The magic of Robert K. Miller is designed to cut your business risk. True! You want your major client to relax and enjoy the evening. You want your employees to find their reward party to be fulfilling. You want your sales people to get the message at that upcoming meeting. These are all critical business objectives.

To be effective in magic you need to work hard at it, and for a long time. If you do the same effects -- the ones people love the most -- for 50 years as I have, then you're going to get really good at it!

I've been in those business trenches with you. I became a full-time professional entertainer after my second early retirement from the corporate world. I honed my close-up magic skills for eight years at board meetings, luncheons, dinners and cocktail receptions as a Bank Marketing Association executive in Chicago. A fine edge developed at their conventions, educational programs and trade shows, and before that as a banker-member of that organization while I was a vice president at one of the top international banks.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, and a Masters from its Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Chicago. I also earned a Doctor of Magic from Fechter's Finger Flicking Frolic. (It's conferred for performing three times at this invitation-only, annual, international gathering of the finest close-up magic specialists.) By the way, I also have won 11 first-place magic competitions, and have appeared on dozens of TV programs. What's much more important, though, is what my clients think.

So, both my education and experience enable me to relate exceptionally well to your sophisticated audiences. I blend right in with your company's clients and prospects, as well as with your executives and staff. That's why I always wear the surprising bright blue-and-white striped jacket you see here. It's actually to distinguish me and to suggest that something is about to happen which is both interesting and different. (Truth be told, it also has lots of secret pockets to help me "magish" -- that's a verb, by the way, intransitive.)

My bottom line: The secret to my being a popular magical entertainer is not the tricks, but rather how I present them. It's the "singer, not the songs" concept.

People get to help in my magic (but only if they really want to). Several items in my stand-up program can involve the entire audience ...and you!