Other speakers explain influence. Gilan lets your audience feel it first.
Gilan helps high-performers bring their sharpest influence and leadership into the moments that count, especially when under real pressure.
Your audience won't just hear ideas about influence, they'll experience them, and remember why they matter.
Gilan is the author of Persuasion Games, a bestselling book on the science of influence. The clip from its launch is here if you'd like a closer look.
Your audience doesn't need more content. They need an experience.
We're drowning in content. If information alone changed how people lead, you could play them a YouTube video and call it a day. What actually moves people is an experience, something novel and a little astonishing that anchors the teaching emotionally so it stays with them.
That's what the mentalism does. Every keynote includes a live, interactive experiment that's mind-bending in the moment, and every piece of it ties straight back to the point being taught.
Your audience doesn't just hear the idea about influence or perception. They feel it happen, on themselves, and that's what makes it a memorable learning experience.
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Three ways Gilan shows up
A closing or opening session your conference won't forget, built around one of Gilan's core themes and the live experiment. Best when you want energy, depth, and a story people retell.
See keynote topicsWorkshops and longer programmes that go past the keynote, into the harder work of changing how a team thinks and behaves. This includes Gilan's flagship Growth-Culture Accelerator, a multi-month culture transformation programme.
Explore the workA full mentalist show, or Gilan hosting your event as MC with mentalist moments woven through. Intelligent entertainment for awards dinners, gala evenings, and year-end functions.
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Reading people taught Gilan how leaders really operate
Gilan started out as a professional mentalist. Most people only know the term from the TV show, and that character is loosely based on people like him. His early career was built on what looked like mind reading, working out what people were thinking, or what they'd do before they knew it themselves. There's nothing psychic about it. What it takes is understanding, very precisely, how people think: the assumptions they make without realising it, and the way their minds fill in gaps and jump to conclusions.
That turns out to be a rare foundation for leadership work. Strip away the showmanship and what's left is an unusual lens on human behaviour, one Gilan has spent the last two decades applying in boardrooms and on stages across more than 40 countries, for Fortune 500 companies, governments, even sharing his influence models with NATO.
What kept pulling him deeper wasn't the performance side of leadership. It was the inner side. What happens inside a leader's mind when the stakes are high, and what shapes the way they see a situation and respond to it. That's the work he does now.
Read his storyWhat Gilan speaks on
Unlocking Growth Mindset
Why some teams keep growing while others plateau, and the practical shifts that move them.
The Rapid Influence Formula
A simple way to establish influence with anyone, quickly, without pressure or manipulation.
PEAK Feedback
How to hold the hard conversations in a way that creates breakthrough influence instead of friction.
The Business of Body Language
What you convey versus what you say, and how to read what people actually mean.
Leading Awake Podcast
High performers who lead a team deal with a lot they never talk about: the pressure, the self-doubt, the gap between how they're really doing and what they show on the outside.
Leading Awake brings that conversation into the open. In each episode, three senior leaders from different industries sit down for an honest talk about what leading at this level is really like. It's the kind of conversation that usually only happens in private.
In their words
I must mention that you were the highlight of the conference. You were both dynamic, educational and inspirational. The points you raised will be of great benefit in the Risk fraternity. Thank you.
Gilan is one of the world's top experts in reading and influencing people. I have followed his work.
One of the conference highlights was mentalist Gilan Gork, who interactively demonstrated a remarkable ability and showed how one can increase levels of trust, credibility, and influence.
Most leadership programmes fail for the same quiet reason: they try to change behaviour while leaving the mindset underneath untouched. So the team nods in the room, then drifts back within a quarter.
The companies pulling ahead on revenue, innovation, and resilience did something different. They shifted how their people see before asking them to act, and the behaviour followed on its own.
Gilan's whitepaper lays out the research behind it (including a single mindset shift that Microsoft says helped take it from 300 billion to 2.5 trillion in value), and the framework he uses to do the same inside leadership teams. If your last culture initiative didn't stick, this paper explains why.
See clearly, before you act.
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Tell Gilan about your event or your team
If you've got an event coming up, or a team challenge you're trying to move, Gilan would like to hear about it. The best place to start is a short conversation, so he can understand what you actually need before suggesting anything.