Brad Montgomery Comedian/Mind-Reader

Brad's basically been "on" since middle school. Seventh grade, he picked up a deck of cards and a magic trick — and something clicked. While everyone else was still figuring out who they wanted to be, Brad was already figuring out how to read a room. How to make people lean in. How to hold a moment just long enough that it sticks. That instinct turned into a decade-plus of full-time work as a professional magician — corporate stages, cruise ships, comedy clubs, backyard parties, you name it. Anywhere there were chairs and people in them, Brad was finding the trick that made the room laugh, gasp, or forget to check their phones. And the more he did it, the bigger the rooms got. THEN MAGIC TURNED INTO SOMETHING ELSE Fast forward, and Brad's performed for tens of thousands of people across all 50 states and four continents. He's worked with the U.S. military, Fortune 500 names like Microsoft, health systems like Mayo Clinic, national associations, and a long list of brands and organizations big and small. Somewhere in there, he landed in the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame and picked up his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) — a credential a pretty small slice of speakers ever get. Cool stuff. But honestly? Not really the point. The point was always the connection in the room. And at some point, Brad realized mentalism got him there faster than anything else. Magic gets a surprise. A good talk gets an insight. Mentalism gets something else entirely — it gets a shared moment, happening live, together. No slides. No frameworks. Just the gasp, the laugh, the "wait, how did he just—" that pulls a whole room onto the same page at the same time. Middle-school card tricks. International stages. Rooms full of strangers who somehow feel like they're in on something together by the end. Different setting, same throughline: Brad's spent his life studying how to hold a room — how to move attention, build energy, and land a moment so it feels easy, even though it never is.