Teach your team what magicians know about people.

Kostya Kimlat is a keynote speaker and magician who fooled Penn & Teller.

A magician plans everything around what the audience will feel. With live magic, Kostya teaches teams to do the same with customers and with each other, and gives them a shared language for it.

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The Business Magician takes the stage to teach your team, or to entertain your guests.

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Kostya’s keynotes

A keynote for your conference, sales kickoff or leadership meeting, where your team learns what magicians know about people and how to use it with customers and with each other.

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Kostya’s magic shows

Magic and mentalism for receptions, galas and client dinners, on stage for the whole room or close up in your guests’ hands. Guests take part, and nobody is made the joke.

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Teller and Penn Jillette react with delight as Kostya, seated between them, holds a deck of cards on Penn & Teller: Fool Us

“One of the best magicians we have in the world today.”

Penn Jillette, Orlando Sentinel

Keynotes

What your team can learn

Kostya and four laughing volunteers on the TEDx Sarasota stage, the red TEDx letters behind them

TEDx Talk

How to read anyone in six seconds.

18 minutes

Client reviews

5× client

George Perreault

I have hired Kostya on 5 separate occasions. Years later, people still remember his presentation.
Tamah Kushner

Conference organizer

I honestly thought it might be a bit cheesy. Boy was I wrong! Kostya was entertaining and thought-provoking.
Christopher Chen

Director, North America Sales & Marketing

Even now almost a week later, we are still referring to his presentation details and using the concepts.

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Kostya as a young boy in a bow tie and suspenders, hands on his hips, on a busy street

About Kostya

It started with a $160 book set.

Kostya was nine when his family arrived in Orlando from Kyiv as Soviet refugees in 1992, starting over with almost nothing.

After watching a magic special on TV, he couldn’t let it go. His father spent $160, a real sum for new Americans, on an eight-volume magic book set so his son could learn.

Since then he has performed in hundreds of cities on five continents, and on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, his original card trick fooled them both.

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Perception

Thoughts from The Business Magician

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Kostya Kimlat on the TEDx stage, mid-exchange with an audience volunteer

I Spent 20 Years Building This Keynote. TEDx Gave Me 18 Minutes.

Kostya Kimlat's TEDx talk, How To Read Anyone In 6 Seconds, is live. The keynote on reading people he has built for years, condensed into 18 minutes.

Kostya Kimlat speaking to a corporate audience

AI Is the Best Method Ever Built. It Still Can't Create the Effect.

Audiences feel the effect and never see the method. As AI handles more of the method, the way your people make customers feel is what sets your company apart.

Kostya Kimlat performing close-up magic

Why Anticipation Creates More Powerful Experiences Than Surprise

Why building anticipation does more for your customers than surprising them.

Kostya Kimlat alone in a spotlight on a dark stage, one hand raised toward the audience

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