Corporate mentalist & keynote speaker · Philadelphia
The Intellectual’s Illusionist
Blow Their Minds
Without Insulting Their Intelligence
A mind reader who taught persuasion at Carnegie Mellon. Your audience’s judgment and decisions become the show.
One all-inclusive fee. Light technical needs. See pricing →
Your people take part, and they look brilliant doing it.
What Gentry does
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Mentalism for corporate events and conferences
A keynote or featured show built around your theme: judgment, attention and decision-making, demonstrated live.
Trade show booth activation →
A live metaphor for social engineering. Stops traffic and walks qualified prospects to your reps
Entertainment & receptions →
Walk-around mind reading for the cocktail hour, then a featured show after dinner
Team building & communication training →
Offsites, breakouts and leadership sessions
Highlights from stages, studios and private events
Live jazz + mentalism →
The Gentry Band plays your evening, then the bassist steps forward and reads minds
Cognitive Analysis →
One-to-one structured thinking for executives facing a consequential decision
One performer, light technical needs, an all-inclusive fee. Rooms as small as five and as large as several thousand. See where Gentry performs →
Want to see him live first? Public shows and tickets →
What clients say
“Every three to five minutes, for hours, Gentry brought a new, engaged lead to our booth.”
Edan Tal, Director of Marketing, Port AI
“He left our entire team utterly amazed.”
Joe Mallee, CEO, MassMutual of Eastern PA
“His philosophical mentalism is completely unique, and unlike most corporate edutainers, he is genuinely and deeply qualified.”
Donna Thomas, CMP, Director of Events, Crowne Plaza Hotel
“He’s easy to work with—responsive in the planning process, clear on logistics, and reliable on-site.”
Michael Yoder, Booking Agent, Funny Business Entertainment Agency
Check availability
Send the date and city. Gentry answers every inquiry himself, within 24 hours and often the same day.
Prefer to talk? 917-456-5760
Booking agent or bureau? Reels you can forward →
Questions planners ask
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He works with attention, judgment and perception, so the demonstration runs on the audience’s own thinking rather than on apparatus. At a conference that becomes a keynote built around how people decide. At a reception it becomes close-up work moving from group to group. The through line is that your people are the material.
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Gentry does both, and the same booking is billed either way depending on which word the room already uses. The distinction worth caring about is subject rather than craft. The material here is attention, judgment and decision-making, so what the audience takes part in doubles as something worth arguing about afterward.
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Yes, and it is the format with the most leverage. Gentry holds an MA in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon, taught at four universities including Carnegie Mellon, and has given a TEDx talk. The result is a keynote that carries an argument and demonstrates it live instead of describing it from a lectern.
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Yes. The same demonstrations that carry a ballroom become a working session on cognitive bias, influence and decision-making when the group is smaller. Team sessions are built around the questions your people are actually arguing about.
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Based in Philadelphia, working New York, Washington DC, New Jersey, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, and booking nationwide and internationally. He has performed in dozens of countries. There is a list of the cities he works in.
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As small as five and as large as several thousand.
Strategic Mentalism for Deep Thinkers and Market Movers
He taught persuasion at four universities. Now he makes your audience the smartest people in the room.
“The apostrophe-s in The Intellectual’s Illusionist matters. It means you are the intellectual. I just work for you.” Gentry
Your audience is the demonstration.
Live, unscripted mind reading that shows how capable people notice, judge and decide. Ideas the room experiences, so it remembers them.
Four universities. One TEDx stage.
MA in Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon. Taught at Carnegie Mellon, Temple, Duquesne and Pitt. Three years teaching high school in Japan. Peace Corps, Ghana. TEDx talk: “Faking It IS Making It.”
Performed worldwide.
Dozens of countries, from Tokyo and Delhi to Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid and Marrakech. International audiences are home turf.
Trusted by, and performed at
Entertained hospitality guests at four games during the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Philadelphia