Your voice can hold and move the room.
Brilliant women like you can lose your hold on the room, not because you need more presentation skills, but because you have too many.
Step beyond choreographing, drilling and managing presentation skills.
Allow your voice to rise, the voice you were born to bring to the world you were born to change.
Hold the room. Move hearts and minds. Ignite brave, bold action. Shape a new world.
From Self-Consciousness to Self-Trust • From Fear to Courageous Action
When what matters is at stake
You have earned your place.
You are in the room and at the table.
The work, in motion
So my work begins with direct experience, not with instructions. You learn to notice what happens in your breath, body, voice and attention when communication becomes consequential. Through guided physical exploration, feedback and repeated practice with other people, you develop more ways to breathe, sound, listen, respond and remain connected.
The goal is not to imitate the appearance of presence. It is to develop the conditions from which presence can arise.
More of you remains available. You can feel without being overwhelmed, think without disconnecting, speak without forcing and listen without disappearing. Your voice carries more of what you mean because your communication is no longer assembled from the outside. It arises through you and reaches toward another person.
The Five Shifts
Your attention shifts from how you are being perceived, how you look and sound, whether you are getting it right, to being fully present with yourself, your purpose, and the people in front of you.
Your attention shifts from taking command of the room and demanding their attention, to giving them yours, becoming genuinely interested in their presence, their responses and their experience, listening, receiving, responding, and allowing yourself to affect and be affected by them.
Your attention shifts from evaluating and judging yourself, second-guessing what you are doing and how you are doing it, to trusting the skills and abilities you have trained into your body, and trusting yourself to meet the moment as it unfolds.
Your attention shifts from trying to conquer, control or conceal your fear, to recognizing, “I know this place. I know how to move through it,” trusting what you have learned in your body, and allowing what matters to move you into courageous action.
Your attention turns from inward to outward, from concern with the impression you are making and what they think of you, to what you came here to do: make an impact in them and for them, and ignite brave, bold action.