears.
Company holiday parties, awards banquets, conference and association keynotes, sales kickoffs, all-hands meetings, customer appreciation nights, safety celebrations and fundraising galas.
Indiana work has run through field services and tree care, motorsports hospitality, mechanical contracting, commercial roofing, cold-storage logistics, stone and aggregates, medical equipment, retail, humane societies and statewide housing associations.
Yes. Nothing political, nothing crude, and no one in the audience is the butt of a joke. That is a deliberate design constraint, not a limitation, because a room cannot feel connected while part of it feels got at.
Among them: the Hilton Indianapolis, the Indy Pavilion, The Garment Factory in Franklin, New Boswell Brewery in Richmond and the Lawrence County Fairgrounds Expo Hall.
New rooms are routine, and staging is worked out with your venue before the date.
Entertainment occupies a slot on the schedule. This is designed to leave people feeling appreciated and connected to each other, which is measurable. Gallup puts the cost of replacing one person between 40 and 200 percent of their salary, and finds well-recognized employees 45 percent less likely to have gone after two years.
No single evening rewrites a culture. But shared memories are what cultures are made of, and an evening is a cheap way to manufacture one deliberately.
Yes, nationwide. Recent work includes Florida, California, Montana, North Carolina and Louisiana. Within driving distance of Cincinnati the same show books without a travel premium, which is why the regional calendar is the busiest part of the year.
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