Richard Nongard, a licensed psychotherapist and certified clinical hypnotherapist, is a Las Vegas headliner and the hypnotist to the Vegas Stars, working as a coach to Michael Johns and with other top stars of the Las Vegas Strip.
Richard was one of Eugene Burger's first magic students over 20 years ago in Chicago, mastering close-up and the bizarre, and has been performing and teaching in one capacity or another for almost 30 years. In his free-time he travels the world, most recently visiting Prague, Poland and Western Europe. Richard is a popular keynote speaker and presenter in both Europe and the United States, and with John Cerbone has coined the term "speed-trance" for their 3-7 second instant hypnosis inductions.