Johnny Wu is a celebrity mentalist, keynote speaker and TEDx presenter whose work sits at the intersection of psychology, attention and influence. Over the past decade he has performed and spoken for Google, Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Bvlgari and Richard Mille, and for 18 Fortune 500 companies. At Google headquarters he delivered a keynote to more than 700 executives, with Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler joining him on stage.
His TEDx talk, "Is Your Success Just an Illusion?" (TEDxBeverlyGrove, published on the official TEDx Talks channel), opens with Johnny holding the diploma his parents had waited his entire life to see, and feeding it into a paper shredder. It is not a magic act. It is an argument about the rules most people live by without ever choosing them, told through his own route from a boy who arrived in the United States without English and found connection through magic, to a career trusted by global brands.
On stage, Johnny does not sell a magic show. He stage directs one unforgettable moment for the audience that happens to be wrapped in mentalism, and uses it to make a point leaders remember: attention is the scarcest resource in any room, and the people who understand how it works are the ones who move others. His sessions are fully customised to the client's message, and audiences from executive offsites to 1,000 seat conferences leave having been read, surprised and, in more than one case, hypnotised.
Beyond the stage, Johnny has helped a Boys and Girls Club fundraiser raise 2.7 million dollars in ten minutes, has been called "the best I have ever seen" by Jamie Foxx, carries more than 2,000 five star reviews, and reaches an audience of over 480,000 followers across social media. He is based in Los Angeles and travels internationally.
