Alex Blackwood
Mentalist, mind reader, and creator of "Mind Craft"
5.00 of 5
Top rated!5 of 5
“Thanks Alex. It was a pleasure to have you with us.<br>Everybody was surprised, impressed and very happy”
Daniel Grieder
Global CEO, Tommy Hilfiger
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Strengthen your company’s mental abilities.
Speaker Alex Blackwood is the founder of “Mind Craft” and expert in all things body language and mentalism. Alex aligns your organization through his keynotes on mental strategies used to gain insight and enhance customer engagement and employee potential in your organization. Alex is an artistic, psychological expert who uses science and personal skills to maintain an advantage.
Why you should book speaker Alex Blackwood
He optimizes the use of the human mind. Alex uses his specialized skills through psychometrics, heuristics, non-verbal communication, and even suggestions. Using this applied science, Alex demonstrates the endless possibilities of an optimized organization through mental training.
He is an influencer. Speaker Alex Blackwood uses his skills to develop organizations continuously. He exhibits the science behind influence and persuasion that will increase your company's ROI and recognition.
As an experienced business leader, and one of the world's leading mentalists, Alex Blackwood, delivers live experiences that are hard to forget. Alex's mission is to inspire people to use what they have today to predict and create a better tomorrow. Alex is a multiple award-winning speaker, entertainer, and the creator of Mind Craft™, a specialized set of skills that celebrate quirks of the human mind. He demonstrates these on-stage and online to create stunning effects. He has no superpowers, but with unparalleled knowledge of his craft, Alex seamlessly makes it look that way.
Before taking up full-time speaking, Alex became an expert in the science of influence and persuasion while negotiating sizeable private equity deals for tech companies like E-bay and Oracle. He went on to master organizational design thinking while delivering transformation change projects for energy supermajors, managing teams in 42 countries. Alex created Mind Craft™ to combine his unique experience into a practical methodology. It is a framework to read people, predict future actions, and positively influence situations.
Alex Blackwood is based between Amsterdam & Ibiza. He speaks and performs globally.
He optimizes the use of the human mind. Alex uses his specialized skills through psychometrics, heuristics, non-verbal communication, and even suggestions. Using this applied science, Alex demonstrates the endless possibilities of an optimized organization through mental training.
He is an influencer. Speaker Alex Blackwood uses his skills to develop organizations continuously. He exhibits the science behind influence and persuasion that will increase your company's ROI and recognition.
As an experienced business leader, and one of the world's leading mentalists, Alex Blackwood, delivers live experiences that are hard to forget. Alex's mission is to inspire people to use what they have today to predict and create a better tomorrow. Alex is a multiple award-winning speaker, entertainer, and the creator of Mind Craft™, a specialized set of skills that celebrate quirks of the human mind. He demonstrates these on-stage and online to create stunning effects. He has no superpowers, but with unparalleled knowledge of his craft, Alex seamlessly makes it look that way.
Before taking up full-time speaking, Alex became an expert in the science of influence and persuasion while negotiating sizeable private equity deals for tech companies like E-bay and Oracle. He went on to master organizational design thinking while delivering transformation change projects for energy supermajors, managing teams in 42 countries. Alex created Mind Craft™ to combine his unique experience into a practical methodology. It is a framework to read people, predict future actions, and positively influence situations.
Alex Blackwood is based between Amsterdam & Ibiza. He speaks and performs globally.
Customer Reviews
5 of 5
“Thanks Alex. It was a pleasure to have you with us.<br>Everybody was surprised, impressed and very happy”
Daniel Grieder Global CEO, Tommy Hilfiger
5 of 5
“We had a great offsite with Alex’s talk as a key part. I was really impressed with Alex’s preparation and attention to detail, it made all of us feel special and that we had a bespoke performance.”
Emma Moloney General Counsel, Endemol Shine
5 of 5
“We engaged Alex to make our (medical device) product launch memorable and he performed a very entertaining show highlighting our product features and benefits. Customers were amazed and Alex brought fun and happiness in our scientific event, a great job.”
Laurence Raysigguier Marketing Manager, FujiFilm
Rated 5.00/5 based on 3 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Alex Blackwood:
Bespoke
Alex is a multiple award-winning entertainer, keynote speaker, and the creator of Mind Craft™, a methodology to read, predict, and influence people and situations. His career includes delivering global transformation change programs and private equity account executive. Alex and his team have designed custom events for executives and CEOs of multinational companies.
Audience Takeaways:
100% interactive, inspiring, and motivational.
Specific takeaways will be defined when scoping your particular organization's project.
Audience Takeaways:
100% interactive, inspiring, and motivational.
Specific takeaways will be defined when scoping your particular organization's project.
