Who Is Michael Karl?
Michael Karl has a passion for connection and building relationships. His knowledge of influence and persuasion stems from his background in over 20 years as a professional mentalist. He believes that by asking better questions and starting quality conversations directly lead to the quality of our relationships.
His mission is to help as many people as possible build stronger quality relationships in their personal and professional lives. This starts by becoming more self-aware of the words we use, what our body language says and many more subliminal cues that can attract quality people into our circle.
Michael has been fortunate to partner with amazing clients across multiple industries from all over the world. These clients include MARS, PayPal, Indeed, Toyota, AT&T, Priceline, Cablevision, NBA and many more.
“having the opportunity to work with Michael Karl has been an eye opening and amazing experience”
He has appeared on several media channels for demonstrations such as predicting headlines, duplicating drawings, and reading the minds of his audiences. Michael is constantly asked to speak at conferences about communication skills such as influence, persuasion, connection, body language, and much more due to his innate ability to read the human body and it’s ‘micro signals’. In 2008 Michael demonstrated his unique take on psychology and body language by fooling a polygraph test given to him by law enforcement.
Michael started out in magic when he was just 6 years old and began performing professionally at the age of 14. He was soon more interested in the psychology behind the magic. Michael was intrigued by human behavior and wanted to know why people do what they do and how to influence others. This led him to develop skills to become a psychological illusionist or Mentalist.
Michael’s Mentalism act has allowed him to travel the world performing on cruise ships, at college universities, for corporate events, conferences, television and radio. In 2009 he became one of the official magicians of the Orlando Magic and even performed at the NBA finals that year (unfortunately the Magic lost to the Lakers in 5 games).
While entertaining a group Michael began his speaking career by accident when everyone was in awe by his mind-reading demonstrations and wanted to learn more. The CEO of a major corporation asked Michael to train his staff on these secret strategies in order to get an edge on the competition. Michael not only speaks but demonstrates how to read social cues and read people. Understanding these abilities and how to use them will make anyone more successful in business and life.
He has coached former candidates for Miss Nebraska/Miss America in interviewing skills. He appeared on the popular TV show Penn & Teller: Fool Us, where he used Subliminal messages to influence the decisions of Penn Jillette, Teller and Alyson Hannigan ('How I Met Your Mother).
And Yes he plays Poker…
Five Fun Facts!
Michael performed on the hit TV show Penn & Teller: Fool Us
He Fooled a Polygraph test administered by law enforcement
Played Division 2 College Basketball
Coached former candidates for Miss America in interviewing skills
Helped the FBI solve an international money laundering scam using magic
