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Modern Mental Comedy — Corporate Gala & Banquet Headliner

Price: $6,075.00

Number of Performers: 1

Duration: 2 hours

Extra Hourly Rate: $1,350.00

ENTERPRISE MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS: Engineered for Fortune 500 conventions, annual banquets, and executive summits, Elijah Edwards provides enterprise meeting planners with two distinct, headline-caliber mainstage experiences—giving you the exact dynamic your run-of-show demands. CHOOSE YOUR MAINSTAGE HEADLINER: 1. MODERN MENTAL COMEDY (The Celebratory Gala Headliner) The definitive after-dinner celebration. Elijah merges high-octane comedy hypnosis, razor-sharp mentalism, and whole-room participation into a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud production. Volunteers are elevated as the celebrated stars of the evening with zero cringe, zero humiliation, and 100% HR-safe execution. 2. NOTHING IS RANDOM (The Cerebral Theatrical Mentalism Showcase) A sophisticated, mind-bending stage production deconstructing human intuition, non-verbal communication, and decision architecture. Tailored specifically for executive offsites, VIP donor galas, and discerning convention audiences who demand intellectual stimulation paired with world-class showmanship. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE DUAL-MAINSTAGE MULTIPLIER (DAY-TO-NIGHT CONTINUITY) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Why hire separate talent for daytime education and evening entertainment? Elijah’s dual accreditation as a Certified Professional Speaker and Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) unlocks seamless day-to-night flexibility: • Morning General Session: Deliver the opening keynote ("The Edwards Effect LIVE") or facilitate an Executive Wellness Breakout to prime attendees for peak performance. • Evening Gala Banquet: Transition the room into an electric celebration with "Modern Mental Comedy" or "Nothing Is Random." • Total Agenda Continuity: One world-class partner anchors both mainstage environments, eliminating duplicate talent airfare, separate hotel room blocks, and multiple agency fees to save up to 60% in overhead. ENTERPRISE COMPLIANCE & AV LOGISTICS: • Commercial General Liability Policy standard (venue COI issued upon booking). • Plug-and-play AV footprint: Seamlessly integrates with in-house hotel and staging crews (Encore, PSAV). • Dual-Accredited Authority: Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker. • Backed by 27.6M+ verified digital impressions and a proven national enterprise track record.

