Blow Their Minds

(Without Insulting Their Intelligence.)

Corporate Keynote Speaker for Conferences & Executive Events

Live Mentalism, Illusion & Insight Designed for Thinking Audiences

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Temple, UPitt, and Carnegie Mellon University seals. Nicholas Gentry taught rhetoric and communication at all three institutions, foundational to his work as a corporate mentalist and leadership speaker.

Why Organizations Hire Gentry:

Nicholas Gentry giving a keynote at TEDx.

Keynotes

Conference Openers & Closers: A live demonstration of how attention, judgment, and perception actually shape choices, with lessons executives can use Monday morning.

Executive & Team Sessions

Breakouts, Offsites, Leadership Meetings: Interactive sessions that create shared reference points for clearer communication, stronger alignment, and fewer costly misunderstandings.

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Evening Experiences

Receptions, Dinners, Closing Events: Intelligent, interactive mentalism designed to bring a room together through shared moments of insight — not empty spectacle.

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Multiple Services; One Common Thread:

Making Human Judgment More Useful — Where Decisions Carry Consequence.

Beyond the Stage

This section is for organizations already familiar with the work, or exploring additional deployment contexts.

Most organizations first encounter Gentry in conference rooms or on stage.

Over time, some discover the work is equally effective in other environments where attention is scarce and conversations are costly:

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Trade Show

Qualified Lead Capture: A trade show mobilization designed to stop traffic, spark meaningful conversations, and capture qualified leads through live, interactive demonstrations at the booth.

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Networking

Cocktail Hour: A mobile, informal series of brief judgment and perception demonstrations designed to spark conversation, lower social friction, and create shared moments of insight during receptions, arrivals, and networking periods.

Gentry engaged in a cognitive analysis session with an executive.

Analysis

Facilitated One-On-One Session: A structured session designed for leadership offsites, strategy meetings, or post-event contexts. The session examines how judgment, communication, and decision-making operate at the individual level.

Work With Gentry

mentalist — /ˈmen(t)lɪst/ — n., interprets behavior to predict decisions

a practitioner skilled in discerning patterns of judgment, attention, and influence as they emerge in language, choice, and consequence.

illusionist — /ɪˈluːʒənɪst/ — n., uses deception to reveal how certainty breaks down

a practitioner who uses controlled deception to demonstrate the limits of attention, expectation, and certainty.

philosophist — /fəˈlɒsəfɪst/ — n., questions assumptions to prevent costly errors

distinguished from a philosopher by emphasis on inquiry rather than belief; a practitioner concerned with preventing costly errors in thinking.

rhetorician — /ˌrɛθəˈrɪʃən/ — n., shapes understanding so decisions can happen

a practitioner who applies language, framing, and emphasis in order to align understanding toward action.

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Serving the Northeast Corridor (Boston–Washington, DC), including NYC, NJ, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh — plus nationwide and international clients.

Available for conferences, corporate events, and private engagements throughout the Northeast and beyond.

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