# Kory Anderson

Kory Anderson works in metal casting at Anderson Foundries and shares the craft of American manufacturing. Their posts also promote skilled trades as a career path for the next generation and document the 150 Case steam-engine tour.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/kory-anderson/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kory-anderson-54476418
- LinkedIn followers: 4,435
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMiJ6VSdJmZdUkxFZi1LPg
- Based on 13 dated posts, latest 2026-10-07

## Summary

Kory Anderson is most useful for making foundry work and skilled trades visible through first-person manufacturing stories.

- Best for: Best for manufacturing workforce development nonprofits seeking keynotes or documentary-style skilled trades campaigns.
- Not for: This does not fit AI, software, automation, or digital manufacturing campaigns needing benchmarks and rate cards.
- Check first: Confirm deliverables, terms, audience data, event date, and production calendar.

### Takeaways

- Kory Anderson describes turning pattern, sand, fire, and molten metal into castings.
- They argue young people should see foundry work up close.
- A tribute to the Garys recognizes workers who fix problems and teach others.

## Main ideas

- **Let people see and try the work**: Anderson argues that manufacturing cannot stay hidden behind factory walls if the next generation is to understand it. Direct exposure makes an unfamiliar craft tangible: people can see the process, meet its workers, and imagine themselves doing it.
- **Treat skilled trades as a first-choice career**: Anderson says workforce shortages cannot be addressed just by talking about vacancies. The people who make, repair, weld, pour, machine, build, and maintain essential things also need respect, and young people need to see trades as a positive career choice.
- **Honor the workers who pass on practical knowledge**: Anderson presents manufacturing as a craft built across generations. The tribute is not only to famous inventors or leaders, but also to the people who show up, solve problems, repair what is broken, and teach the next person.
- **Use demonstrations and stories to bring manufacturing to people**: Anderson’s posts make the work itself the outreach: a foundry visit, a traveling steam engine, or a worker tribute gives people something specific to see and remember. The steam tour also shows how a manufacturing story can reach beyond industry audiences, including families, children, and longtime enthusiasts.

## Work to read

- [National Manufacturing Day: pouring metal and opening the doors](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kory-anderson-54476418_manufacturingday-nationalmanufacturingday-activity-7511982135965085696-aKE9)
- [Hosting a production crew at Dakota Foundry](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kory-anderson-54476418_americanmanufacturing-madeinusa-foundry-activity-7492461423424339968-Gf-Z)
- [Speaking at the Build Freedom Summit](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kory-anderson-54476418_buildfreedom-skilledtrades-manufacturing-activity-7511089706764378113-rwVp)
- [The 150 Case steam-engine tour across five states](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kory-anderson-54476418_150case-steampreservation-manufacturing-activity-7508615608964378624-R1gV)
- [Honoring the "Garys" during Manufacturing Month](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kory-anderson-54476418_manufacturingmonth-manufacturingmonth-americanmanufacturing-activity-7513700946007363584-2Xis)

## Brand relationships

- **Anderson Foundries** (employment)
- **Carhartt** (disclosed_partnership)
- **Build Freedom Summit** (disclosed_partnership)

## Partnerships

No sponsorship policy, media kit, rate card or partnership inquiry route appears in the material reviewed for this profile. The posts document a small set of working brand and event relationships buyers could plan around. Carhartt is credited by name for outfitting the crew during a week of foundry filming at Dakota Foundry in Webster, South Dakota, with the resulting project set to debut in the fall—a product-supply relationship tied to a scheduled production. Kory Anderson also appears as a speaker at the Build Freedom Summit on October 20-21, sharing a discounted registration code. Conference and workforce-event appearances sit alongside the foundry and steam-tour work. The 150 Case steam-engine tour and the foundry offer locations where a partner’s story can be filmed, but the 2026 tour is described as wrapped. The partner hashtag and discount code document activity, not payment or published sponsorship terms. With no published partnership page or submission form, buyers should ask directly about terms and how to start a conversation.

## Alternatives

- Danielle Lares: Choose Danielle Lares when the keynote audience is project owners, contractors, unions, and funders rather than students or career-changers, and the session needs to explain how workforce pipeline planning works before construction starts. Lares writes about a Project Success Team approach that aligns investment, project scope, required skills, workforce strategy, compliance, and community impact, as well as apprenticeship placement, DOL standards, and reporting tied to contractor bid eligibility. For a nonprofit whose members must staff funded projects, Lares speaks the language of those deliverables and can make the case that a job title alone doesn’t describe the work, safety expectations, or training a role needs.
- Johnny Eaker: Choose Johnny Eaker when the keynote is about why new hires quit in the first week and what manufacturers can change about onboarding. Eaker’s posts argue that companies spend on advanced technology while new employees leave before the end of week one because nothing prepared them for the noise, pace, physical demands, and culture of a plant floor. They describe putting a headset on a recruit to walk through their actual workstation before day one, shrinking the gap between expectation and reality. That’s a directly actionable recruiting and retention argument, including for an audience weighing whether immersive training is a gimmick or a legitimate tool for reaching younger workers.
- Celina Peerman, Ph.D., CSP, SHRM-SCP: Choose Celina Peerman when the audience is leadership, HR, and operations managers who have to carry workforce change through an organization, and the keynote should address the human side of that change. Peerman writes that the hard part of new technology is people adapting, and frames employees’ questions about their roles, decisions, skills, and trust as leadership problems. A feature in Modern Casting, a publication of the American Foundry Society, is described as centering on bridging generational differences and helping people understand each other better so they can work better together, with stated effects on safety, performance, and culture. That makes Peerman a natural fit for the part of a workforce program focused on keeping and developing the people a manufacturer already has.

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AI-assisted summary of public posts. Audience demographics are not available. Engagement appears only where we checked recent posts. Method: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/methodology/