Ohio
Keynote speaker, corporate magician and mentalist working throughout Ohio. 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
Home state. Cincinnati is home base, and the work runs the length of the state, from Music Hall and TQL Stadium downtown to Dublin, Westerville, Springfield, Dayton, Sandusky and Cleveland.
The real brief
It is “make this night worth what it costs”, and two things are quietly working against every Ohio 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 Ohio event, start here.
On the ground
Plus a national beauty retailer’s asset-protection team meeting outside Columbus, a government software company’s corporate event in Moraine and an electronics distributor’s inside-sales meeting in Dayton. Most clients are covered by confidentiality agreements, so they stay unnamed here.
Who books this here
Ohio work spans consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution, government software, law, financial services, credit unions, county government, independent schools and statewide associations. The client list runs from a Fortune 50 consumer goods company in Cincinnati to a fifteen-person office party in the Miami Valley.
“The performance was exceptional. Everyone was mesmerized. It was a different form of entertainment that brought us together as a group.”
Mary RiceProcter & Gamble, Cincinnati
Planning notes
Ohio is home, which changes the economics. There is no airfare, no travel day and no hotel line on an Ohio quote, and for most of the state a site visit before the date is genuinely practical. The state divides into four distinct booking markets: Cincinnati and its northern suburbs, the Columbus corridor through Dublin and Westerville, the Miami Valley around Dayton and Springfield, and the northeast around Cleveland and the lake. Each has its own room stock and its own seasonal rhythm, and the city pages below go into that in detail.
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.
Ohio cities
Each city page carries its own venues, local clients and testimonials from companies near you.
Cincinnati is home.
See Cincinnati →
Close enough to Cincinnati that Columbus dates book at drive-in rates, and familiar enough that the Dublin and Westerville conference rooms are already known quantities.
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An hour up I-75.
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Northeast Ohio is a drive rather than a flight, which keeps Cleveland dates well under what a fly-in keynote speaker costs, and the theater and ballroom rooms up there suit a full stage show.
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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 Ohio city on this page is a drive from Cincinnati, not a flight, so Ohio dates book at local rates. Same show, no travel premium.
Questions
It depends what you are actually buying. Ohio 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. Home state. Cincinnati is home base, and the work runs the length of the state, from Music Hall and TQL Stadium downtown to Dublin, Westerville, Springfield, Dayton, Sandusky and Cleveland.
City pages with local venues and testimonials: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Cleveland.
$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. Ohio 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.
Ohio work spans consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution, government software, law, financial services, credit unions, county government, independent schools and statewide associations. The client list runs from a Fortune 50 consumer goods company in Cincinnati to a fifteen-person office party in the Miami Valley.
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: Cincinnati Music Hall, TQL Stadium, the Cincinnati Museum Center, The Exchange at Bridge Park in Dublin, Quest Conference Center in Westerville and Embassy Suites Columbus/Dublin.
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