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Raise the voice of your team to be confident and influential speakers under pressure.
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"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."
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
"Thanks to 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

Voices of Influence Program 

Raise the voice of your team to be confident and influential speakers under pressure.

"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."
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
"Thanks to 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 Voices of Influence since 2018

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

Reaching 1000 participants

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

Improvement for 100% our clients

100% of our programs have demonstrated measurable improvement which we measure with our proprietary survey, designed to capture and measure change, giving statistical proof and demonstrating return on investment.

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 1,000 participants

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

Improvement for 100% our clients

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

Program overview 

Voices of Influence is a virtual program run over three months with four stages designed to measure, train and support the voice of your team.
Each program includes up to 30 participants with one expert facilitator for every 10 participants led by Lucy Cornell and her expert team of voice and performance coaches.
Every session is live, dynamic and practical, where participants identify a burning topic they feel compelled to speak about, design it so their audience is compelled to listen, enhance their skills to deliver it with energy and connection and ultimately deliver it to a senior leader in the business in a friendly shark tank experience.
It truly raises the voice of your team giving them an audience with the people who matter.

Program overview 

Voices of Influence is a virtual program run over three months with four stages designed to measure, train and support the voice of your team.
Each program includes up to 30 participants with one expert facilitator for every 10 participants led by Lucy Cornell and her expert team of voice and performance coaches.
Every session is live, dynamic and practical, where participants identify a burning topic they feel compelled to speak about, design it so their audience is compelled to listen, enhance their skills to deliver it with energy and connection and ultimately deliver it to a senior leader in the business in a friendly shark tank experience.
It truly raises the voice of your team giving them an audience with the people who matter.

Is this program right for my team? 

Teams who have taken our Voices of Influence program include:
Top talent who have been recognised for leadership progression
Women as part of the business DEI strategy
Senior leadership teams who want to develop their influence and ability to inspire with their strategy, vision or story
Business unit leaders seeking to develop the confidence of their team
Keep your audience with you
Speak with energy and dynamism
Develop speaking confidence
Be eloquent under pressure
Hold court and have a voice at the table
Cut through with your message and delivery
Manage nerves
Sound compelling

Is this program right for my team? 

Teams who have taken our Voices of Influence program include:
Top talent who have been recognised for leadership progression
Women as part of the business DEI strategy
Senior leadership teams who want to develop their influence and ability to inspire with their strategy, vision or story
Business unit leaders seeking to develop the confidence of their team

Program Roadmap

Stage 1
Assess Benchmarking Survey

Stage 2
Deliver Practical Workshop

Stage 3
Support 30 Day Action Plan

Stage 4
Report Final Survey & Report

Tangible outcomes for your team 

Intentional Influence

Participants learn the act of intentional influence in speaking.

Rather than leaving it to chance, they learn skills to cut into their audience’s hearing, keep their audience compelled and then influence their audience’s behaviour toward the outcome they seek to achieve.

Raising Presence Through Voice

Going beyond traditional presentation skills programs, Voices of Influence seeks to elevate participants voice and visibility through the act of speaking.

It asks them to extend beyond their BAU role, to speak with vision, audacity and courage about ideas that matter to people who matter: to create their own opportunities to be seen and heard.

Embedded Skills and Accountability

Due to the energetic nature of speaking, participants work practically on skills to embed them. They test delivery techniques aloud with their peers to experience the impact and replay them to integrate feedback.

After the practical workshop session, participants are given a month of self regulated practice to apply their learnings in the business environment and to take accountability for their own learning.

Measurable Improvement

100% of our programs have demonstrated increased improvement in each team’s voice

Our Voice of Influence Survey measures the impact of the program, so we can demonstrate quantitative improvement and share qualitative data that describes participants’ experiences of speaking up under pressure.

Program Roadmap

Stage 1

Assess

Benchmarking 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 given access to their unique participant portal page where they can see their individual benchmark results in preparation for Stage Two.
Stage 2

Deliver

Practical Workshop 

Run virtually over 1 week (2 hours a day over 5 days), 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.

Monday 2hrs (full group of 30)
Tuesday 3hrs (full group of 30)
Wednesday 2hrs / group of 5 (6 groups)
Thursday 2hrs / group of 5 (6 groups)
Friday 2hrs / group of 5 (6 groups)
Stage 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.
Stage 4

Report

Final Survey & Report 

Participants and managers will re-take the Voice of Influence Survey.

