Blake Vogt

Creativity Keynote Speaker on Innovation, Entertainment, Problem Solving, Experimentation & Thinking Differently

Expert on

  • Creativity
  • Innovation
  • Entertainment
  • Change
  • Inspirational
  • Motivational

Fee Range

$20,000–$30,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

Blake Vogt is a magician, inventor and keynote speaker who has built his career around one question: How do you turn an impossible idea into something real?

For more than a decade, Blake has worked behind the scenes creating original magic and illusions for some of the biggest names in entertainment, including David Copperfield and David Blaine. His creative work has also contributed to the Now You See Me films, Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp, and numerous other major entertainment productions.

Blake’s own performing career has taken him around the world. He was a semifinalist on America’s Got Talent, has appeared four times on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, performed twice on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and has appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Today Show. He currently performs as a Featured Guest Entertainer for Disney Cruise Line, presenting his original magic in their 1,000-seat theaters.

But the part of Blake’s career that fascinates him most is not simply performing impossible things. It is figuring out how to create them in the first place.

That became the foundation for his keynote, Creating the Impossible.

When David Copperfield was considering hiring Blake, he asked what good ideas Blake could promise to bring to his team. Blake replied, “I promise you zero good ideas. But I promise I’ll be the guy who never runs out of bad ideas.” That answer got him hired.

Today, Blake uses that philosophy to challenge the way audiences think about creativity. Through storytelling, audience participation and astonishing original magic, he demonstrates why great ideas often begin as bad ones, why failure and experimentation are necessary parts of creativity, and why the people willing to explore seemingly ridiculous ideas are often the ones who discover something extraordinary.

The result is an experience that combines the energy and entertainment of a world-class magic show with a genuinely different perspective on creativity, innovation and turning ideas into reality.

Speaker Videos

CREATING THE IMPOSSIBLE

What if the secret to having more great ideas is being willing to have more bad ones?

When David Copperfield was considering hiring Blake Vogt to join his creative team, he asked Blake a simple question: “What good ideas do you promise you will bring to my team if I hire you?” Blake answered, “I promise you zero good ideas. But I promise I’ll be the guy who never runs out of bad ideas.”

That answer got him hired.

It also became the creative philosophy that has guided Blake throughout a career inventing magic and illusions for David Copperfield, David Blaine, the Now You See Me films, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and other major entertainment productions.

In Creating the Impossible, Blake takes audiences behind the scenes of that unusual career and explores what actually happens between “I have an idea” and “we made the impossible happen.”

This isn’t a traditional keynote with a few magic tricks added. Blake uses original, world-class magic throughout the presentation to demonstrate the creative process in real time. The audience doesn’t just hear about creativity. They experience it.

Blake explores why we often kill ideas too early, why experimentation and failure are essential parts of innovation, and why the willingness to pursue an idea that initially sounds ridiculous can lead somewhere no one expected.

Audiences leave with a new perspective on creativity: stop waiting for the perfect idea, become comfortable generating imperfect ones, experiment sooner, and stay curious long enough to discover what an idea could become.

Creating the Impossible is part keynote, part world-class magic show and part live creativity experiment. It is designed to leave an audience amazed, energized and looking at their own ideas differently.

INVENTING MAGIC

Step inside the mind of magician and creator Blake Vogt for an unforgettable show of wonder, amazement and completely original magic.

Inventing Magic features illusions audiences won’t see anywhere else in the world, each created and handcrafted by Blake himself. Rather than simply presenting a collection of tricks, Blake invites the audience into the inventive process behind the magic.

One of the signature moments of the show happens when the audience helps Blake invent a brand-new magic trick live onstage, which he then performs moments later. No two shows are ever exactly the same, and what happens during that performance will never happen again.

Blake’s original magic has filled 1,000-seat theaters for Disney Cruise Line and is designed to deliver a large-scale theatrical experience with an exceptionally travel-friendly production.

THINK LIKE A MAGICIAN

Magicians spend their lives solving a strange kind of problem: accomplishing something everyone else believes is impossible.

Blake Vogt has spent his career doing exactly that, both onstage and behind the scenes creating magic for David Copperfield, David Blaine, the Now You See Me films, Marvel and other major productions.

In Think Like a Magician, Blake reveals how magicians approach problems differently. Instead of beginning with what is practical, they begin with the impossible outcome they want to create and work backward.

Through astonishing live magic, stories and audience participation, Blake challenges audiences to question assumptions, change perspectives and search for solutions in places others overlook. Attendees leave with a playful but practical approach to creative problem solving and a powerful question to bring back to their own work: What would we try if we didn’t already believe it couldn’t be done?