Interactive Corporate Keynotes & Behavioral Psychology: The Edwards Effect LIVE

Price: $7,425.00

Number of Performers: 1

Duration: 2 hours

Extra Hourly Rate: $1,350.00

INTERACTIVE CORPORATE KEYNOTES & BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE EDWARDS EFFECT LIVE High-stakes conferences and annual leadership summits cannot afford passive lectures, rehearsed platitudes, or slide-deck fatigue. Elijah Edwards bridges applied behavioral science, clinical subconscious conditioning, and headline-caliber stagecraft to deliver an unforgettable general session experience. Holding dual credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker, Elijah moves beyond theory to provide live, somatic demonstrations of how perception, non-verbal communication, and neural discipline dictate executive execution. Grounded in real-world transformation—anchored by his own self-directed 200-pound weight loss and total lifestyle redesign—Elijah provides corporate audiences with living proof of habit architecture and mental discipline under pressure. Attendees don’t sit passively; they actively participate in an intellectually charged, high-energy environment that systematically exposes cognitive blind spots and re-architects peak performance across entire organizations. Signature Keynote & Breakout Programming 1. The Edwards Effect LIVE (Opening General Session Keynote | 45–75 Minutes) Designed as the definitive tone-setter for enterprise conventions and national conferences. Elijah explores the hidden psychological mechanics behind how teams make decisions, perceive authority, and execute collective goals. Perceptual Recalibration: Interactive stage demonstrations revealing how selective attention and cognitive confirmation biases derail executive strategy. Non-Verbal Intelligence & Influence: Decoding subconscious behavioral cues to elevate leadership presence, negotiation leverage, and high-trust team collaboration. The Neuro-Architecture of Execution: Practical cognitive tools to dismantle default complacency, eliminate friction, and maintain unshakeable focus in volatile markets. 2. Executive Wellness & Peak Performance Intensives (High-Impact Breakout Tracks) Led by Elijah’s clinical credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt), these intensive breakouts deliver non-pharmacological subconscious conditioning protocols that attendees can apply immediately: Acute Stress Inversion: Real-time somatic and neuro-vascular downshifting techniques to reduce cortisol spikes and relieve tension headaches in minutes—directly from conference seating. Sleep Architecture & Jet Lag Mastery: Tactical protocols engineered for traveling executives and road warriors to overcome irregular schedules, shut down racing thoughts in hotel rooms, and optimize REM/deep sleep cycles. Rapid Habit Extinction Protocols: Targeted conditioning strategies to address metabolic discipline, stress-eating, and smoking/nicotine/vaping cessation through subconscious habit disruption. The Subconscious Structure of Discipline: Applied neuro-conditioning frameworks to conquer procrastination, automate executive focus, and enter sustained flow states on demand. 3. Enterprise Master of Ceremonies & Run-of-Show Continuity Transform a disconnected schedule of disjointed speakers into an integrated, seamless conference narrative. Elijah provides razor-sharp room calibration, executive speaker introductions, and precise pacing that keeps complex programs moving on schedule while maintaining peak audience energy. The Dual-Mainstage Multiplier (Day-to-Night Talent Consolidation) Corporate event planners typically incur massive administrative overhead and budget waste by hiring separate providers for daytime education and evening entertainment. Elijah solves the entire 24-hour conference lifecycle through a unified, dual-mainstage partnership: Morning / Day: Deliver the opening keynote (The Edwards Effect LIVE), facilitate executive wellness tracks, or direct the room as Master of Ceremonies. Evening: Transform the ballroom into an electric after-dinner celebration by headlining the gala banquet with Modern Mental Comedy (high-energy comedy hypnosis and mentalism) or Nothing Is Random (cerebral theatrical mentalism). Budget Optimization: Consolidating day and night programming under a single master service agreement eliminates duplicate flights, secondary hotel room blocks, ground transit, and redundant agency fees—saving planners up to 60% in total production and logistics overhead. Enterprise Compliance & Production Standards Comprehensive Risk Mitigation: Standard Commercial General Liability policy automatically active; customized Certificate of Insurance (COI) naming your organization and venue issued promptly upon contract execution. 100% HR-Safe Dignity Guarantee: Built entirely for corporate environments. Zero embarrassing volunteer stunts, no vulgar language, and total executive respect. Participants leave the stage feeling celebrated, empowered, and elevated before their peers. Turnkey AV Footprint: Rapid, stress-free technical coordination designed for immediate compatibility with in-house hotel and conference staging providers (Encore, PSAV). Standard requirements: one broadcast-quality wireless handheld or headset microphone, house sound reinforcement, and standard stage wash lighting. Proven Cultural Reach: Dual-credentialed authority (CHt, Certified Professional Speaker) supported by an audience-verified track record of 27.6M+ impressions across global digital channels and national corporate tours.

Executive Wellness Intensives: Applied Subconscious Conditioning & Peak Performance Seminars

