TalkMagic London
Fergus Flanagan and Neb Maciver are award-winning professional magicians and motivational speakers who help London audiences rethink creativity, pressure, resilience, storytelling and leadership.
Beyond the usual motivational talk
A motivational speech can create a powerful feeling in the room. The harder task is giving that feeling somewhere useful to go.
TalkMagic begins with an unusual question: what does a professional magician need to become exceptional at their job? Behind every finished performance sits an extraordinary combination of creativity, resourcefulness, resilience, anxiety management, storytelling and audience awareness.
Fergus and Neb bring those transferable skills into the corporate world. Their keynote does not teach people how to perform magic tricks. Instead, live magic provides a memorable lens through which audiences can examine their own habits, assumptions and self-imposed barriers.
For organisations comparing Motivational Speakers London has to offer, TalkMagic provides something genuinely different: an entertaining experience with practical relevance, emotional honesty and ideas people continue discussing after the event.
Watch TalkMagic
Discover how Fergus and Neb combine live magic, human insight and high-energy performance to create an experience audiences remember.
The skills behind the impossible
Move beyond waiting for inspiration. Discover how curiosity, constraints and deliberate action can unlock original thinking.
See possibility in limited time, imperfect information and the materials already available.
Develop a more constructive response to mistakes, setbacks and ideas that do not work first time.
Make ideas emotional, engaging and memorable so that people understand why they matter.
Explore how professional performers prepare for pressure and remain present when attention is on them.
Combine presence, authenticity and audience awareness to become a more engaging communicator and leader.
Made for London event rooms
London events compete for attention. Delegates have heard polished presentations, seen impressive stages and sat through more slides than they care to remember. TalkMagic changes the energy immediately.
The combination of exceptional live magic, honest personal stories and unexpected professional insight creates genuine curiosity. Audiences are not simply told to think differently. They experience what a different perspective feels like.
The keynote works particularly well for conferences, leadership events, company kick-offs, culture programmes, sales meetings and team away days across central and Greater London. It can open an event with momentum, close it with emotional impact or create a shared turning point within a wider programme.
Fergus and Neb work with event organisers and production teams to understand the audience, event theme and desired outcome while keeping the proprietary keynote content protected.
Credibility without corporate predictability
Fergus Flanagan and Neb Maciver are best friends, award-winning performers and co-founders of TalkMagic. Fergus was named Virtual Magician of the Year by The Magic Circle. Neb has performed at more than 2,000 events around the world.
Together, they have delivered experiences for organisations including Amazon, Google, BMW, HSBC, KPMG, Linklaters and TUI. They have worked with audiences ranging from C-suite leaders and international conference delegates to graduate cohorts and established teams.
The keynote is designed to create more than a temporary emotional high. Audiences leave with a distinctive framework for examining how they generate ideas, respond to uncertainty, communicate under pressure and interpret the limits they place on themselves.
The precise content and exercises remain proprietary to TalkMagic. That protects the surprise, integrity and emotional impact of the live experience.
If you are also considering a more participative format, explore the Think Like a Magician workshop. For audiences of 100 to 10,000, view the interactive keynote format.
It is an interactive business keynote delivered by two professional magicians. Audiences experience extraordinary live magic, but the subject is the transferable professional mindset behind it.
No. Fergus and Neb explore creativity, resourcefulness, resilience, storytelling, anxiety management and performance. The mechanics of magic tricks are not the product.
Yes. TalkMagic learns about your audience, event theme and objectives beforehand, then shapes the framing and emphasis while protecting the proprietary content.
The keynote is designed for audiences from around 100 to 10,000 people. The staging, interaction and delivery are adapted to suit the room and production environment.
Yes. TalkMagic can work at conference venues, hotels, theatres and company offices across central and Greater London.
The relationship between Fergus and Neb creates pace, contrast, warmth and genuine chemistry on stage. Their different perspectives allow ideas to be explored through conversation, storytelling and live interaction.
Tell us about your date, venue, audience size and event objectives. We will help you decide whether TalkMagic is the right fit.
