As Seen on Netflix · TEDx Speaker · 2,000+ Five-Star Reviews · Trusted by 18 Fortune 500 Companies — Book Now →
As Seen on Netflix · TEDx Speaker · 2,000+ Five-Star Reviews · Trusted by 18 Fortune 500 Companies — Book Now →
You’ve been watching
the
wrong card.
Johnny Wu opens by fooling everyone in your room at the same moment — then shows them exactly how it happened, and why the same sleight of mind is quietly running their focus, their goals, and their days. Google, Netflix, Amazon and Bvlgari have seen it live.
40-min keynote
In-person · Virtual · Hybrid
Los Angeles → Worldwide
This is the principle that opens every keynote — straight from Chapter One of Play Your Own Hand. Fifteen seconds. Follow the instructions exactly. They matter.
You'll see five cards for a couple of seconds. Pick one. Hold it in your mind.
Every card changed — not just yours. You were so focused on the one thing you were told to watch, you missed five things changing around you. Cognitive science calls it change blindness. I call it the reason most people are climbing a mountain they never chose.
Now imagine that happening to 700 people at once. That's the booking.
40
Minutes, one arc
3
Live demonstrations
1
Keynote per date
Live&Virtual
In-person, virtual or hybrid
LA→World
Based in Los Angeles, travels anywhere
By the third speaker of the day, the room is on its phones and the takeaways are gone by Monday. Johnny solves the one thing every agenda is fighting for: attention that sticks.
01
Johnny doesn't describe how minds get fooled. He fools the whole room live, then reveals the mechanism. A principle that happens to you is one you don't forget — that's the difference between a talk people applaud and a talk people quote a year later.
02
Every effect maps to a real business problem: attention, decision-making, inherited assumptions. Leaders get substance grounded in cognitive science. The room gets a show. Nobody gets a lecture.
03
Before he steps on stage, Johnny works your company's language, people, and theme into the talk. It lands as “that was about us” — not “that was a nice speaker.”
Built for high-stakes rooms
All-hands & kickoffs
Leadership offsites
Industry conferences
Sales & high-performer teams
Awards nights & galas
Client & VIP events
Act One · Change blindness, live
The Clock Is Running
A card routine exposes the most expensive illusion in the room: that there's always a “later.” Johnny does the math on stage — 27,375 days in an average life — and the room runs the Days Calculator on what's actually left.
Act One · Change blindness, live
The Clock Is Running
A classic misdirection routine becomes the lens for the Approval Mountain, the Blueprint Mountain, and the Comparison Mountain. The Mountain Audit asks the uncomfortable question: whose definition of success has the room been chasing?
Act One · Change blindness, live
The Clock Is Running
The finale proves the outcome was decided before anyone thought they were choosing. The Assumption Inventory teaches the room to spot installed beliefs — from parents, teachers, culture — still steering their decisions.
“Once you know how a trick works, you have a responsibility to stop letting it be run on you.”
Every attendee leaves with the frameworks — and the 30-day Play Your Own Hand Challenge to put them to work.
01
A visceral understanding of how attention gets hijacked — and a practical method to take it back.
02
The Days Calculator, the Mountain Audit, the Assumption Inventory. Simple frameworks that turn insight into behavior.
03
People stop running on autopilot and start auditing the goals and assumptions steering their decisions.
04
A live experience the whole room goes through together — still being referenced at the next offsite.
Twelve years old. New to the country. Bullied so badly he thought about quitting school — until a teacher played a video of David Copperfield, and for the first time the same kids who mocked him went silent. Wide-eyed. Not laughing at him. With him.
He locked himself in his room for two months with a deck of cards. One gig became two. Two became twenty. Twenty years later he's performing for 700 executives at Google HQ, with Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler joining him on stage, appearing on Netflix's Star Search, and teaching rooms the exact psychology of how attention, assumption, and misdirection quietly run our lives.
“If magic could make even them stop and wonder… maybe it could save me too.”
Phones down. Heads up. This is what “engaged” actually looks like.
Corporate keynote · Netflix
The TEDx Talk
A talk about the difference between applause and alignment. Not a pep talk — a mirror.
Premiering soon · TEDxBeverlyGrove
2000+
Five-star reviews
20 yrs
Studying the psychology of attention
700+
Executives in one room · Google HQ
50+
Virtual shows from his studio, incl. Fortune 500
Also seen on Netflix's Star Search · Season 1, Episode 5
The Book
The Magician's Method for Seeing Through the Tricks, Reclaiming Your Days, and Finally Living the Life You Actually Chose.
Before chapter one, Johnny performs a sixty-second trick on you. No stage. No assistant. Just you, this book, and a psychological principle that's been running quietly in the background of your life. This is not a book about hustling harder. It's the reveal.
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Johnny follows up personally. No spam, ever.
Every booking starts with a discovery call about your audience, your theme, and the outcome you want. Johnny then works your company's language and challenges into the talk, so the room hears their own situation reflected back — not a stock script.
Yes. During COVID he built a dedicated studio and performed 50+ virtual shows, including paid virtual keynotes for Fortune 500 companies. The demonstrations are designed to work through a camera, so remote attendees get fooled right along with the room.
A standard keynote setup. Johnny keeps requirements deliberately light and locks specifics with your production team during the run-of-show call, so there are no surprises on the day.
From leadership offsites to full general sessions — his largest corporate room to date was 700 executives at Google HQ. The demonstrations are built to read from the back row and on screen.
Often, yes. Many planners pair the keynote with copies of Play Your Own Hand for attendees, and a signing can usually be arranged. Ask about it on the discovery call and Johnny will find what fits your event and budget.
Johnny takes one keynote per date, so popular windows — fall kickoffs, January meetings — go first. Reach out as soon as your date is set. Shorter timelines are worth asking about too; if the date is open, it's yours.
1
Send the form below or email hello@omnimagic.co with your date. You'll hear back within one business day — personally.
2
A short call about your audience, your goals, and the outcome you want the room to leave with.
3
Johnny weaves your company into the talk, then locks logistics with your team: A/V, timing, run-of-show.
4
He delivers on the day. Your team leaves with the frameworks, the book, and a moment they keep talking about.
Tell me about your event. I’ll send a tailored proposal, tech rider, and pricing within 24 hours — built specifically for your audience, stage, and room.
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