Price: $6,750.00

Number of Performers: 1

Duration: 2 hours

Extra Hourly Rate: $1,350.00

EXECUTIVE WELLNESS INTENSIVES: APPLIED SUBCONSCIOUS CONDITIONING & PEAK PERFORMANCE Most enterprise wellness programs suffer a 90% abandonment rate for one reason: they attempt to solve deep neurological burnout with passive PowerPoint slides, generic mindfulness breathing apps, and surface-level platitudes. Elijah Edwards replaces wellness theory with immediate neuro-somatic results. Holding legitimate clinical credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) alongside his designation as a Certified Professional Speaker, Elijah delivers interactive, non-pharmacological subconscious conditioning intensives engineered specifically for high-stress corporate environments, national sales forces, and executive leadership teams. This is not academic speculation. Having engineered a self-directed 200-pound weight loss and total metabolic overhaul from scratch, Elijah brings living, biological proof of how neural rewiring, habit architecture, and self-mastery actually function under intense pressure. Attendees do not take passive notes—they experience immediate, measurable physiological shifts right from their seats. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE 4 CLINICAL EXECUTIVE MODULES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Deliverable as 60-to-90-minute standalone breakout intensives, rotating executive tracks, or structured half-day leadership retreats: 1. ACUTE STRESS INVERSION & NEURO-VASCULAR DOWNSHIFTING Engineered for boardrooms, trading floors, and high-stakes negotiation teams under chronic load: • Rapid Parasympathetic Activation: Teaches attendees how to manually downshift nervous system arousal, crushing acute cortisol spikes in under three minutes. • Tension Headache & Somatic Strain Relief: Clinical neuro-vascular techniques to dissipate stress-induced cranial and neck tension without over-the-counter medication. • Crisis Poise Conditioning: Anchors psychological calm during high-friction corporate restructuring, hostile negotiations, and quarterly deadline crunches. 2. SLEEP ARCHITECTURE & JET LAG MASTERY FOR ROAD WARRIORS Designed for traveling executives, field directors, and global teams living out of suitcases: • The Subconscious "Off-Switch": Targeted self-induction protocols to silence racing executive thought patterns and business anxiety in unfamiliar hotel rooms. • Circadian Compression: Accelerates jet-lag recovery across multi-zone travel without sleeping pills or morning grogginess. • Deep-Wave Sleep Optimization: Somatic conditioning that maximizes restorative REM and slow-wave cycles, ensuring peak cognitive performance the next morning. 3. RAPID HABIT EXTINCTION & METABOLIC DISCIPLINE Subconscious habit disruption targeting the root neural loops behind executive burnout and health decay: • Clinical Cessation Protocols: Immediate subconscious disruption patterns for rapid smoking, vaping, and nicotine dependency. • Stress-Induced Eating Interruption: Breaks the neurological trigger-reward loop governing late-night binge snacking, airport junk food, and energy-depleting sugar crashes. • Habit Architecture: Anchors non-negotiable daily health rituals into the subconscious operating system so discipline becomes automatic rather than willpower-dependent. 4. THE SUBCONSCIOUS ARCHITECTURE OF DISCIPLINE & FLOW Translating applied behavioral psychology into raw organizational output: • Defeating Executive Procrastination: Neutralizes subconscious perfectionism and fear-of-failure loops that stall high-stakes strategic initiatives. • On-Demand Cognitive Flow: Accesses sustained hyper-focus and eliminates digital distraction fatigue during deep-work blocks. • Identity Alignment: Synchronizes an executive's subconscious self-concept with enterprise revenue targets and high-visibility leadership demands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE DUAL-MAINSTAGE MULTIPLIER (DAY-TO-NIGHT CONTINUITY) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Solve your entire conference agenda with a single world-class partner: • Day Integration: Elijah conducts high-impact Executive Wellness Intensives or delivers the opening morning keynote ("The Edwards Effect LIVE"). • Night Transformation: Elijah headlines your evening gala banquet with "Modern Mental Comedy" (high-energy clean hypnosis & mentalism) or "Nothing Is Random" (cerebral theatrical mentalism). • Slash Overhead by Up to 60%: Eliminates duplicate speaker flights, secondary hotel room blocks, ground transit, and redundant agency fees under one master service agreement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ENTERPRISE COMPLIANCE & RISK MITIGATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Dual-Accredited Authority: Led by a verified Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker—ensuring psychological rigor, physical safety, and corporate-appropriate delivery. • General Liability Policy: Comprehensive coverage active standard; custom Certificate of Insurance (COI) issued immediately upon booking. • 100% HR-Safe Dignity Guarantee: Zero cringe, zero embarrassing volunteer exposure, and zero religious or dogmatic messaging. Pure professional empowerment. • Plug-and-Play Production: Integrates seamlessly with hotel AV (Encore, PSAV). Requires only standard house sound and a professional wireless mic. • Proven Scale: Backed by 27.6M+ verified digital impressions across national touring audiences.

Elijah Edwards | Keynote Speaker and Corporate Headliner

Based in Liberty Center OH

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Mainstage Keynotes • Modern Mental Comedy • Theatrical Mentalism • Executive Wellness Intensives

Executive Overview

Elijah Edwards bridges applied behavioral psychology, subconscious conditioning, and headline-caliber stagecraft to deliver transformative experiences for Fortune 500 banquets, annual conventions, and executive retreats worldwide.

Holding dual credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker, Elijah permanently retires outdated tropes, amateur parlor tricks, and awkward volunteer gags. In their place, he delivers an intellectually stimulating, high-energy environment where audience members are celebrated as the heroes of the experience.

