Anthony Lindan

Anthony Lindan is a master magician, performer, team builder, custom creator and lecturer of close up magic as well as a gifted and engaging stage illusionist and mentalist.

Based in southern Ontario (Canada), Anthony has for more than 25 years performed exclusively for corporate functions such as receptions, conventions, conferences, trade shows, hospitality suites, sales meetings and at numerous prestigious events requiring the finest in blue chip entertainment. Lindan’s keynote presentations and workshops share practical tips about tapping into your inner magic, maximizing your personal impact and communicating more confidently and effectively.

LIVE EVENTS

THE MAGIC OF COLLABORATION
Interactive Team Building Workshop
Smaller Group Format: 15 - 100 participants
(expandable & adaptable up to 300 attendees)

Dowload PDF outline

Overview:

Anthony Lindan has combined his unique experience as a corporate trainer and entertainer to create a fun and engaging team building activity  – The Magic of Collaboration – that delivers valuable learning outcomes.

Your team creates and performs a Las Vegas Style variety show. Each act is scored by a panel of celebrity judges and the highest score wins the grand prize. Although not a million dollar contract or the prestigious Mirror Ball trophy, the winners do get bragging rights in the office!

It`s friendly competition where your team members are the STARS of the show! Everyone is a winner as participants experience the direct benefits of collaborating to achieve results! +

How It Works:

• Your group is divided into small teams and each team acts an award winning Hollywood production team.
• Each team works together to create and perform one act in a Las Vegas style variety show. (Don`t worry! Each team is given an easy to learn and even easier to perform magic trick. After about 15 minutes you’ll be ready to headline your own show on the Vegas strip.)
• It’s show time! Each team takes the stage and performs their act.
• It`s all about achieving results so after the thunderous applause a panel of celebrity judges ( for example, Lady Gaga, David Hasslehoff and Simon Cowl played by three of your people) score each performance. The team with the highest score wins the grand prize!

Logistics:

The Magic of Collaboration team building activity is a complete turnkey program and Anthony Lindan provides all required learning materials and props.

It requires a simple room set up. He's delivered the program in board rooms, hotel meeting rooms, client function rooms and even outdoors!  NO fancy lighting, decor or stage is required.

About the judging… it’s a FUN competition that emphasizes the importance of working together to achieve results. Three of your people play the part of celebrity judges.The judge’s responses are equally as anticipated and entertaining as the performances! Don’t worry, we provide the costumes and character profile briefing sheets for each judge.The client determines how many prizes are to be awarded and supplies the prizes.

The Serious Stuff

The variety show concept is an interactive, non-threatening and non-physically challenging medium. Everyone can participate and the activity draws on a diversity of skills and thrives on cross pollination and personal buy in.

Teams can straddle departments, age, gender, job titles, seniority, skill sets and learning styles. Crossing silos allows your employees to truly appreciate and experience the diverse perspectives that contribute to your organization’s ultimate success.

Each team is assigned a simple and easy to perform magic trick and given a progression of defined tasks that culminates in a performance on stage. Not everyone has to go on stage. Three quarters of the work is behind the scenes.

Participants negotiate within the teams for roles that are in line with their natural strengths and talents. Working from a strong foundation promotes personal buy in of the entire collaborative process and strengthens the link between attitude, working together and achieving results.

Teams have fun working hard and smart taking calculated risks in a truly collaborative experience. Empowered players build strong teams that create amazing results.

The creative finger prints of each team player are integral ingredients in defining the ultimate success of the stage performance.

Minimum number of participants is 15 and the maximum number of participants is 300. Including Anthony Lindan’s opening magic demonstrations, the total run time is generally 2 - 2½ hours hours. Anthony Lindan provides all necessary magic props, sound system requirements when necessary as well as and learning & take-away materials. --

ADDITIONAL SERVICES provided by Anthony Lindan:

The Power of Magic

Over the years, Anthony Lindan has participated in hundreds of trade shows and corporate events throughout North America. He practices his specialized brand of marketing wizardry on behalf of an impressive array of corporate clients - industry leaders who have come to believe in The Power of Magic to:

• attract and hold attention at a trade show booth or hospitality suite;
• to educate and motivate customers;
• motivate staff or a sales team at sales meetings, training events and product launches;
• entertain participants at conventions, conferences and corporate events and ...
• to have a whole lot of fun in the process!