Keynote by speaker Alex Blackwood:
Mind Craft – The Power of Fresh Perspectives
An action-packed and fun-filled deep-dive into how belief systems are formed and how they can be changed. Fully interactive, peppered with exercises to demystify common limiting psychological phenomena like cognitive biases. New perspectives will appear and problems will be re-framed as opportunities, creating an astonishing and lasting impact.
Audience Takeaways:
Master the psychological techniques to thrive in a changing environment
Lead and empower successful teams
Identify opportunities in times of turmoil
Alex is creator of Mind Craft™, a methodology to read, predict and influence people and situations. Alex has also implemented transformational technology change programs for energy supermajors through the 2008 credit crunch, leading teams in 42 countries.
Audience Takeaways:
Master the psychological techniques to thrive in a changing environment
Lead and empower successful teams
Identify opportunities in times of turmoil
Alex is creator of Mind Craft™, a methodology to read, predict and influence people and situations. Alex has also implemented transformational technology change programs for energy supermajors through the 2008 credit crunch, leading teams in 42 countries.
Keynote by speaker Alex Blackwood:
The Path of Peak Persuasion
Alex created Mind Craft™, a methodology to read, predict, and influence people and situations. As a mentalist, Alex has studied NLP, communications and as a venture capital account executive, Alex mastered the science of persuasion and influence while raising
finance for pre-public technology companies including E-bay and Oracle.
Audience Takeaways:
Take control and be persuasive
Negotiate to win
Supercharge language with the techniques of suggestion and hypnosis
Delegates will walk away with practical and effective tools to increase their influence, persuasion, and sales numbers. They will learn techniques to take control, successfully negotiate and use verbal/body language to get the edge. Each skill will be demonstrated live in an exhilarating, 100% interactive, high-impact session.
finance for pre-public technology companies including E-bay and Oracle.
Audience Takeaways:
Take control and be persuasive
Negotiate to win
Supercharge language with the techniques of suggestion and hypnosis
Delegates will walk away with practical and effective tools to increase their influence, persuasion, and sales numbers. They will learn techniques to take control, successfully negotiate and use verbal/body language to get the edge. Each skill will be demonstrated live in an exhilarating, 100% interactive, high-impact session.
Keynote by speaker Alex Blackwood:
The Key to Quantum Communication
Content – Delegates will explore the personality measurements implemented by NASA to choose astronauts before peaking behind the curtain of their own and their colleagues’ personalities. This fully interactive, dynamic and fun session imparts serious tools to improve
collaboration in (virtual) workplaces.
Audience Takeaways:
Communicate effectively, both in-person and virtually
Understand different personalities
Increase team morale and productivity
Alex created Mind Craft™, a psychological methodology to read, predict and influence people and situations. As a mentalist, Alex has studied psychometrics, hypnosis, suggestion, communication. Alex implemented transformational technology change programs for energy supermajors through the 2008 credit crunch, leading teams in 42 countries.
collaboration in (virtual) workplaces.
Audience Takeaways:
Communicate effectively, both in-person and virtually
Understand different personalities
Increase team morale and productivity
Alex created Mind Craft™, a psychological methodology to read, predict and influence people and situations. As a mentalist, Alex has studied psychometrics, hypnosis, suggestion, communication. Alex implemented transformational technology change programs for energy supermajors through the 2008 credit crunch, leading teams in 42 countries.
Keynote by speaker Alex Blackwood:
Becoming Alex Blackwood
Alex created Mind Craft™, a psychological methodology to read, predict and influence people and situations. As a mentalist, Alex has studied psychometrics, hypnosis, suggestion, communication. Alex implemented transformational technology change programs for energy supermajors through the 2008 credit crunch, leading teams in 42 countries. As a venture capital account executive, Alex mastered the science of persuasion and influence while raising finance for pre-public technology companies including E-bay and Oracle.
Audience Takeaways:
Develop imagination and creativity
Discover limitless possibilities
Welcome change
Delegates will learn the unique story of Alex Blackwood’s journey from private equity sales to delivering global transformation projects in 42 countries to studying acting, comedy, magic, hypnosis, and mind-reading to become an award-winning international mentalist. This inspiring session is 100% interactive and peppered with Mind Craft™ demonstrations that will draw gasps and sometimes screams!
Audience Takeaways:
Develop imagination and creativity
Discover limitless possibilities
Welcome change
Delegates will learn the unique story of Alex Blackwood’s journey from private equity sales to delivering global transformation projects in 42 countries to studying acting, comedy, magic, hypnosis, and mind-reading to become an award-winning international mentalist. This inspiring session is 100% interactive and peppered with Mind Craft™ demonstrations that will draw gasps and sometimes screams!
