Giving Voice to Clean Air

It’s always fun to learn on the job, and that is exactly what happened when asked to help prepare Alessandro Bisagni for his recent TEDx talk “What’s in the air you breathe?” His Voice Intensive session focused on impact, projection, vocal variety and above all, authenticity – all the things that recent research tells us, […]

Finding Your Own Voice

This Guardian article reminded me of a recent call from a client asking if I could help them speak ‘a bit like Benedict Cumberbatch’…it got me thinking about accent and authenticity and how I like to work with a client to find their own authentic voice, not someone else’s.

Meeting the Challenges of Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing is a cognitively complex activity and (according to a 2008 Management Science academic study) users often resort to heuristics to cope – such as making instant judgements about how likeable a speaker is, rather than about the quality of their argument.