Pure Enertainment

Many occasions call for nothing more complicated than a really good show which is exactly what the Pure Entertainment program offers in two magical versions. Both are lighthearted celebrations of fun and goodwill and each can be customized to carry your corporate message.

Anthony takes care of the pre-performance details and his material is always in good taste so there's nothing to plan, do or worry about.

Now, we should mention that Anthony Lindan decidedly does not fit the usual stereotype of magician-performer. There are no pesky rabbits, no flighty doves and when it comes to costume, he favors well-tailored business suits (or black tie if the occasion calls for it) over Mandrake-the-Magician capes.

Something of a chameleon, he tends to blend in ... until he starts to work. That's when the fun begins.

1. PRESENCE OF MIND - Stage Show

Presence of Mind is a 30-40 minute, cabaret style, stage magic show designed for an audience of 25-500 people. With its focus on audience participation, it's ideal for banquets, award ceremonies, sales meetings, product launches, conventions and any event where people gather to have a good time! It's a fast-moving show and Lindan gets the audience into the act right from the start (pick a card, any card). He turns otherwise perfectly normal people into human slot machines (lots of spinning, silliness and laughter); gets the boss into the act; borrows money, makes it disappear and takes the audience on a complex series of misadventures to get it back. Before you know it, it's time for the grand finale -- the hilariously frustrating Houdini-style escape. Houdini was never like this! +

Two volunteers securely lock Lindan's hands behind his back and conceal him as he attempts to escape. In an artfully artless routine worthy of the great silent movie comedians, Lindan wages an impossible battle with his jacket, the shackles, the hapless volunteers holding up the curtain and the audience. Without giving too much away, we can say that he is ultimately successful, the show is over all too soon and as the event manager responsible for booking entertainment, you're looking very good indeed. (See video for more on this.) --

2. MAGIC IS AFOOT! - Strolling Magic

Magic is Afoot! is a form of just-for-fun pure entertainment. Anthony strolls from location to location or table to table involving members of the audience in close-up, sleight-of-hand magic. Given his chameleon quality, it's not always easy to pick Lindan out of the crowd but you can track his progress through the room by following the sounds of amazement and laughter. Magic is Afoot! is an intimate, involving style of show that's ideal for cocktail receptions, intimate dinner parties, trade shows booths to increase visibility and awareness, awards and incentive events,  and corporate hospitality suites. --

VIRTUAL OPTIONS
Anthony is currently providing (2) "virtual" options: 

Option 1:

VIRTUAL Entertainment:"You’ve Got Talent" - Virtual Holiday Party Extravaganza Show +

Unique, fun & exciting entertainment for your virtual office holiday party – The ‘You’ve Got Talent Virtual Holiday Party Extravaganza Show’

Instead of just watching a show – YOUR TEAM IS THE SHOW!

Your team learns magic tricks and performs a fun Zoom Magic Show.

It’s a friendly reality TV competition style show & your team is the STAR of the show

Why hire an entertainer when your people can have fun performing amazing magic like famous TV magicians like Criss Angel, Penn & Teller, David Blaine and David Copperfield!

It’s 45 - 60 minutes of fun, laughter and merriment.

Idea for groups from 10 – 50 people.

How It Works:

• Your office is divided into small teams.
• Each team works together over Zoom to learn a different magic trick. We provide all the necessary instructions and support material.
• Each team then performs their trick in an amazing Zoom Magic Show.
• The team who delivers the most entertaining performance, as voted by their peers, is crowned the Grand Magic Champion!

Flexible Show Times – Run It Any Time You Want:

• Lunch Time parties
• Afternoon parties
• Evening parties

Booking Is Simple & Easy:

• Pick a date & time
• We send you the Zoom invite and magic trick details
• Your team logs into Zoom and has fun!!!

The ‘You’ve Got Talent Virtual Holiday Party Extravaganza Show’ is presented and emceed by master magician Anthony Lindan.

Whether your team operates across the city, country or world, we can provide a fun &  exciting entertainment experience for your virtual office party! --

Option 2

VIRTUAL Team Building: "The Magic of Collaboration" +

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to provide the most optimum experience and to fully engage your teams virtually, Anthony Lindan's virtual team building program is limited to 40-50 participants per session (via Zoom). For larger on-line events, discounted pricing for multiple sessions may be offered. Please inquire for more information.

