There isn’t a single flat fee or “going rate.”

Gentry’s work is priced based on the scope and context of the engagement—event type, audience size, setting, level of customization, technical requirements, and the role he’s asked to play.

A private salon performance, a leadership retreat, and a conference keynote are different instruments, not interchangeable products.

If you’d like an accurate quote, the right next step is to complete the contact form. Once we understand the event, we will provide clear options aligned with the value delivered.

No — and that’s the point.

Gentry’s work isn’t built around props, costumes, or spectacle-for-its-own-sake. The experience is grounded in live interaction, judgment under uncertainty, and how people actually make decisions in real time.

Nothing relies on shock value or juvenile surprise. What audiences remember isn’t a trick; it’s the moment they realized they were wrong about how confident, perceptive, or rational they thought they were.

If you’re worried about anything feeling cheap, juvenile, or brand-damaging, this is the opposite of that.

That’s who it’s designed for.

Gentry’s core audience is engineers, executives, strategists, academics, founders, and professionals who are hard to impress and quick to tune out.

The work assumes intelligence. It doesn’t ask for belief, suspension of disbelief, or participation in nonsense. Skepticism actually makes the experience stronger — because the demonstrations work anyway.

People don’t feel manipulated. They feel seen.

It’s a hybrid — and intentionally so.

Depending on the context, Gentry’s work can function as:

• a true keynote with intellectual structure and takeaways

• a performance that happens to be deeply thoughtful

• or a live demonstration embedded inside a conference or offsite

What it never is: a talk padded with tricks, or tricks awkwardly justified as “lessons.”

The ideas are real. The entertainment is real. Neither is pretending to be the other.

No.

Audience interaction is voluntary, respectful, and handled with professional judgment. No humiliation, no “gotcha” moments, no forcing participation for laughs.

Participants consistently report feeling intrigued, respected, and surprisingly comfortable, even when the results are impossible.

Your guests leave feeling sharper, not exposed.

No, it does the opposite.

The experience is framed to elevate the host, the organizers, and the leadership team. It reinforces good judgment, curiosity, and intellectual confidence rather than undermining it.

Hiring Gentry signals discernment. It says:

“We chose something unusual, and we understood why it worked.”

That reflection lands back on you.

Only if your audience struggles with attention, influence, communication, or decision-making.

The themes are practical because they’re demonstrated, not theorized:

• how assumptions shape outcomes

• how confidence is constructed

• how perception outruns reality

• how influence works before anyone notices

These aren’t metaphors. They’re live experiences people reference afterward in meetings, debriefs, and internal conversations.

That’s a strength, not a risk.

Because the work relies on human cognition rather than language-heavy jokes, cultural references, or parochial humor, it travels extremely well.

Gentry has worked across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa — including environments where misreading a room actually matters.

The material adapts to people, not demographics.

Gentry’s performances work, even through a translator.

No.

The act is self-contained, flexible, and designed to work in real-world conditions, not idealized theater setups.

Minimal tech. Clear requirements. No fragile dependencies.

From boardrooms to ballrooms to trade-show floors, the logistics are deliberately simple so the focus stays on the experience.

Yes.

No hypnosis. No coercion. No psychological manipulation disguised as entertainment. No data capture. No invasive questioning.

Everything is transparent, voluntary, and framed as entertainment, with professionalism and consent baked in.

This is one reason large organizations and risk-averse planners return.

That depends on what you value.

If you want:

• background noise

• interchangeable talent

• something guests forget by dessert

There are cheaper options.

If you want:

• attention that holds

• moments people reference later

• an experience that could not have been swapped with another act

Then yes, this is what premium looks like.

Because it is.

Gentry’s work lives between categories, not because it’s unfocused, but because it’s built for people who don’t think in silos.

It’s not magic.
It’s not comedy.
It’s not motivational speaking.

It’s ideas made visible, through live human interaction, in a way that only works in person.

