345: Elevate Your Audience Engagement Skills with These Proven Strategies with Katie Anderson [In-Person Speaking Series]

How do you keep your audience engaged throughout your talk or presentation?

There are basic strategies like asking questions of the audience, but there are more ways to keep your audience interested and engaged.

This is what I talk about with my guest and client, Katie Anderson.

Katie has been around the world, from Portugal to Poland to Brazil, speaking to audiences of all sizes.

In this episode, Katie and I talk about:

• Strategies she has used that have worked well to keep audiences engaged

• Fun things she has tried

• The importance of storytelling, performance, and stage presence

• A recent challenging speaking engagement that really tested her speaking skills (no surprise to me, she aced it!)

• How attending our in-person client retreat speaking accelerator dramatically improved her skills and confidence

This is the first episode in our new podcast series to help you up level your in-person speaking skills.

Registration is now open for our 3-day in-person client retreat speaking accelerator coming up in February 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Get all the details and apply at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/retreat/.

About My Guest: Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership and learning coach, consultant, and professional speaker, best known for inspiring individuals and organizations to lead with intention and increase their personal and professional impact. Katie is passionate about helping people around the world learn to lead and lead to learn by connecting purpose, process, and practice to achieve higher levels of performance. Her book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Lessons from Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Continuous Learning is an international #1 Amazon bestseller.

About Us: The Speaking Your Brand podcast is hosted by Carol Cox. At Speaking Your Brand, we help women entrepreneurs and professionals clarify their brand message and story, create their signature talks, and develop their thought leadership platforms. Our mission is to get more women in positions of influence and power because it's through women's stories, voices, and visibility that we challenge the status quo and change existing systems. Check out our coaching programs at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com.

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/345/

Katie’s website: http://kbjanderson.com/

Katie’s photos speaking at the Lean Institute Brasil Summit: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kbjanderson_how-do-you-respond-when-the-plan-you-had-activity-7077025294229909504-dZ-j

Discover your Speaker Archetype by taking our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz/

Register for our in-person client retreat = https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/retreat/

Connect on LinkedIn:

• Carol Cox = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox

• Katie Anderson (guest) = https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbjanderson/

Related Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 280: Making the Shift from Expert Presenter to Storyteller in Your Keynotes with Katie Anderson
• Episode 249: The Relationship Between Speaking and Performance with Carol Cox

Become Bookable Live Online Workshop - April 15, 2026
If you want to speak more but you’re not sure where to start or your efforts haven’t produced the results you want, I’m hosting a live online workshop called “Become Bookable: How to Get Speaking Invitations” on Wednesday, April 15th.

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