Los Angeles keynote speaker. 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. A 40-minute keynote, in person, virtual or hybrid, from Los Angeles to anywhere. His TEDx talk is the proof; Google, Netflix, Amazon and Bulgari have seen the magic live.

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Why it works

Your audience has heard every keynote. They haven't felt one.

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 · It happens to them

Not at them. To them.

Johnny doesn't describe how minds get fooled. He fools the whole room live, then reveals the mechanism. Cognitive science calls it change blindness: you were so focused on the one card you were told to watch that you missed five things changing around you.

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.

Change blindness, live3 demonstrationsIn person, virtual, hybrid

A full sales conference audience joining in with Johnny Wu, arms out in unison

A sales conference, The Broadmoor

02 · Sleight of Mind, three acts

A show with a spine.

Act one, 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 two: a classic misdirection routine becomes the lens for the Approval Mountain, the Blueprint Mountain and the Comparison Mountain, and the Mountain Audit asks whose definition of success the room has been chasing. Act three: the finale proves the outcome was decided before anyone thought they were choosing, and the Assumption Inventory teaches the room to spot installed beliefs still steering their decisions.

Johnny Wu on stage with volunteers at a healthcare sales conference

Volunteers on stage

03 · Written for your room

It lands as: that was about us.

Before he steps on stage, Johnny works your company's language, people and theme into the talk. 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.

His largest corporate room so far was a show for 700 executives at Google HQ, with Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler joining him on stage. The demonstrations are built to read from the back row and on screen.

All-hands & kickoffsLeadership offsitesIndustry conferencesAwards nights & galas

Johnny Wu on stage at Google HQ with Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler as the volunteer

The Google HQ show, with Philipp Schindler

04 · After the applause

What your people walk away with.

Reclaimed focus: a visceral understanding of how attention gets hijacked and a practical method to take it back. Tools they'll actually use: the Days Calculator, the Mountain Audit, the Assumption Inventory. Intentional thinking: people stop running on autopilot and start auditing the goals steering their decisions. And a shared moment the whole room went through together, still referenced at the next offsite.

Every attendee leaves with the frameworks and the 30-day Play Your Own Hand Challenge to put them to work. Many planners pair the keynote with copies of the book, and a signing can usually be arranged.

Johnny Wu performing on stage in a grand ballroom under a painted ceiling, audience at round tables

A grand ballroom, mid-show

2,200+ five-star reviews

What the room says after.

Real reviews, their words, unedited.

Google review

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“I had the chance to see Johnny Wu speak on the TEDx stage, and honestly, he was incredible. His talk was deeply moving,...”

Jake JohnsonTEDx talk

“Johnny Wu was invited to our company all-hands and completely blew us away! The show was amazing, engaging and honestly just WILD to witness”

Jessica PanCompany all-hands

Yelp review

“Was lucky enough to attend a work event where Johnny Wu was the main act for the night. What an amazing performance he put on! Phenomenal stage presence, captivating tricks, and the ability to immerse everyone. I highly recommend for any personal event.”

John A.Work event

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