What Is a Voice Coach?

Lisa Lockland-Bell is a Leader in Vocal Communication. Her ability to Diagnose, Heal and Reveal the potential that lies within each human voice is Spectacular. A respected Keynote Speaker, Vocal Coach and Facilitator: With over three decades of experience, her unique perspective on vocal communication forms the foundation for her skill based speaking and training programs. Highlighting the importance of using your Voice for Positioning | Impact | Influence. Her strategies are innovative yet simple, with a clear framework that are unique to Speaking within the New World.

Why?

Lisa has studied vocal communication with the world’s best, performed as an opera singer and coached internationally for more than 30 years. The true richness in Lisa’s communication mastery comes from her profound battle with cancer not once, but twice, arousing a deeper exploration of how human beings communicate. With more than 20 years of research into alternative therapies and understanding of the inner voice, Lisa has combined her skill-based training with elements of survival, reinvention and core values, making her the expert on both the internal and external voices.

Now, passionate about building confidence within the individual and organisations: Lisa’s life work is to Change Results and lives one tone at a time. From tweaking your embouchure to getting the most from your resonating cavities, Lisa knows the human voice intimately. Now, she distils this knowledge into useful communication skills training. Whether it is an intimate one-on-one negotiation or working with a room of staff. Lisa has the knowledge to improve your vocal intelligence, presentation, persuasion, negotiation and public speaking skills.

How?

Lisa knows your voice has the power to break a heart, seal the deal or change the world. But, do you? From the first day Lisa started speaking and coaching, the hearts and minds of the people she works with have been the centre of her business model.Her strategic approach helps you release a restricted voice, soften a forceful tone, strengthen a timid response, make a deeper connection and break down the barriers to effective communication.

Today’s Topics:

• The importance of listening to yourself first.
• Attaching an internal voice to your external voice.
• How to listen and learn voice, listening, and emotional intelligence from an Opera singer.
• Remaining present on stage and bringing magic to the audience and understanding the conductor intimately.
• Being 125% ready or insecurity will step in and create tension in the body.
• Being intensely present, yet human and have humility.
• The conductor can hear the movement of the audience and tell if they are getting bored.
• Voice coaches help people have control over their voice and communicate on different levels.
• Six steps for improving your voice.
• Shift the mindset to understand what you are doing when speaking.
• You can change the way that you structure sound.
• Physical responses when listening to a voice which comes from vibration.
• Speaking with belief and leaving no room for interpretation.
• Synchronizing breathing for deeper listening and understanding.
• Breathing deeply and feeling intake of breath and bringing your brain into focus.
• Indicators of what is not being said such as gestures and body language.
• How deeply someone can listen, and the Armenian women speaking about Lisa.
• She was able to understand by observing and measuring the space between words.
• Lisa had learned all of the cues of timing and inflection and understood that they were talking about her.
• She is very attuned to what people speaking other languages need to speak English.
• An accent doesn’t hinder your ability to communicate it’s your intention and inflection.
• Feeling the pain and having empathy while listening and developing techniques and strategies to help younger people through the process of struggle.
• Asking questions about the lives of older people. Life attaches itself to the voice.
• For both men and women the emotion is just under the surface. For men, it is what is coming out of their mouths as opposed to tone.
• For women, listen with empathy.
• Learning to trust your gut and then daring to give it a voice.
• Being brave and doing what you are meant to do on this Earth.
• Listening for emotion with your right ear.

Links and Resources:

• Lisa Lockland-Bell
• Lisa Lockland-Bell on LinkedIn
• Lisa Lockland-Bell on Facebook
• @LLocklandBell on Twitter

Quotes:

“I’m listening for the nuances and inflections. I’m listening for when you make a statement are you actually landing the voice with the inflection because that gives me a feel of whether you know what you are talking about.” Lisa Lockland Bell

“I’m also listening for the way that you deliver and the timing and the cadence.” Lisa Lockland Bell

“There’s a space between the words that changes everything. Notice the speed. Notice the space.” Lisa Lockland Bell

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