Participants will log into their unique portal to view their final report comparing their benchmark scores with their final scores to see their improvement. This final report can be used for development conversations with their manager.

A Program Summary is also 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.

Lucy Cornell

Lead Program Facilitator 

Lucy Cornell has spoken in 18 countries to 10,000s of leaders at over 300 events globally.
As an author, speaker, and the CEO of Cornell Voice, Lucy has been empowering business leaders globally for twenty years.

Lucy is one of 400 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).

Lucy has been a specialist speaker for Young President’s Organization (YPO) events globally for ten years in Istanbul, Barcelona, Miami, Pakistan, Dubai, Oman, South East Asia, Sri Lanka, Australia, and New Zealand. YPO members are all CEOs of high net-worth businesses whose expectation of education is high.

Lucy leads an international voice and performance coaching team for trial advocacy courses run by the Australian Bar Association. She made a significant contribution to the performance skills of advocates at the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, Singapore Law Society, the New Zealand Bar and was asked to speak about performance skills for the International Advocacy Training Council in Malaysia.

Lucy’s corporate clientele range from CEOs and senior executives of blue chip companies such as McKinsey, IBM, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank to politicians, barristers and lawyers.

Lucy Cornell

Lead Program Facilitator 

Lucy Cornell has spoken in 18 countries to 10,000s of leaders at over 300 events globally.
As an author, speaker, and the CEO of Cornell Voice, Lucy has been empowering business leaders globally for twenty years.

Lucy is one of 400 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).

Lucy has been a specialist speaker for Young President’s Organization (YPO) events globally for ten years in Istanbul, Barcelona, Miami, Pakistan, Dubai, Oman, South East Asia, Sri Lanka, Australia, and New Zealand. YPO members are all CEOs of high net-worth businesses whose expectation of education is high.

Lucy leads an international voice and performance coaching team for trial advocacy courses run by the Australian Bar Association. She made a significant contribution to the performance skills of advocates at the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, Singapore Law Society, the New Zealand Bar and was asked to speak about performance skills for the International Advocacy Training Council in Malaysia.

Lucy’s corporate clientele range from CEOs and senior executives of blue chip companies such as McKinsey, IBM, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank to politicians, barristers and lawyers.

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​​​​​​​
“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

 
 FAQs 

Can anyone take this program?

Our Voices of Influence is designed for in-house teams. Cornell Voice does run public Voices of Influence programs.
In-house team programs are run for any group of employees or related stakeholders who want to develop their voice for influence.

What is the time commitment for participants?

Voices of Influence (run virtually) involves 13 hours of contact time. The breakdown is:
 
Workshop Week
Monday 2 hours
Tuesday 3 hours
Wednesday 2 hours
Thursday 2 hours
Friday 2 hours
 
Plus 2 x 45 minute debrief sessions 15 and 30 days after the workshop)
 
Plus 30 mins in total to complete 2 surveys on their voice.

How much administration is involved?

Cornell Voice manages the majority of the administration of the program. Our bespoke designed program portal allows participants to access their survey results dynamically and on demand, gives them access to program collateral such as the workbook and ongoing practice resources. It also designs our Program Summary to debrief the results of the program for the business.
 
The participating business will need to support Cornell Voice administratively in the following ways:
 
- Manage the online platform that hosts the virtual sessions
- Host the virtual sessions in real time
- Manage invitations and participant engagement
- Select participants and their nominating managers
- Communicate the value of the program to participants, managers and relevant stakeholders
- Assist in chasing up late surveys
- Nominate senior leaders in the business to observe and give feedback at the final pitch on Day 5

What is the participant experience like?

Voices of Influence is a blend of theory and practice. It is a dynamic, collaborative, informal exchange of ideas. Participants are expected to use their voice and participate vocally and physically. It is not an academic lecture where one person holds the information and disseminates. It is a sharing of ideas towards the creative act of speaking working with opinions, ideas, feelings as well as thoughts and logic. Once participant ideas are developed in writing, they then lift them off the page by speaking aloud and working ‘on their feet’, which includes a practical element of learning about body, breathing and voice.

I hate speaking in public? Should I really do this program?

Absolutely. It is the only way to deal with this fear. Our priority is to make this a safe space to examine and explore. Voice only comes from feeling safe. Right from Day 1, we set up a rehearsal room, collaborative, workshop space where all ideas and offers have space to breathe so they can be considered. Participants learn how to empower themselves to manage performance anxiety so that their ideas can be heard in a room. This is the safest place to address your fear.

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