Voice Power and Speech Training

There are many flexible ways to participate in our programs to fit time and budget considerations. I recommend that we spend time on the phone or in person to inquire into your specific needs and goals. Feel free to call my office at 310.205.9219.

Voice and Voice Production is one of our Most Important Assets.

Listen to a Sample Session on voice.

* Proper Breathing and Projection Techniques.
* Understanding Voice Power.
* Identifying your Voice Range and Qualities.
* Working with Energy Levels.
* Character creations and consistency.
* Narration Styles.
* Voice Rhythms and Tempos.
* Working with or without dialects.
* Accent Elimination.
* Natural Tones versus Dramatic Voice Tones.
* Working with various Voice Placements.
* Microphone techniques.

Articulate your Personal Power where it Matters & Free the Great Communicator in you!

Methodology: We train speakers, communicators and business leaders to deliver presentations, speeches and key everyday communications with a genuine sense of ease, power and freedom. The strength of this approach is that it draws a great deal of its energy from the performing arts and specifically stage acting. That’s one of the competitive edges of this training. While we do not intend to turn speakers into actors, the number one ingredient in any effective presentation or speech is the clear command and taking charge of the stage, and everything contained in it. Public speaking is a borrowed theatrical convention and audiences expect a good “act.”

“Superior communication begins with the art of presence & the genuine accountability of being the focus of attention.”

In an atmosphere of globalization, the training and empowerment of business professionals are increasingly becoming fundamental strategic issues. Leadership, presence, accountability, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, personal power, superior communication skills, open-mindedness, inspiration, motivation and so on…are now expected qualities for the new century. Adapting to change and thinking in action are acquired skills not just talents.

Speech Therapy: How to Speak with Confidence Using your Voice Power.

A couple things to explain how I work: I use a very specific learning method based on several marvelous and most prominent speech coaches, I’ve had the privilege to train under: Alice Hermes, Edith Skinner and Robert Easton. The approach is through sound and the production of sounds not words, which are abstract and based on memory. Issues of breathing and resonance are covered in depth early.

Written language is organized by punctuation and visual arrangements of words as abstract notions. Spoken language is organized and governed by time (rhythm, phrasing, pauses) and by melody (pitch, intonation and inflection.) Having a renewed and often never originally conquered “experience” of sound places the speaker at a new level of confidence and control.

Control is what allows the communications to flow naturally. When we don’t know, we hesitate.