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KJ BLATTENBAUER
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KJ helps experts become impossible to ignore — not through more visibility, but through clearer positioning, stronger reputation, and recognition that makes them the obvious choice.
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KJ’s Official Bio
KJ Blattenbauer is a recognition strategist, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Hearsay PR. After nearly three decades in public relations, she discovered a surprising truth: the biggest opportunities rarely go to the most qualified person, they go to the person the market knows how to describe.
Today, KJ helps founders, executives, and industry experts become impossible to ignore by uncovering what they should be known for before they invest in media, marketing, speaking, or personal branding. Through her signature Recognition Report & Roadmap™, she helps clients clarify their positioning, articulate their value, and build reputations that create referrals, speaking invitations, media attention, and lasting business growth.
KJ is the bestselling author of Pitchworthy and host of the Pitchworthy podcast, where she explores the ideas behind recognition, reputation, and authority in a world overflowing with attention but starving for clarity.
Her insights have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, The TODAY Show, Architectural Digest, Entrepreneur, Inc., and hundreds of national and regional media outlets. She has advised everyone from emerging founders to globally recognized brands, helping remarkable people become impossible to ignore.
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Speaking Topics
01.
The Recognition Economy:
Why Visibility Is Losing Its Value
Goal:
Help leaders understand why recognition—not visibility—has become the most valuable competitive advantage in business.
Overview:
For years, we've been told to get more visibility, build a bigger audience, and create more content. But attention is no longer the scarce resource—clarity is. In this provocative keynote, KJ Blattenbauer challenges everything audiences think they know about personal branding, public relations, and thought leadership. She reveals why we're entering the Recognition Economy, where the greatest opportunities go to the people the market understands first, not necessarily the ones making the most noise. Audiences leave with a new framework for building authority, earning trust, and becoming the obvious choice in an increasingly crowded world.
Who is this for?
Innovation conferences, leadership events, executive teams, entrepreneurs, associations, and organizations navigating change.
02.
The Recognition Gap:
Why the Best Opportunities Go to the People the Market Understands
Goal:
Help audiences identify the hidden gap between how they see themselves and how the market perceives them—and close it.
Overview:
The biggest opportunities rarely go to the most qualified person. They go to the person people know how to describe. After nearly three decades in public relations, KJ has uncovered the invisible force separating overlooked experts from industry leaders: the Recognition Gap. Through powerful stories, surprising insights, and practical strategies, audiences learn why talent alone isn't enough and how to build a reputation that earns referrals, speaking invitations, media attention, and opportunities long before they enter the room.
Who is this for?
Founders, executives, sales organizations, professional services firms, associations, and leadership conferences.
03.
Impossible to Ignore:
How Great Reputations Are Built—and Why They Matter More Than Ever
Goal:
Inspire audiences to stop chasing attention and start building the kind of reputation that creates lasting opportunity.
Overview:
The most successful people aren't always the loudest. They're the ones others can't stop talking about. In this inspiring and actionable keynote, KJ shares what nearly thirty years in public relations has taught her about credibility, influence, and the conversations that happen when you're not in the room. Audiences will rethink what it means to build a personal brand, discover why reputation compounds over time, and leave with a roadmap for becoming impossible to ignore—for all the right reasons.
Who is this for?
Women's leadership conferences, corporate events, entrepreneur communities, executive retreats, universities, and organizations focused on leadership and professional growth.
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