WHAT THE LAB IS

A Practice Environment - Not a Course

 

The Leadership Voice Lab is not

• a presentation course,
• a toolkit of techniques,
• or a one-off communication workshop designed to improve surface performance. 

 

The Leadership Voice Lab is a rehearsal environment for leaders who want to transform how their leadership is expressed, embodied, and experienced

 - particularly in moments where leadership is visible and consequential.

 

The Lab focuses on leadership communication - voice, presence, language, and timing - as the primary instruments of influence.

 

Rehearsal in the Leadership Voice Lab is a leadership communication discipline - not role play - grounded in a rigorous, proprietary framework.

 

The Communication Practice Leaders Develop in the Lab 

The Lab equips leaders with a communication practice that is:

 

🔺 Credible
Authority earned from coherence between intention, action, and expression.

 

🔺 Grounded
Physical and emotional presence that attracts trust and steadies others under pressure.

 

🔺 Responsive
The capacity to adjust tone, timing, and stance in real time, in response to people and context.

 

🔺 Transformative
Communication that shapes meaning, opens new perspective, and makes change possible. 

 

This practice is evolved, rehearsed, refined, and stabilised over time 

- until leaders move from understanding communication to commanding it in real leadership moments.

 

This is where leaders move from effective to exceptional.

 

OUR PRACTICE -BASED METHOD

It’s the difference between knowing - and being able to do.

 

The what of leadership communication can be learned from theory.
The how is developed through disciplined practice.

 

In the Leadership Voice Lab, leadership voice

- both personal and organisational -

is treated as a leader’s primary instrument for shaping authority, meaning, and influence.

 

Through our development process

- refined over many decades of work as professional voice coaches and leadership educators -

leaders access a revitalised leadership communication practice.

 

How the Method Works

 

Our proprietary method is anchored in disciplined practice. It builds capability in our 8 Pillars of Leadership Communication Mastery.

 

The Method is supported by:

• personal guidance that sharpens awareness and choice
• precise, developmental feedback that refines impact
• tailored rehearsal shaped by  the leader’s context
• skill-building applied directly to live communication demands
• structured analysis, reflection and refinement that consolidates learning over time

 

Leaders work with real leadership scenarios - conversations, moments of influence, transitions, and challenges -

testing and refining presence, authority, clarity, vocal impact, and influence before they are required in the leadership arena.

 

 

The Outcome

In the Lab, leaders evolve their leadership communication from what is

often a blunt instrument

into a finely honed capability - precise, intentional, and powerful in skilled hands.

 

Leadership presence, executive communication, and influence are strengthened so leaders can:

 

🔺 command attention without relying on positional power

🔺 maintain clarity, composure, and impact under pressure

🔺 establish credibility and trust through consistency and alignment

🔺 mobilise commitment through clear, strategic narrative

🔺 create alignment and shared understanding

🔺 generate momentum through change and transformation

 

This moves leaders beyond surface-level performance

into embodied leadership expression that is grounded, authentic, and recognisably their own.

So leaders can meet everyday leadership moments -

and high-stakes ones -

with clarity, authority, and credibility.

 

Critically, when inspiration is required, they are able to deliver it.

 

Leadership impact is not learned once.
It is practised until it becomes dependable.

 

This is not a course.
It is a practice for mastery.

 

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PERFORMANCE VS PERFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP

 

Understanding When Performance Builds Leadership - and When It Undermines It

 

Leadership is a performance - but not every performance creates leadership impact.

 

The risk is not performance itself. The risk is performance without presence.

 

Performative leadership focuses on appearance:

• saying the right things
• adopting a style or template approach
• projecting confidence without sufficient grounding

It can look polished.
But it often lacks resonance.

 

The result is effort without influence -
and presence without real connection.

 

By contrast, authentic leadership performance is intentional, embodied, and grounded.

 

It resonates.
It connects.
It earns confidence and trust.

 

It requires both:

• the skill to work with voice, presence, language, timing, and
• the courage to be original. To express who you are
  through how you lead.

 

This is the space where credibility, authority, and trust are formed -

not through affectation -
but through mastery and connection.

  

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LEADERSHIP VOICE LAB PROGRAMS

 

Choose a starting point.
Enter a practice.

 

The Leadership Voice Lab offers several ways to develop your leadership voice, presence, and influence - depending on your role, context, and the kind of impact you’re building.

 

1) Signature Leadership Voice Program

For leaders who want to strengthen executive presence, vocal authority, persuasive delivery, and leadership impact - through guided practice in real leadership moments.

 

Best for: high-visibility roles, pivotal transitions, high-stakes communication

Format: virtual, in-person, or blended

 

 

2) VIP Leadership Voice Partnership

A longer-term partnership for senior leaders who want ongoing rehearsal, strategic communication support, and refinement across the full range of leadership demands - as your context evolves.

 

This is where practice becomes a sustained edge: clarity, influence, and composure that hold across quarters, crises, boards, teams, and major decisions.

 

Best for: CEOs, senior executives, founders, high-responsibility leaders
 

Format: ongoing, bespoke, cadence-based

 

 

 3) Group Leadership Voice Practice

For leadership teams and senior leaders who want to strengthen how strategy, vision, values and direction are communicated, embodied, and brought to life - together.

 

Best for: Leaders who want deeper influence, a more enlivened leadership presence, and alignment with others.

Format: small cohorts · virtual or blended

 

 

4) Executive Online Audio Practice

A self-paced audio program designed for busy leaders who want to develop a more credible, compelling leadership voice - through structured vocal and delivery practice.

 

Use it as a stand-alone practice pathway, or as a resource that supports deeper work in the Lab.

 

Best for: independent practice, travel-heavy schedules, reinforcing technique

Format: self-paced audio modules + guided practice structure

 

Not sure what fits?

Start with a Leadership Voice Strategy Session - a confidential, practice-led conversation to identify what will create the most meaningful lift now.

 

 Find the right starting point - fast.

Book a Confidential Strategy Call

 

 

When leadership presence is practised - and is not performative - 
the difference is felt quickly.