Elijah’s mastery of human behavior is grounded in real-world transformation. Having personally engineered a self-directed 200-pound weight loss and complete lifestyle redesign, he brings an authentic, visceral understanding of habit architecture, neural discipline, and peak mental performance to every stage. He doesn't just present high-level concepts about human potential—he demonstrates them in real time.

From Las Vegas and Dallas to London, Dubai, and Singapore, Elijah commands mainstages with absolute executive poise, pristine comedic timing, and zero slide-deck fatigue. Whether delivering an opening general session keynote, headlining an annual awards gala, or facilitating high-impact executive wellness breakouts, Elijah provides meeting planners with a seamless, turnkey solution that leaves corporate audiences electrified and aligned.

Signature Enterprise Programming

The Edwards Effect LIVE (Interactive General Session Keynote): An experiential opening keynote that shatters complacency, exposes cognitive blind spots, and primes attendees for high-performance execution. Elijah demonstrates how subtle perceptual shifts unlock radical breakthroughs in leadership, non-verbal communication, and collective focus.

Modern Mental Comedy (Marquee Banquet & Gala Headliner): Elijah’s celebrated after-dinner production. A masterclass in audience calibration blending clean comedy hypnosis, mentalism, and whole-room participation. Fast-paced, hysterically funny, and 100% corporate-safe.

Nothing Is Random (Theatrical Mentalism Showcase): A cerebral, mind-bending stage experience exploring intuition, decision architecture, and hidden behavioral dynamics. Engineered specifically for executive retreats, VIP summits, and discerning donor banquets.

Executive Wellness & Peak Performance Intensives (Breakout Tracks): Practical, non-pharmacological subconscious conditioning sessions covering acute stress inversion, tension headache relief, sleep architecture for road warriors, and rapid habit extinction (including nicotine/vaping cessation and metabolic discipline).

The Corporate Event Planner Advantage

The Complete Day-to-Night Multiplier: Solve your entire 24-hour conference agenda with a single world-class partner. Pair a morning general session keynote or wellness intensive with an evening headlining banquet show, reducing duplicate airfares, ground transit, and hotel accommodations by up to 60%.

Dual-Accredited Authority: Delivered by a legitimate Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker—ensuring psychological rigor, physical safety, and corporate-appropriate language.

100% HR-Safe Dignity Guarantee: Pure professional empowerment. No embarrassing stunts, no awkward exposure, and zero vulgarity. Executive leadership and team members remain in total dignity throughout the performance.

Turnkey Staging & Minimal Overhead: Designed for rapid integration with in-house hotel and conference AV crews (Encore, PSAV, in-house staging). Minimal technical footprint with maximum room impact.

Frequently Asked Questions for Corporate Committees

Is the performance appropriate and safe for corporate teams?

Completely. Elijah's productions are built from the ground up for corporate and enterprise environments. Volunteers are treated with absolute respect, elevated in front of their peers, and leave the stage feeling empowered. There is zero humiliation, coarse language, or awkward HR exposure.

What qualifications and protections does Elijah carry?

Elijah holds verified credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) and Certified Professional Speaker. Every booking is backed by a standard $1,000,000 Commercial General Liability policy, with venue-specific Certificates of Insurance (COI) issued upon contract execution.

Can we combine multiple sessions across a multi-day conference?

Yes. Elijah frequently delivers an opening morning keynote (The Edwards Effect LIVE), facilitates focused afternoon breakouts (Executive Wellness Intensives), and headlines the final evening banquet (Modern Mental Comedy or Nothing Is Random), offering complete run-of-show continuity under a single vendor agreement.

What are the staging and AV requirements?

Elijah's technical rider is ultra-flexible and venue-friendly. Requirements typically consist of a high-quality wireless handheld or headset microphone, standard house PA system, professional stage wash lighting, and a clear performance area. Scalable from intimate 20-person executive offsites to 3,000+ attendee convention halls.

Enterprise Credentials & Track Record

Standard $1,000,000 General Liability Policy (COI delivered directly upon booking)

Dual-Certified: Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) & Certified Professional Speaker

27.6M+ Verified Digital Impressions across social channels

Trusted by Fortune 500 divisions, luxury resort properties, and national trade associations

Global tour history spanning Las Vegas, Dallas, London, Dubai, Sydney, and Singapore

Scalable 30, 60, and 90-minute formats with complete multi-day master of ceremonies