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Tom Pesce

Bring your event to life with Tom Pesce, award-winning magician, mentalist, and keynote speaker. Tom works with Fortune 500 companies and global brands to deliver custom-built, high-impact entertainment, earning standing ovations from clients including NASA, Google, and Deloitte.

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Tom Pesce, Speaker | Corporate Magician & Emcee
Tom Pesce

Tom Pesce

New York City, United States

Typical fee range

$11k–25k

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Tom Pesce's biography

At a glance

  • Top corporate magician and mentalist for major brands
  • Former educator turned conference emcee, speaker, and performer
  • Custom-built shows aligned to company mission and culture
Tom Pesce spent two decades as a professional educator before becoming one of America's most sought-after corporate magicians, mentalists, and conference emcees. After earning multiple graduate degrees in education and administrative leadership, Tom traded the classroom for the stage, and built a client roster that includes Formula One, NASA, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, BMW, Amazon, NBC, and Google. He has toured nationally as a headline act for Princess Cruises and performs regularly at some of the country's most prestigious venues, including the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and the Chicago Magic Lounge. Tom's corporate performances are custom-built around each organisation's mission and culture, blending world-class sleight-of-hand, mentalism, and clean humor that lands for even the most discerning audiences. Whether delivering a headline stage show, working the room during a reception, or anchoring a multi-day conference as emcee, Tom's work connects and amazes. He also operates as a keynote speaker, using illusion and storytelling to reinforce themes of leadership, culture, and human connection in ways that translate back to Monday morning. Teams leave with a shared experience powerful enough to reshape how they see what's possible and a story they'll be telling for years.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Creating The Culture: What Elite Organizations Do Differently
Tom Pesce unpacks what separates elite organizations from the rest, and why the answer has less to do with strategy than with culture. Drawing on illusion, psychology, and two decades of performance experience, Tom shows leaders how to identify and unlock the gifts already present in their teams, build genuine connection, and develop the kind of self-assurance that drives collective momentum. The result is an organization that doesn't just weather economic uncertainty — it dominates its field.
Enhancing Student Performance Through Human Connection
Tom Pesce challenges educators to step back from the pressure of standards and reconnect with what makes them irreplaceable. Drawing on his twenty years in the classroom, Tom helps teachers and administrators identify their individual strengths, reignite their sense of purpose, and design experiences that students carry with them long after they leave. Part keynote, part masterclass, Own Your Magic gives educators practical tools to shift school culture, deepen student connection, and show up as the transformational figure their students need.
From Burnt Out To Brilliant: Reignite Your Passion, Reclaim Your Purpose
Teacher morale is at an all-time low and burnout is driving educators out of the profession in record numbers. Tom Pesce — veteran teacher, keynote speaker, and professional entertainer — knows the feeling firsthand. Drawing on his own near-exit from education and a complete reinvention, Tom combines magic, humor, and evidence-based strategies to help teaching teams rediscover their purpose, protect their wellbeing, and understand the lasting impact they have on every student in their care.
Shaping Your Legacy: The Power Of Purpose-Driven Leadership
Tom Pesce draws on eight years of student leadership experience, two graduate degrees, and a career performing for Fortune 500 audiences to tackle a question most leadership programs sidestep: what's the difference between being successful and being significant? Through magic, humor, and hard-won personal insight, Tom gives student leaders the tools to cultivate self-leadership, leverage failure as fuel, and lead from wherever they stand — leaving with a clear sense of purpose and the practical steps to act on it.
Creating The Culture: How Elite Teams Win Together
Tom Pesce has worked with the New York Giants, the University of Minnesota football team, and elite organisations across industries to develop one unshakeable conviction: most teams already know what to do — the gap is in the doing. Drawing on magic, storytelling, and proven frameworks collected across twenty years in education and performance, Tom helps coaches and team leaders build cultures where every individual knows their worth, connections run deep, and collective confidence drives results on and off the field.

Why we recommend booking Tom

Tom Pesce is a distinctive corporate entertainer who custom-designs every routine to reflect the event's message and culture. His stagecraft is world-class, his crowd work disarms even the most sceptical rooms, and his professionalism from first contact to final bow is without question.

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Testimonials

That was bloody insane! I'm speechless

Jenson Button

Formula One World Champion, Formula One

I can't believe it. How did you do it? You had all 2,500 people on their feet!

Eric Yuan

CEO, Zoom

Tom's keynote took our team from transactional to transformational in under 60 minutes! Utterly outstanding.

Aaron Zeigler

CEO, Zeigler Automotive Group

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How do I book Tom Pesce for my next event?
Email tom.pesce@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Tom's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.

Tom Pesce builds sessions around the integration of live magic and mentalism with evidence-based content, using illusion as a demonstration device to anchor leadership and culture themes rather than as standalone entertainment.

What is Tom Pesce's speaking style like?
Tom Pesce builds sessions around the integration of live magic and mentalism with evidence-based content, using illusion as a demonstration device to anchor leadership and culture themes rather than as standalone entertainment.

Tom Pesce builds sessions around the integration of live magic and mentalism with evidence-based content, using illusion as a demonstration device to anchor leadership and culture themes rather than as standalone entertainment.

What topics does Tom Pesce specialise in?
Tom Pesce speaks on elite organisational culture, educator burnout and renewal, and student performance through human connection. He spent two decades as a classroom educator before building a corporate performance and speaking roster that includes NASA, Google, Deloitte, and Formula One.

Tom Pesce speaks on elite organisational culture, educator burnout and renewal, and student performance through human connection. He spent two decades as a classroom educator before building a corporate performance and speaking roster that includes NASA, Google, Deloitte, and Formula One.

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