Global experts
on the speaking voice
for business professionals

VOICES OF INFLUENCE

TEAM PROGRAM

★★★★★

On a scale of 1- to a million, this entire course has surpassed a million. Not only did I discover my voice, but I discovered my purpose. The Voices of Influence program is something I did not know I needed. This course is something all of society needs right now. Now, I have a voice, a purpose and the ability to have a positive impact on my company. It is empowering.

Amanda Endicott

Claims Manager
Chubb USA

★★★★★

Wow. Just wow.
Thank you so very, very much. What a transformation.
To see their progress was beyond special.
Thank you. And thank you again.

Annette L. Sanchez

Senior Vice President
ESIS, USA

★★★★★

Thank you so much, Lucy. You have such a natural, authentic, engaging style and the content was absolutely spot on!

Deborah Graham

HR Business and Learning Partner
CIENA, Australia & APAC

★★★★★

We’re incredibly grateful for the partnership we’ve developed with Lucy and the team at Cornell Voice Advisory. We have just completed the 2nd year of our Accelerate Women program and the feedback we’ve received from participants has been exceptional. Our aim was to promote and provide a voice for female talent within our industry. We feel that, thanks to Lucy and The Voice Of Influence program, we have made significant strides in helping those females find their voice and platform.

Danny Ravenhill
National Business Relationship Manager, Chubb Australia

Delivering our Voices of Influence Program since 2018

to clients across the world with some organisations running annual repeat programs to develop embedded cultural change.

Reaching over 2000 participants

including feedback and support from their managers and providing participants an audience to demonstrate their voice to senior leaders in the business.

100% of our programs have demonstrated measurable improvement

Our proprietary survey is designed to capture and measure change over the program, giving statistical proof and demonstrating return on investment.

Program Design

Duration

4 stages run over 3 months

Format

Complete virtual delivery as hosted by the organisation

Participants

Up to 30 people per program for top talent, women, DE&I, leaders, career development, business teams

Facilitators

1 facilitator per 10 pax with our international team led by Lucy Cornell (View team)

Four Stages of Learning

1. ASSESS
Benchmark Survey
Each participant and their manager takes our 5 minute online Voice of Influence Survey. It measures 6 parameters of voice to benchmark their speaking in high stakes.

It includes 30 self rating questions for participants and 6 correlating 360 degree questions for managers plus 3 free form answers each.

Once data is collected each participant is provided an individual benchmark report in preparation for Stage 2.

2. DELIVER
Practical Workshop
Run virtually over 1 week, each participant will identify a topic they feel needs to be spoken, design it for their audience's hearing, structure it, learn skills for an engaging performance and then rehearse it. On Friday, they will pitch it to 2 senior leaders in the organisation in the form of a supportive Shark Tank.

Mon 2 hrs full group of 30
Tues 2.5 hrs full group of 30
Wed 2 hrs/group of 5 x 6 groups
Thur 2 hrs/group of 5 x 6 groups
Fri 2 hrs/group of 5 x 6 groups

3. SUPPORT
30 Day Action Plan
Our 30 Day Action Plan is designed to keep participants accountable by applying their learnings in real time business situations while getting support and feedback from their facilitator.

It includes a resources library with video warm ups, tips, tasks and inspiration.

Plus, 2 debrief sessions of 45 minutes for 5 participants on day 15 and day 30 run virtually with their facilitator.

4. REPORT & ADVISE
Final Survey & Report
Participants and managers will re-take the Voice of Influence Survey.

Participants will then receive a final report comparing their benchmark scores with their final scores to demonstrate improvement. This final report can be used for development conversations with their manager.

A Program Summary is provided and discussed with key stakeholders: head of team, executive, HR. This gives an overview on the return on investment, impact of the program and insights on participants for ongoing development.

Tangible Outcomes

For Participants

For Your Organisation

Define a compelling idea. Reframe and structure it so your audience can hear it.

