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Most corporate event planners in New York have seen a magician before. Usually at a company party years ago, someone doing card tricks in the corner while people refilled their drinks and checked their phones. It was fine. Nobody remembered it the next day. That is not what happens...

Corporate retreats have a different energy than office parties. People are away from their desks, often in a new environment, usually in a better mood than they are on a Tuesday afternoon. The walls come down a little. Conversations happen that don’t happen in conference rooms. Bonds form that...

Most gala entertainment is booked as a line item. Budget gets allocated, someone picks a band or a DJ, and the “entertainment” box gets checked. The result is predictable: a room full of sophisticated people listening to the same set they heard at last year’s gala, politely clapping, and...

People often assume that magic works best on children. That adults are too skeptical, too rational, too analytically wired to feel genuine wonder. Corporate audiences especially, they think, will just try to figure out the trick. They’re wrong. And the psychology explains why. Adults in professional settings don’t just...

I’ve performed at hundreds of corporate holiday parties. Ballrooms at the Plaza. Private dining rooms in Midtown. Loft spaces in Tribeca. Open bars in Jersey City. Intimate dinners for ten partners. Standing-room-only parties for four hundred people who all want to be somewhere else. I’ve seen what works and...