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Is it time to jump start your Voice of Leadership? After a few extra challenging years that we’ve had, are you ready to start stepping up and speaking out more about your passion, purpose, mission, and business? This 7 week small group mentoring program in the ‘zoom room’ is for 7 dedicated people who are ready to transform their ability to step up and speak out. be it through public presentations, online videos, leading meetings, performance reviews, sales calls, customer conversations, or in a 30-second ‘elevator’ talk. The group is forming now - enquiries to sallymabelle@gmail.com, $497 includes a copy of ‘The Voice of Leadership’: Six Keys to Presence, Influence, and Creative Confidence’ book, email correspondence with Sally as needed throughout the program, and structured weekly activities to help you get your ‘voice of leadership’ in shape to handle the challenges you face with ease, grace, and poise. All this for a fraction of the cost of private mentoring. Contact Sally to apply.

Who is this for?

Professionals who depend on speaking in their work and who want to develop their presence, influence, clarity, connection, and confidence in the essential skill of ‘leadership presence’ in speaking.

Mentoring Outcomes:

• Speak with your ‘executive voice and presence’ and feel more confident/ have more impact in public speaking.

• Command respect and trust with colleagues and senior leaders

• Embody a more powerful personal presence

• Have a greater level of self-awareness around communication patterns

• Carry yourself with more gravitas, with greater intention and purpose.

• Communicate with an authentic leadership voice with more ease and enjoyment

Mentoring Programme - Sample Topic Areas:

Defining your Voice of Leadership 

• Overview of the substance of executive presence - body, mind & spirit

• Getting clear about who you are and your purpose

• Clarifying and embodying your core values in all you do

• Becoming more intentional about your energetic impact

Talking with conviction and authority

• Finding your voice of leadership - and speaking clearly and persuasively

• Managing the pitch pace, volume, and resonance of your voice to project confidence

• Listening, speaking, and thinking on your feet

• Practicing the Three R’s of projecting your voice

• Assessing your current strengths and challenges in effective leadership communication

Getting people to listen to what you have to say:

• Embodying passion and vision to create engagement with your listeners

• Learning the seven steps to creating a persuasive presentation

• Presenting your ideas with strong messages and conviction.

Staying cool, calm, and collected under fire

• Know your triggers to be able to better manage your stress

• Hone your ability to handle all situations with poise and grace

• Project confidence and decisiveness

• Practice improvisational speaking to increase free-flowing ideas

Using appearance, posture, and body language to your advantage

• How your appearance affects your perceived voice of leadership/ executive presence

• Looking and sounding comfortable and calm - making a great first impression

• Carrying yourself with positive body language

• Displaying effective facial expressions and eye contact

• Learning the importance of where you place yourself in a room/ around the table

• How to draw attention to yourself professionally/ owning the space

Program Outline:

Pre-Program: Receive a copy of The Voice of Leadership book - complete pre-program self-assessment confidentially online, share your challenges and ideal outcomes with Sally 

Week 1: Key#1 - VOICE - assessment and exercises - What may be  blocking your full voice of leadership? Vocal articulation, projection and prosody (vocal variety of pitch, pace, pauses, and resonance)

Week 2: Key#2 -VISION - Keeping your eyes on ‘the bigger picture’..defining your story’ vision, purpose, Strategic illustration to engage your whole brain creativity- insights in clarifying your 

Voice of leadership declaration.

Week 3: Key#3 VALUES - Clarifying values to inspire courage to change, enhancing intention/ purpose of your life and work, resolving any conflicting values, getting honest with your time and priorities

Week 4: Key#4 VITALITY - Prioritizing your self-care on all levels including posture and bearing, promoting your inner critic to inner coach, cultivating the 10 types of positivity, developing playfulness to enhance your creative confidence, nurturing your social connections for greater health and influence, practicing mindfulness to activate your ‘flow state’.

Week 5: Key#5 VISIBILITY- practicing attention-getting techniques, storytelling to engage your listeners, learning the 7 steps to an engaging presentation, practicing the seven steps to powerful presence, creating a 60-second elevator pitch to explain who you are and what you do.