"The Magic of Collaboration"

Anthony LIndan has been providing  innovative ‘live and in-person’ team building workshops for over 14 years. His clients include many of Canada's leading companies. Companies are now adapting to the new business reality of having their employees working remotely and communicating virtually. Anthony has succesfully modified his proven ‘live event’ format into a  ‘virtual format’ delivered over Zoom. We are excited to deliver 'The Magic of Collaboration' virtual team building activity to your team!

A fun & exciting virtual team building activity that reconnects & engages teams working remotely.

• The ‘Magic of Collaboration’ virtual team building activity fosters personal connection, collaboration and laughter through a fun shared experience.
• Your team works together over ZOOM to learn simple but imaginative magic tricks and then performs a virtual Las Vegas style Street Magic Show!
• Participants have a lot of fun while working together to perform amazing magic like famous TV magicians - Criss Angel, Penn & Teller, David Blaine and David Copperfield!
• It’s a friendly reality TV style competition. The team with the best performance is crowned the ‘Grand Magic Champion’

Your team learns powerful secrets from the entertainment stage that will help them perform better on the business stage! They see first hand that team success requires everyone's unique contribution. Participants experience the direct benefits of collaborating to achieve results!

Powerful Learning Outcomes

Experience the 3 C's of Team Work - Communicate, Co-operate & Collaborate

The Magic of Collaboration virtual team building activity helps your team:

• Interact and perform more effectively.
• Experience the direct link between attitude, working together and achieving results.
• Unlock their creativity and innovation.

Besides contributing their own unique talents, participant also exercise the following skills:

• Creative Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Communication (speaking and listening)
• Presentation
• Emotional Intelligence
• Time Management

Virtual Team Building Testimonials:

"It was great to have Anthony lead my team in a virtual team building activity. With Covid-19 it is challenging to have the team engage in team-building activities to boost engagement as everyone is working remotely. The Magic of Collaboration was an excellent way to get team members to work together in a safe virtual environment. I would highly recommend it. The feedback from the team was that it was an extremely fun activity and they really enjoyed working closely over video conference with their colleagues."
- Shoppers Drug Mart

“Thank you, Anthony for hosting and leading an excellent team-building event for our team. It was great to work together as a team for something out of the ordinary. The efforts in planning the event for a virtual platform were both effective and great fun – a great way to still bring us together as we continue to navigate this new way of working and collaborating. This definitely made for some good laughs and brought out the “performers” we didn’t know we had amongst us!”
- 407 ETR

"“Thank you Anthony for your Magic of Collaboration Virtual Team Building Session. Our work lives have drastically changed over the past few months because of the epidemic and also because we now work remotely more than ever before. Your fun activity reminded everyone of the benefits of team work and was most appreciated. The activities were fun and brought a smile on everyone’s face. Anthony is entertaining and professional. This was 75 minutes well spent! “
- GE Healthcare team

"Our leadership staff at the YWCA Niagara Region recently experienced a fun and interactive team building session with Anthony using a zoom meeting. We didn’t know what to expect, but we were all surprised with how enjoyable the experience was. Each member got to play a role that was easy to follow and understand, and did so enthusiastically. Anthony created a great session that helped us understand our other team members strong points and comfort levels. This was a great way to reconnect during a time that is very uncertain and difficult. Thank you Anthony for giving us a great afternoon – and some neat tricks to hide up our sleeves!"
– YWCA Niagara Region

"In a time where we have all been experiencing so much separation it was wonderful to come together for a short while and share this session as a team. Thank you Anthony for facilitating a fun workshop that had us all laughing and learning."
- GM BluePlan Engineering

"We had a great time participating in the Magic of Collaboration virtual team building activity. Anthony did a great job with the online version of this program. Our team was engaged, the timing of the program was perfect and we had many laughs. Even though many of our team have worked together for years, we still learned something new about each other."
- Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce

For more information on the virtual team building program The Magic of Collaboration, simply contact us. --

Anthony Lindan is represented by K&M Productions. For more information & booking Anthony Lindan, contact us.