CORPORATE MENTALIST

TAMPA CORPORATE MENTALIST KEITH KONG

Interactive. Unforgettable. Unlike anything your guests have ever experienced.

Keith Kong is an award-winning mentalist, creating high-impact experiences for corporate events, conferences, galas, and private celebrations throughout Florida and nationwide. He helps event organizers who struggle with engagement turn a room of polite attendees into a room of people leaning in, gasping, and talking about it for the rest of the night.

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WHO HE IS

One of the Best Mentalists in Tampa, and He Can Prove It

Best is a strong claim, so here is the evidence. Keith Kong won Season 7 of Penn & Teller: Fool Us on The CW, a show built specifically to test performers against two of the most knowledgeable magicians alive. He has performed at TEDx. He was the on-camera talent for the Florida Lottery's Magic of the Holidays campaign, filmed by PPK right here in Tampa.

Keith has performed professionally for 21 years, and the Tampa Bay area is a regular part of his map. When Clearwater was hit by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton within a two-week span in 2024, Keith performed at hurricane relief events for the community. His client list includes the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Red Bull, Kellogg's, Universal Studios, Pfizer, and more.

When Gulf Coast companies need entertainment that holds the room, Keith is who they call. Because he is based in Orlando, Tampa events involve minimal travel costs compared to booking an out-of-state performer.

Corporate Stage Shows

Keith Kong is a mentalist who incorporates psychology into every performance. His work is built on perception, influence, memory, misdirection, and the real mechanics of how people think, demonstrated live in ways that feel impossible. Audiences are not just watching things happen to someone on stage. Things happen to them. Their thoughts read, their choices predicted, their decisions reversed.

A stage production for large Tampa Bay audiences, from Water Street ballrooms to the Gulf Coast resort circuit. Fast, modern, and interactive, with the audience driving the impossible moments as they become the stars of the show. After-dinner formats run 15 to 45 minutes.

WHAT HE DOES

Mentalism That Blends Entertainment and Psychology

Strolling Close-Up Mentalism

Interactive mind reading performed among your guests during cocktail receptions and networking events. Keith moves group to group in clusters of four to ten people, creating moments in real time wherever people happen to be standing. Ideal for groups of under 500 delegates.

Keynote Experiences and Workshops

Hands on lessons and sessions, built for Tampa's business crowd, that turns the mechanics of influence and decision-making into a live, demonstrable experience. Equal parts performance and professional development, delivered as one seamless session that produces results.

Private Events

Having been invited to perform at weddings, birthdays, and VIP activations, Keith offers sophisticated performances for private gatherings in venues and residences across Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater Beach, calibrated to the setting and the guest list.

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Where Keith Performs in Tampa

Tampa Bay has grown into one of Florida's most active corporate markets, anchored by the Water Street district downtown and stretching across the Gulf Coast to St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Keith performs throughout the region.

  • Tampa Convention Center. The waterfront hub for the region's largest trade shows and general sessions

  • JW Marriott Tampa Water Street. The downtown district's landmark conference hotel

  • Tampa Marriott Water Street. A primary convention hotel connected to the convention center

  • Hilton Tampa Downtown. A central choice for meetings and corporate galas

  • The Vinoy Resort, St. Petersburg. The Gulf Coast's historic luxury landmark for executive events

  • Clearwater Beach resorts. Gulf-front properties for incentive programs and retreats

  • Anywhere in the Tampa Bay area. If your venue is not listed here, it almost certainly falls within Keith's regular Gulf Coast market.

What Event Planners Say

Keith worked with our Marketing Team to understand our business and tailored his performance to align with our goals. He came prepared with his equipment; looked professional and did a great job interacting with the crowd and our staff”

— BBVA Compass

We brought Keith in to perform at our user group event and he absolutely delivered. From the first interaction he had our guests leaning in, gasping, and talking about it for the rest of the night.

-Navina AI

We hired Keith for a corporate private event in south Florida. He was very attentive in the preparation for the event - understanding the crowd, the purpose of the night, and the layout of the stage and audience. The room's layout was not the ideal setup, but Keith worked around it to put on a wonderful show that wowed the audience. Several audience members mentioned how much they enjoyed the show!

— SCS Partners

WITH AUDIENCES RAVING

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Keith Kong is widely considered one of the best mentalists serving Tampa and the Gulf Coast. He is a Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 7 winner, a TEDx performer, and the on-camera talent for the Florida Lottery's Magic of the Holidays campaign, which was filmed in Tampa. He has performed for the Tampa Bay community at Clearwater hurricane relief events, and his corporate client list includes Red Bull, Kellogg's, Universal Studios, BBVA Compass, Pfizer, and Toll Brothers. For planners comparing mentalists, television credits, national conference experience, and verifiable local work are the most reliable measures.

  • Yes. Keith builds every routine around real principles of perception, influence, and decision-making rather than props or gimmicks, which is what makes each performance feel so personal. His workshop format goes further, showing a Tampa audience how those same principles play out in their own meetings and negotiations.

  • Yes, and Keith Kong is one of the few. His Season 7 win came from an original routine that Penn and Teller could not reverse-engineer on the spot, which is the entire test of the show. For a Tampa event planner, it is a shortcut to knowing the performer is the real thing before you ever see a demo reel.

  • Keith works with a limited number of corporate clients each year, and every engagement is quoted individually based on format, audience size, and the level of customization involved. Because Keith is based in Orlando, Tampa events involve minimal travel costs compared to booking an out-of-state performer. For a quote specific to your event, contact booking@kongmentalist.com and the team will respond within one business day.

  • Yes. In addition to performances across Tampa Bay and the Gulf Coast, Keith travels across the country for events regularly. Travel is coordinated through the booking team, and because Keith is Orlando based, Tampa events involve minimal travel costs. Contact booking@kongmentalist.com to discuss your event.

  • Mentalism stands out because nothing is pre-scripted around a passive crowd. In Tampa, Keith Kong works directly with what the people in the room are thinking, which makes every performance impossible to replicate and hard to stop talking about. It is available as a stage show, reception strolling, or keynote.

  • Yes. Keith pairs a full entertainment offering with genuine educational content drawn from the same ideas. Tampa clients often use the stage show to close a dinner and the keynote or workshop to anchor a morning session, so the two halves reinforce each other across the event.

  • Corporate conferences, association meetings, awards galas, sales kickoffs, incentive dinners, executive retreats, and private celebrations. Keith performs stage shows for large audiences and strolling close-up mentalism for receptions, at venues from the Tampa Convention Center and the Water Street hotels to Gulf Coast resorts in St. Petersburg and Clearwater.

  • Keith Kong is among the most credentialed corporate mentalists working today, with a Penn & Teller: Fool Us win, a TEDx performance, a Florida Lottery campaign, and 21 years of experience. He has performed for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and his corporate client list also includes Red Bull, Kellogg's, Universal Studios, BBVA Compass, Pfizer, and Toll Brothers.He is based in Orlando and serves Tampa and the Gulf Coast regularly.

  • For large conferences and annual meetings, six to twelve months is a reasonable planning horizon, particularly for spring and fall conference season. Smaller local Tampa engagements can sometimes be accommodated on shorter timelines. Contact booking@kongmentalist.com to confirm availability.