Keynote speaker · facilitator · event host
Communication, leadership & conversational intelligence
Keynotes for rooms that answer back.
Fast. Direct. And funny on purpose. Katja Schleicher turns communication into a live conversation — with the people who are actually in the room.
How I work on stage
No soothing slide-reading. Lovely people do that.
Katja speaks about communication, which means she has exactly zero excuses for boring a room. Her keynotes run on tempo, stories, and the occasional uncomfortable truth — delivered with enough humour that people laugh before they realise it was about them.
She does not deliver keynotes at rooms. She builds them out of the room. The smartest person at a conference is the collective sitting in front of her; her job is to get them talking, thinking, and occasionally admitting things out loud.
“I can’t have a conversation with people I can’t see.”
What your audience will get
Something worth carrying past the coffee break.
Energy, not edutainment-lite.
People leave with two or three ideas they will actually argue about at dinner — not forty bullet points they will never open again.
Crowd work, not canned interaction.
No forced pair-shares. No poll slides. Katja asks the room, reads the room, and — kindly — calls out the room. What comes back changes what she says next.
Something to use on Monday morning.
A standing ovation that produces no Monday behaviour is theatre. People leave with a tool in their hand and a reason to use it.
Three languages, one voice.
English, German, Dutch — same edge, same tempo, no translation losses.
The room is part of the work
No canned interaction. Even with 400 people.
No forced pair-shares. No poll slides she merely tolerates. Katja asks the room, reads the room, and — kindly — calls out the room. What comes back changes what she says next.
The opposite of a scripted keynote is not chaos. It is attention.
Monday morning test
A standing ovation is theatre. Behaviour is the point.
People leave with a tool in their hand and a reason to use it. No handout graveyard. No slide deck that expires at the train station.
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Same fire, different job
Your people are the show.
As a facilitator, Katja keeps the energy high, the waffle low, and the elephant in the room properly introduced to everyone. She will interrupt. She will ask the question nobody wanted asked. That is what you are paying for.
Good fit if: you want outcomes and honest conversation, and your group can handle both.
Bad fit if: the real goal is for everyone to leave feeling comfortable. Comfort is a fine goal. It is just not hers.
For the person who signs the contract
Your reputation is in the room too.
Dear booker, event manager, chief of staff: Katja knows your name is not on stage, but your reputation is.
We design the format together
In the briefing, we work out what your topic and your room actually need: classic keynote, interactive crowd-work session, moderated conversation, or a hybrid that does not have a name yet.
One briefing call, zero babysitting
Share the audience, theme, and minefields — then cross Katja off your worry list. She arrives prepared, on time, and tuned to your event, not to her last one.
The slot everyone remembers
When the room becomes part of the show, the coffee-break conversation is not “nice talk.” It is people still answering the question Katja asked them.
International audience? You do not need three speakers or a translation booth. Same keynote, same energy, in English, German, or Dutch — or switching mid-sentence if the room calls for it.
No diva rider. Working microphone, one glass of water, houselights on, an audience with a pulse. That is the list.
PRACTICAL
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Before the calendar fills
One working briefing. One clear format. No guesswork.
Book early — the calendar fills in waves, and Katja protects focus weeks between engagements on purpose. The briefing call is mandatory, and it is a working session, not a formality: that is where the right format is designed.
Check a date with KatjaClient perspective
Evidence from work that needed to land.
A practical measure of the room: what clients notice when the conversation becomes more direct, useful, and human.
Her training is just different compared to other trainings that I've had before: - Highly tailored and personalized! - Using gripping tools and methodologies! - Making sure you get what you need!
Communication is people's business. And Katja is an extremely well connected person that I really (!) enjoy working with for years now.
Public client feedback, reproduced verbatim from Interview Training.
Bring the room into focus
Bring Katja into the right room.
Share the shape of the room, the moment you are creating, and what you want people to carry home. Katja will come back with a considered first response — not a generic sales email.
Prefer your own email? ks@interview-training.eu