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Alex Moffat
Behavioural Science
Team Building
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Alex Moffat helps organisations unlock peak performance through neuroscience, leadership, and behavioural change. A NeuroLeadership Institute facilitator and award-winning cognitive illusionist, Alex works with Fortune 500 clients across a range of industries to rewire how teams think, connect, and adapt.
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Personal Development
Professional Development
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Alex Moffat is an award-winning international keynote speaker, NeuroLeadership Institute facilitator, and multi-award-winning magician who reveals how mindset shapes perception, decision-making, and performance.
A Certified Brain-Based Coach and HBDI practitioner, Alex spent over two decades leading teams through change and transformation in financial services across the UK and Australia. He began performing magic professionally at 16, winning multiple awards, with original illusions performed at the World Championships of Magic and featured on international television.
Alex combines neuroscience with the craft of magic, using live cognitive illusions to make invisible mental processes visible. Rather than simply discussing mindset, attention, or bias, he demonstrates them in real time, helping leaders and teams recognise how expectation and perception shape behaviour, and how those patterns can be reshaped to support better decisions and stronger collaboration.
Audiences leave with a clear understanding of why human connection functions as a biological performance system, not a soft skill. They gain practical tools for overriding the brain's resistance to change, and a clearer picture of the cognitive traps that undermine even high-performing teams.
For an audience that needs more than motivation, Alex offers a memorable, evidence-based route to lasting change.
Topics, sessions and talks
Alex Moffat demonstrates how the brain constructs reality long before conscious thought catches up, using cognitive illusions to show why two people can witness the same moment and walk away with entirely different interpretations. He unpacks how unconscious assumptions quietly shape conversations, decisions, and relationships, and how curiosity can loosen those mental maps. As AI takes over more routine tasks, attendees leave recognising empathy, perspective-taking, and trust as skills worth deliberately strengthening, with practical ways to sharpen communication and collaboration.
Alex Moffat reveals how attitudes, energy, and expectations spread through teams the same way emotions and behaviours are caught rather than taught. Drawing on the neuroscience of social contagion, he introduces the luck factor to prime optimism and openness, and contrasts growth and fixed mindsets in practice. Attendees see how collective attention and unconscious expectation quietly shape culture, often without anyone noticing what is really driving it.
Alex Moffat brings a volunteer on stage and reshapes their thinking so completely that it challenges assumptions about ownership, perception, and change itself. This high-energy session shows why the brain resists change by default and how to override that resistance, shifting from threat mode to reward mode in real time. Attendees leave with reframing tools that build resilience, sharpen decision-making, and help them adapt faster when circumstances keep shifting.
Alex Moffat examines how attention, bias, and mental shortcuts quietly shape decisions, even among high performers. Through live demonstrations of how the brain filters and misreads reality, he shows teams how perception can be tricked and how to catch it happening. Attendees come away with sharper mental models, calmer decision-making under pressure, and practical ways to boost clarity and critical thinking in their own roles.
Alex brings two decades of financial services leadership together with neuroscience credentials and world-class magic. For organisations navigating change or building high-performing teams, his interactive keynotes are personalised, relevant, and turn mindset theory into something audiences experience and remember.
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Alex Moffat uses live cognitive illusions — drawn from his background as a professional magician — to make invisible mental processes such as attention, bias, and perception visible in real time, grounding neuroscience concepts in direct audience experience rather than abstract explanation.
Alex Moffat's sessions cover the neuroscience of human connection and unconscious bias, cultural transformation through social contagion, and building mental agility through reframing and change resilience. He won Best Newcomer at The Speakers Awards 2026 and brings over two decades of leadership experience in financial services alongside a professional magic career that began at 16, with original illusions performed at the World Championships of Magic.
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