Creating Business Magic

David Morey, founder and Chairman of DMG Global and Vice Chairman of Core Strategy Group, is one of America’s leading strategic consultants and most sought-after speakers. As a magician, he performs on stages around the world, including at the official Inaugural Balls of the forty-fourth president of the United States, Barack Obama. He is the award-winning author of the The Underdog Advantage (McGraw-Hill) and The Leadership Campaign (Career Press), and for many years served as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. Over the years, Mr. Morey has worked with some of the world’s top business leaders—and advised five Nobel Peace Prize winners and eighteen winning global presidential campaigns. His corporate clients include GE, Verizon, Pepsi, Mars, KPMG, Deloitte, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike, P&G, Disney, Visa, The Coca-Cola Company, Linked-in, TPG, American Express, NBC, and many others. John E. McLaughlin was deputy director and acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2000 to 2004, capping a 32-year career in intelligence. He is a highly-accomplished magician, performer, and speaker, focusing on foreign affairs and the application of magic principles to intelligence, business, and leadership. Mr. McLaughlin currently teaches at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. During his government career, he worked on nearly every part of the world, briefed four U.S. presidents and the Congress, represented the intelligence community in meetings of the National Security Council, and traveled widely to strengthen U.S. relations with national security counterparts globally. Mr. McLaughlin continues to testify before Congress and to participate in public policy debates through articles in major newspapers and commentary on television. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Community Service Award and the National Security Medal. One of magic’s legendary performers, philosophers, and teachers, the late Eugene Burger was called by Magic magazine “one of the 100 most influential magicians of the 20th century.” He amazed and delighted audiences from Las Vegas to Tokyo and, as Stagebill magazine proclaimed, Eugene Burger is “universally recognized as perhaps the finest close-up magician in the world.” The author of fifteen best-selling books on magic, translated into many languages, Mr. Burger starred in eight instructional videos, lectured in over a dozen countries, appeared on television in the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, Belgium, Finland, and Japan, including on PBS and CNN, and was the featured speaker for top corporations and business schools. Mr. Burger’s deep understanding of the psychology and philosophy behind and within magic won him many international accolades, cover stories in conjuring magazines, and four awards from Hollywood’s legendary Magic Castle.