Meet Katja Schleicher



"The moment you assume the other understands your ‘language’ - is the moment you’ve lost them."

– Katja Schleicher

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About Katja

Katja Schleicher is a sought after communications expert and keynote speaker. She heads IMPACT! Communication Coaching, a pan-European training office focusing on communication coaching, media & public speaking training & business storytelling.

She gets managers, teams, women and men to talk more easily to all stakeholders and improves their communicative impact in Public Speeches, conversations and media interviews. Words, what they mean and how they “come across" to the audience are her passion and business model. In this order.

That's why she studied linguistics and psychology. After a long career in PR, advertising, TV and corporate communications for high-tech companies, she has been on the road for two decades as Speaker, consultant & coach to overcome the (intercultural) communication shallows and misunderstandings throughout the Business World.

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Insights from Katja

“Katja is a natural on stage, acting and speaking like a rockstar. She owns a special skill to craft the architecture of any speech and then naturally deliver the content to the public audience.” - Dana Niculescu, Deutsche Bank

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Keynote Session
Fluent in Conversational Intelligence. For Career-Making Conversations
Small Talk, Smart Talk & Real Talk: They sound simple but they’re the power tools no one teaches and every ambitious leader needs. In this razor-sharp keynote, Katja Schleicher calls out the real reason many bright, capable professionals stall: not what they know, but how they talk. With her trademark radical candor, Katja breaks down why conversational intelligence is the global career skill that separates those who get by from those who get ahead - across cultures, functions, and leadership levels. From tone-deaf tech teams to over-scripted execs, she’ll show how to build trust faster, frame smarter, and cut through corporate blah-blah with real authority. Expect a high-energy session full of cross-cultural truths, functional misfits, timing fails, and quick-fix upgrades that make your conversations count. Because the future doesn’t belong to the loudest in the room - it belongs to the most fluent. And Katja will teach you the language.