Jonathan Pritchard
Speaking

Your audience will leave seeing something they can't unsee.

Jonathan Pritchard is a mentalist with 30 years on stage and 15,000 performances. He reads rooms for a living. When he brings that to a keynote, the effect is more than entertainment; it's a fundamental shift in how your people think.

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Advisor
Author
Mentalist

Past audiences include
BP
State Farm
United Airlines
Pure Storage
1871 Chicago
The Experience

Not a talk.
A demonstration.

Most keynotes are information delivery. Jonathan's are different in kind, not just in quality.

He opens by doing something the audience can't explain. Then he explains exactly how he did it — and why the same mechanism is running your organization's strategy, communication, or sales process without anyone noticing.

By the end, your people aren't just informed. They're seeing their own assumptions from the outside for the first time. That's the shift that changes behavior.

It works because 30 years of live performance has made it impossible to fake. A room full of people tells you, in real time, whether you're right. Jonathan has been in that room 15,000 times.

"The skills that work on stage work in the boardroom too — and in that context, they're worth considerably more."
Signature Talks

Three talks.
All built around one idea.

Leadership · Sales · Strategy

Every Stalled Strategy Has a Tell

The most expensive problems in business don't announce themselves. They hide in assumptions everyone agreed to stop questioning. Jonathan demonstrates (live, in the room) how the same mechanism that fools an audience fools a leadership team.
Audience leaves with
A specific diagnostic question they can apply to any stalled initiative the same day.
Technology · Innovation · AI

Dividing by Zero

AI is a force multiplier. What it multiplies is entirely up to you. If you're operating on a flawed foundational assumption, AI will help you execute against the wrong thing faster than ever. This talk reframes the AI conversation from "which tools" to "what are you actually bringing."
Audience leaves with
A framework for auditing the human input before pointing AI at any problem.
Sales · Communication · Teams

Read The Room

Most people are broadcasting exactly what they need, and almost nobody is listening. This talk teaches the specific observational skills that separate the people who read rooms from the people who just occupy them.
Audience leaves with
Three immediately applicable techniques for reading what people mean vs. what they say.
Results

The outcomes are consistent because the problems are, too.

State Farm rated Jonathan the #1 professional skills teacher for 3 consecutive years in Chicago.
State Farm
Pure Storage — a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader serving 64% of Fortune 500 companies — saw millions in additional revenue from repositioned communication following his engagement.
Pure Storage
Founders Jonathan worked with at 1871 Chicago landed $1M+ in funding after applying his communication frameworks.
1871 Chicago
About Jonathan

30 years reading rooms. Every kind of room.

Jonathan Pritchard has spent 30 years studying how people think, decide, and change their minds; first across 15,000 live mentalism performances, then in boardrooms with Fortune 500 executives.

A five-time author and advisor to founders and executive teams, he brings a lens no other speaker in the room has: he has stood in front of a live audience every month for decades and tested whether his ideas about human behavior actually work.

They do.

About Jonathan

Let's talk about what your audience needs to walk away knowing.

Every presentation is built for the specific audience and outcome. No off-the-shelf decks.