Leadership Voice, Presence, and Influence - developed through practice.
Great leadership is not performative - but it is performed.
What do others hear, feel, and take away when you lead?
Developing leadership communication, sharpened through rehearsal and performance craft.
Because leadership is felt as much as it is understood.
A confidential, practice-led conversation. Not a sales call.
Book a Leadership Voice Strategy SessionIn the Theatre of Leadership, you are front and centre, in the spotlight of attention.
Each day, as a leader, you move from scene to scene -
responding to shifting contexts, expectations, and pressure.
At times, your leadership calls for decisiveness. At others, for listening, steadiness, or restraint.
In critical moments you're called to inspire.
Often, you must hold complexity, make sense of what's unfolding, and bring others with you - in real time.
In these moments, your voice, presence, and capacity to hold the room determine your leadership credibility.
Welcome to The Leadership Voice Lab
Where Leadership Voice, Presence, and Influence Are Developed - Through Practice
The Leadership Voice Lab is Theatre of Leadership’s practice environment for leaders who want to strengthen how their leadership is expressed - and how their influence is felt - through voice, presence, and communication.
In the theatre of leadership, voice and presence are not bit players.
They shape:
- how ideas are received
- how authority is perceived
- how trust is formed, and
- how influence is exercised
In the Leadership Voice Lab, leaders learn, practise, and refine the craft of:
- Executive presence
- Leadership voice
- Persuasive communication
- Exercising influence
- Establishing credible authority
This work is for:
- senior leaders
- executives
- high-potential professionals
who want their leadership communication to be understood, felt,
and carry weight when it matters most.
These moments include:
- leadership conversations
- high-stakes presentations
- influence situations
- periods of change or uncertainty
- pivotal career transitions
Leadership presence is not a personality trait.
It is a practised leadership capability.
Explore How the Lab Works in Practice
CEO & Country Manager, Cigna, Hong Kong
Jonathan Spiers
I highly recommend working with Veronica and Theatre of Leadership for any executive who wants to drive change through clear, credible, and influential communication.
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.
It is a practice-based leadership environment for leaders who want to strengthen how their leadership is expressed, embodied, and experienced - particularly in moments where leadership is visible and consequential.
The Practice Leaders Develop in the Lab
The Leadership Voice Lab equips leaders with a communication practice that is:
🔺 Credible
Authority earned through 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 leadership practice is not learned once.
It is 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.
Leaders develop a revitalised leadership communication practice through a process refined over many years of work as professional voice coaches and leadership educators.
How the Method Works
Our proprietary method is supported by:
- professional guidance
- precise, developmental feedback
- tailored rehearsal
- targeted skill development
- reflection and refinement
- practice with real leadership material
Leaders work with real leadership situations - conversations, moments of influence, transitions, and challenges - and learn to inhabit leadership with clarity, authority, and confidence.
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 to:
🔺 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 for 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.
When inspiration is required, they are able to deliver it.
This is not a course.
It is a practice for mastery.
Leadership is not learned once.
It is practised until it becomes dependable.
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Pathways for Every Stage of Leadership
The Leadership Voice Lab offers different development pathways depending on your role, context, and visibility.
From individual flagship programs to group cohorts and audio-led modules, there’s a path for every leader to deepen their impact.
These include:
🔺 Individual - leadership practice for leaders in pivotal roles
🔺 Small group - practise for leaders developing range and influence together
🔺 Organisational - engagements to strengthen leadership voice at scale.
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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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What Leaders Develop
Leadership capability that stands up when it counts
Through sustained, integrated practice, leaders develop the capacity to lead reliably and with influence - not just when conditions are favourable, but when pressure, uncertainty, or visibility increase.
They are able to:
🔺 hold the room when stakes are high
🔺 remain steady under pressure and pivot when conditions change
🔺 resolve complexity into clarity others can act on
🔺 communicate with authority while staying responsive
🔺 adapt tone and presence as contexts shift
🔺 step into the spotlight with composure and intent
What emerges is leadership others trust instinctively -
clear in intent,
grounded in presence,
and compelling in action.
Leadership is built before the moment - not left to chance
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) 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
3) 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
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 CallHow the Lab Differs from Traditional Leadership Training
| Traditional Leadership Training | The Leadership Voice Lab |
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Focuses on concepts, models, and techniques |
Focuses on embodied leadership presence
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Often delivered as courses or workshops
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Operates as a practice-based leadership environment |
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Emphasises knowledge transfer
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Emphasises rehearsal, feedback, and refinement |
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One-size-fits-many frameworks
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Context-specific, leader-specific development |
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Insight-driven
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Practice-driven, experience-led |
| Short-term performance uplift | Sustained leadership impact over time |
When leadership presence is practised - and is not performative -
the difference is felt quickly.
Head of Investments, Stamford Investment Funds Management, Australia
Its been a transformational experience. I've seen tangible results in my ability to persuade, influence, and present the best version of myself resulting in a promotion.
Explore How the Lab Could Work For You
Leadership is judged in moments - by how authority sounds, how presence is felt, and how meaning lands.
The Leadership Voice Lab exists to develop these capacities - not as checklists, or theoretical techniques - but as practiced leadership behaviours.
So leaders can meet complexity with clarity, and opportunity with confidence and intent.
The Lab equips leaders with the guided practice, precision feedback, and the personal tailoring to be the leader they want to become.
This is where the transformation begins.
Book a Leadership Voice Strategy CallBook a Leadership Voice Strategy Session
Exploratory. Confidential. Practice-led.
A Leadership Voice Strategy Session is a focused, one-to-one conversation.
This is not a sales call. It is a strategic pause.
Together we explore how your authority, intent, and influence come through in your voice, presence, and communication - especially in moments that matter.
We discuss what's working for you, and what's not.
The session is designed to bring you some clarity and direction - whether or not the Leadership Voice Lab is the right next step.
