Corporate Magician & LEAN Keynote Speaker
Where Magic Meets Continuous Improvement
World-class magic. Practical LEAN.
Small improvements. Extraordinary results.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us Winner
International Champion of Magic
North American Champion
TEDx Detroit Speaker
Corporate keynotes and two-hour seminars.
Now booking 2027–28.
Check availability: slystu@gmail.com
You’re already 98% of the way there. The difference between good and world-class lives in the final 2%. PUTTING IN THE WORK is a practical field manual for performers, entertainers, creatives, and high achievers who know they are capable of more—but need a system for getting there. Stuart MacDonald didn’t build this system in a classroom. He built it onstage.
After returning to competitive magic, MacDonald applied the principles of continuous improvement, direct observation, problem solving, measurement, experimentation, and disciplined practice to his own performance. The results helped take him from failure to fooling Penn & Teller, becoming a North American Champion of Magic, and earning international championship recognition.
Now he has turned that process into a step-by-step field manual designed to help you examine your own work with the same intensity.
Magic your audience remembers. Ideas they can use.
Bring a Penn & Teller: Fool Us winner, international magic champion and TEDx speaker to your next event. Stuart MacDonald combines theatrical magic with practical lessons in LEAN and Continuous Improvement.
Explore corporate entertainment or keynotes and seminars, then tell Stuart about your event.
“Stuart MacDonald as a speaker goes above and beyond to bringsomething truly unique, exciting and relevant to an event.”
Contact us.
slystu@gmail.com
Stuart MacDonald Keynote Speaker
Where Magic Meets Continuous Improvement
Stuart MacDonald is a TEDx speaker, Penn & Teller: Fool Us winner and award-winning magician with corporate experience at Whirlpool. His keynotes connect live magic with LEAN, observation, experimentation and practical problem-solving.
The development of his signature act gives audiences a shared case study: define the outcome, examine the process and improve through small, deliberate changes.
Choose a keynote, customized two-hour seminar or corporate magic performance for your conference, leadership meeting or special event.
Explore keynote programs · Watch videos · Check availability
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Stuart performs his award winning mirror illusion then breaks down how he developed it. Stuart covers, waste walking, direct observation, process mapping, failure modes, andon and more.
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Stuart’s vast experience as a champion magician has given him remarkable skills as a problem solver. Magic is nothing but problem solving and Stuart peels back the curtain of a magic processes mixed with LEAN problem solving. Audiences will learn how to think like a magician but more importantly to solve problems like a magician.
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Communicating is bottom line the most important part of being a human, leader and worker. I teach you the ins and outs of how to develop a narrative and win your audience 100 percent of the time. This technique works for sales, engagement and life!
"Stuart certainly has accomplished much in the world of magic, and learning about his journey, his use of lean and continuous improvement tools to create and hone his signature acts, and tying that with much magic fun was a great activity for our supply chain leadership"
Clayton Maas, Vice-President of Engineering & Sustainability Committee Chair
SpartanNash
30, 60 and 90 minute Magic and Keynote speaking
Customized Workshops Available
Stuart’s TV appearances, performances and keynote presentation trailer.
TEDx Detroit, 5000 leaders listen to Stuart’s use of LEAN and Continuous Improvement in this magic.
Keynoting at the ASQ Six Sigma National Convention.
“Stuart held the rapt attention of over 200 attendees during the 90
minutes he spoke. For many in the audience, it was the best presentation of the conference.”
— Printing United Alliance
“I like how he set a timeline and recorded his practice 100 times in 30 days, so that he could get it down and see each time how to improve it. Your lecture really fit in well with our program”
— Bill Hoagland, NEMCON
“Stuart MacDonald as a speaker goes above and beyond to bring
something truly unique, exciting and relevant to an event.”-ASQ.Org