Showcase talented voices to senior leaders in the organisation

Pitch your idea to senior leaders in the business

Using our survey data, quantify the improvement by participants and the overall impact of the program

Experience what it is like to speak with presence, confidence and commitment while in the presence of senior leaders

Inspire and grow a vocal culture of shared voice at the table

Build skills for an embodied delivery to learn what it feels like to speak meaningfully, ethically and responsibly

Invest in one of the keystone skills of business: an empowered voice of your people

Feel empowered to be a voice of change and leadership in the organisation or industry

Create an opportunity for your valued voices to bond in an energetic, engaging and practical learning environment

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Voices of Influence Content

Develop Presence in High Stakes

Presence in the boardroom

What gravitas and confidence feels like

A simple yet profound approach to being present

Vocal presence and energy

Being compelling: make your audience stop and listen

Tame Nerves and Gain Control

Understand the function of nerves

Stay in control under pressure

Make wiser choices when speaking under pressure

Techniques to manage your nerves

Change your relationship with your audience

It’s Your Voice. It’s Your Right

Why your voice matters and how it works

Personal voice assessment

Unearthing your voice story from birth to adult

The 4 Golden Keys to unlocking your influential voice

The relationship between voice and power

Discover the Secrets of Breath

The natural rhythm of the breath in speaking

Exploring your breathing patterns

Unhelpful shallow breathing

Do you hold your breath? Why and how

Using breath to speak with precision and potency

Realize the Power in Words

Lift your words off the page to make your ideas live

Have the audience hanging on your every word

The antidote to fillers – ums, ahs etc

The revealing heritage of our words

Understand eloquence

Enrich Vocal Quality

Access and develop your vocal range

Unlock hidden parts of your voice

Find dominant vocal patterns that compromise your voice

Commit to your voice so can be heard

Stay committed to your voice in the spotlight

Speak from a Need

Define an issue or idea that needs to be spoken

Identify why you need to speak this idea

Find the connection between your impulse to speak, how you feel and the words to articulate it from inside you out to the public

Defining your intention and actively seeking a response

Speak into your Audience's Hearing

Due diligence on your audience: how do they hear, what makes them connect, what is their need

Define your ask for you audience's hearing

Building your message using our elevated messaging structure

Crafting 'The Ask'

Working through our 4 layer framework for navigating positional behaviours that influence the communication. Managing your response to conflict, emotion, confrontation, seniority or a time poor audience

Our Clients

The Voices of Influence Program has been honed since 2018 with some of our clients running the program annually including:

Chubb USA
for early career talent (annually),

technology associates (annually),
women and multicultural talent

Chubb Australia
for junior board members (annually),
for female talent (annually),
for broker partners (annually)

Ciena Global
for senior leaders across Asia Pacific

ESIS USA
for top talent women

Super Retail Group, Australia
for women in leadership (annually)

MYOB Australia
for their senior leadership team

Aware Super Australia
for their talented leaders

TCorp Australia
across the organisation (annually)

Westpac Bank Australia
for their in-house legal teams

The Cornell Voice Advisory’s techniques build confidence in the boardroom. I no longer have senior management telling me they can’t hear me or that I need to be more authoritative.

Karina Kwan
Former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer Citigroup, Australia & New Zealand

Lucy Cornell has been an inspiration to barristers in England and Australia. She helps them make their voices heard, and their presence felt in court. Her brilliant techniques have been a revelation and are highly recommended to all those who aspire to practise the art of advocacy.

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Charles Haddon-Cave
Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Knighted 2011

Thank you for undertaking this journey with us and for the visible impact you had on each participant. The value of this work will pay dividends. The work you did was also soulful, which in corporate terms, is impossible to measure.

Ivy Kusinga
Chief Culture Officer, Chubb USA

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LEAD FACILITATOR & CEO

LUCY CORNELL

Over the last 20 years, Lucy Cornell has personally trained 1,000s of executives in 18 countries and spoken at over 300 events, to inspire people to change their world with impactful, influential and empowered speaking.

She knows the single most neglected opportunity in business is in the voice of its people.

No matter what technical skills people have or training they have received, none of that matters if they can’t express themselves and be heard.

Lucy’s central premise is that your voice is designed to express your power. But by the time you become a career professional and are expected to be a voice of influence, this natural expressivity has been civilized and contracted.

Having a voice of influence is your birthright. You just need the tools to revive your natural voice.

As a result of working with our techniques, leaders are more confident, more persuasive and feel more empowered.

Lucy is one of 200 Linklater trained voice teachers in the world with has extensive academic and practical experience training with voice tutors from Royal Shakespeare Company (UK) and as an actor and teacher at Shakespeare and Company (USA). She also holds a Masters of Applied Science in Voice Research (U.Sydney) and a Bachelor of Arts/Education (UNSW).

View all our Voices of Influence consultants here