Week 6:Key#6  VENERATION-  Practicing mindful self-compassion and self-respect, developing assertiveness, strengthening emotional literacy of feelings and needs of self and others, the art of conversation, and gaining awareness of your dominant behavior type and interacting with others in the four major behavior types

Week 7:     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -  Celebration/  Review/ Next Steps and action plan for moving forward 

About Sally Mabelle, The ‘Voice of Leadership’ specialist

Sally has spent the last 30+ years developing her voice of leadership mentoring programme…helping professionals to express their authentic voice, presence, awareness, confidence, emotional intelligence, and communication skills. Combining her professional background in acting, voice coaching, education, psychology,and mindfulness meditation,, she helps people to be clear, confident, and connected with themselves and others.

• Trained Professional Vocal Coach and Actor 

• NZ’s leading authority on ‘The Voice of Leadership’ 

• Award-winning Inspirational Speaker, Author and International 

Mentor & Trainer/Facilitator  (USA, Australia, NZ, Pacific) 

• M.Ed. (Masters degree in Education), Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia 

• Bachelor of Arts (hons), Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Virginia 

• Spiritual Psychology, 325-hour certification program, University of Santa Monica 

• 85+ client testimonials on Linkedin

Sample client testimonials: 85+ on linkedin

“Sally has an exceptional voice for leadership. As a motivator, mentor and educator she is inspirational, truly authentic, encouraging, and very approachable. In her workshop she provides great practical tips, ideas, memory tools, and confidence building exercises. She has plenty of stories and relative information to back up her examples. Sally has a great gift for communication and supporting others to find their authentic voice of leadership. She should be training world leaders! 

Ruth Greenaway, Story Producer, Historian:  Weaving Stories Together

“I am extremely grateful to have been connected with Sally when searching for a coach to help me build my personal presence. Over seven months I learned so much more than expected - as we traversed the skill sets of Voice, Presence, Vision, Values, Veneration and how these could be applied to current issues at work and home. Sally's skills in acting, singing, coaching, spiritual psychology, education, result in a unique combination which I found fascinating, uplifting and empowering. The world needs more people with the skills Sally brings - I wish her all the best as a cultural change agent.” Adrienne Darling, Network Strategist, Manager of Investment/ Business Casing,  Auckland Metro Former Head of Economic Regulation and Pricing, Auckland International Airport

“Our Massey Executive MBA students had the good fortune to have fun, inspiration and powerful learning with Sally teaching them "the voice of leadership" -- voice, presence, and authenticity in presentations and leadership. MBA students reciting poetry? Did they ever . . . with passion!” 

 Ted Zorn, Professor of Organisational communication at Massey University

“I am eternally grateful for the great progress Sally mentored me to make in our Voice of Leadership course.

The tailor-made techniques and tools Sally developed for me have helped transform my Voice of Leadership from enunciation to delivery.

Sally also brought other perspectives into the learning process: Vitality, Mindfulness, Veneration, Self-compassion and how they all work together to drive your learning and life journey.

Sally is an inspirational mentor and coach with exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge. If you are seeking to improve your Voice of Leadership, Sally would be the choice and you will be amazed how far you can go!

Thank You Sally!” Sam Zhong, Global Buyer, Fisher and Paykel Appliances

Contact Sally to enquire about programme details and to apply. Programme includes 6 one hour weekly online mentoring sessions plus support and practical exercises on expressing your voice of leadership: six keys to presence, influence, and creative confidence - tailored to participants' needs. Note: Auckland time will be (GMT +13) 

The programme will include discussions and exercises based on Sally's new book, The Voice of Leadership: Six Keys to Presence, Influence, and Creative Confidence.

Is this for you?  Inviting active leaders, entrepreneurs, job seekers, career changers, coaches, trainers, and facilitators to apply.

Week 1: Voice

Week 2: Vision

Week 3: Values

Week 4: Vitality

Week 5: Visibility

Week 6: Veneration