That’s why it can’t be streamed, templated, or copied.

“Will people actually talk about this afterward?”

Yes, and not in the vague “that was fun” way.

What people talk about are the moments where their assumptions failed. The point where something they were certain about quietly collapsed. The realization that they were influenced, predicted, or understood more accurately than they expected.

Those moments get referenced later:

• in breakout sessions

• at dinner

• during strategy conversations

• weeks later, in meetings

That’s because the experience isn’t decorative. It installs a shared reference point the group didn’t have before.

No, and it’s also not pretending psychology is more exact than it is.

Gentry is careful about what he claims and how it’s framed. The work draws on real principles from psychology, philosophy, and communication, but it never sells certainty where none exists.

That intellectual honesty matters to sophisticated audiences.

The astonishment comes not from exaggeration, but from watching probability, pattern, and perception collide in real time.

This is where it often works best.

Senior leaders are used to being catered to, flattered, or protected from uncertainty. Gentry’s work treats them like adults — curious, capable, and comfortable with ambiguity.

There’s no pandering and no pedestal. The experience invites leaders into the same human limits everyone else has, without diminishing authority or credibility.

Many executives appreciate that more than being “handled.”

No. It’s designed to align, not compete.

Because the work isn’t a fixed script, it can be shaped to reinforce your existing themes:

• clarity under pressure

• decision-making

• trust and credibility

• influence without force

• communication breakdowns

• confidence without arrogance

Rather than delivering a separate message, the performance becomes a demonstration of what you’re already trying to say.

Subtle doesn’t mean quiet.

The work scales because the moments are clear, visible, and emotionally legible, even when the mechanics are understated.

People don’t need to know how something happened to feel its impact. They just need to recognize that something meaningful occurred, and that others felt it too.

That recognition spreads through a room quickly.

That’s expected, and planned for.

The experience doesn’t depend on universal participation. Watching is participation. Noticing reactions is participation. Making predictions internally is participation.

Some of the strongest responses come from people who never set foot on stage.

No.

The work is framed so that the ideas are central, not the performer’s cleverness.

Gentry isn’t positioned as a genius doing impossible things to the audience. He’s positioned as a guide creating conditions where something interesting happens with them.

That distinction matters, especially to audiences who resent self-congratulation.

Often better.

People who think they know what’s coming tend to overcommit to the wrong explanations early. When those explanations fail, the experience becomes sharper, not duller.

The work doesn’t rely on novelty alone; it relies on miscalibration between confidence and outcome.

Experienced audiences feel that gap more acutely.

The takeaway is implicit, not preachy.

People leave with:

• more humility about certainty

• more curiosity about how influence works

• more awareness of how easily perception is shaped

Those aren’t slogans. They’re shifts in posture.

If you want explicit framing, that can be added. If you don’t, the experience stands on its own.

It’s contemporary in the way serious ideas are contemporary.

There are no dated references, no borrowed trends, no social-media gimmicks. The material isn’t trying to signal relevance. It simply is relevant, because it deals with how humans think under uncertainty.

That tends not to age quickly.

Less than most acts.

Because the structure is built around interaction rather than monologue, the experience adapts naturally to different rooms, cultures, and temperaments.

The performer doesn’t dominate the space; the room does.

That makes the work resilient.

It’s not ideal for:

• audiences that want passive background entertainment

• events built around spectacle or volume

• environments where curiosity is discouraged

• planners who want something indistinguishable from last year

If the goal is safety through sameness, this isn’t that.

Because it resists reduction.

Anything genuinely interesting does.

The easiest way to understand it is to see it, or to talk briefly about whether your audience is the kind that would enjoy being surprised without being condescended to.

Yes, because it doesn’t feel like a risk once it starts.

It feels like relief:

• relief that the room is engaged

• relief that people are leaning in

• relief that you chose something alive

That’s why the work keeps getting booked by people who have other options, and still choose this.