Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is one of the UK’s leading accredited conservatoires, providing dedicated training within a purpose-built environment within the University of Surrey.

We provide voice coaching for organisations, entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals who would like to speak with clarity, impact and confidence. Our voice coaching prepares you for presentations, public speaking, business meetings, and interviews, and covers areas such as:

  • Clarity: Ensuring your words are easily understood. Clear, expressive and articulate speaking.
  • Projection: Learning how to make your voice fill a room without shouting.
  • Pacing: Avoiding speaking too fast or too slow.
  • Breathing: Controlling breath to support stronger, longer, and more relaxed speaking.
  • Tone & Resonance: Pronunciation, intonation and accent reduction ensuring a rich, pleasant voice that resonates with listeners.
  • Vocal Health: Techniques to prevent strain and maintain vocal longevity.
  • Body language and facial expressions.

 

Why Is Business Voice Coaching Important?

Effective communication is crucial in professional and personal settings and can provide you with greater ability to influence and inspire others. In business, how you say something can sometimes be more impactful than what you say. A strong, confident voice can:

  • Improve leadership presence.
  • Build trust and authority.
  • Enhance presentations and public speaking.
  • Create a lasting impression in meetings or negotiations.

 

Who Can Benefit from Business Voice Coaching?

  • Executives & Leaders: Enhance authority and presence in meetings and public speaking engagements.
  • Sales Professionals: Improve persuasion and clarity in pitches.
  • Public Speakers: Speak confidently to large audiences, control nerves, and deliver memorable presentations.
  • Teachers & Educators: Maintain vocal health and engage students with a more powerful voice.
  • Non-Native Speakers: Improve pronunciation and fluency in business environments.

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Voice coaching at GSA is offered by industry-leading professionals who specialise in the field of Voice training. Our Voice coaches have a thorough understanding of the anatomy and physiology of communication; how the degree of our voice, body language and spoken words can affect effective communication.

Voice Coaching Options

Group Session

Develop presence and have a greater impact through improving your communication skills. Become an effective communicator, in the office, at networking events, and with colleagues. Learn how to utilise the body, breath, and voice to have greater presence in the workplace!

Who should take this course?
Introduction level – This course is ideal for those who are new to exploring their communication skills.

What can you expect from this course:

  • Develop the fundamental skills to having greater impact in the workplace.  
  • Explore and understand your own vocal profile and how it’s affecting your influence.  
  • Learn techniques to improve vocal and physical communication.
  • Develop exercises to prepare yourself to be a compelling communicator.

Outcomes and Objectives

  • An insight into body language, and physical presence.
  • Greater confidence
  • Staying calm under pressure
  • Self-awareness and the art of listening  
  • Reading the room, holding space and engaging with attention
  • Preparation techniques for speaking with clarity and purpose

By the end of this course, you will begin to understand the impact you are capable of having and the confidence to apply it.

Fee: £250pp

Next session: February 26 2025, 10am - 4pm. Book here.

For any queries, please email gsaenquiries@gsa.surrey.ac.uk.

 

1 to 1 coaching sessions

Discover the power of you and your vocal facility through personalised coaching and vocal development. Become more self-aware and gain the confidence to release your best self. Gain a richer understanding of your personal traits, habits, and communication styles whilst learning the fundamentals of voice and effective communication to enhance your personal and professional presence. Learn how to utilise the body, breath and voice to have a greater presence in the workplace!

Sessions are 1 hour long and the number of sessions is tailored to suit client needs.

Who should take this course?
Ideal for anyone wanting to develop their skills and awareness to develop and enhance their presence and performance.

What can you expect from this course?

  • Develop the fundamental skills to having greater impact in the workplace.  
  • Explore and understand your own vocal profile and how it’s affecting your influence.  
  • Learn techniques to improve vocal and physical communication.  
  • Exercises to prepare yourself to be a compelling communicator.  
  • Tailored and specific coaching techniques, personalised to you and your needs.

Outcomes and Objectives  

  • An insight into body language, physical presence
  • Greater confidence
  • Staying calm under pressure
  • Self-awareness and the art of listening  
  • Reading the room, holding space and engaging with attention
  • Preparation techniques for speaking with clarity and purpose
  • Making the most out of what you have to offer
  • Discovering and developing your personal vocal facility

By the end of this course, you will begin to understand the impact you are capable of having and the confidence to apply it.

Book now for sessions commencing 26 February 2025. To discuss your requirements and fees, please email gsaenquiries@gsa.surrey.ac.uk.

 

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Voice Tutors at GSA

At GSA staff have taught voice, speech and singing throughout our 90-year history. Today, The Voice team is led by Chris Palmer.  

Chris Palmer: Chris trained at Rose Bruford and Central School of Speech and Drama. As well as teaching voice here at GSA on the taught degrees, she has coached in Norway and Geneva for the World Economic Forum and Global Fellowship, and was Communications Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons. She has worked as a vocal coach on numerous shows including the West End production of Mama Mia!, and has taught at many leading drama schools. Chris has published articles for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Her book Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre (2019) is published by Methuen Drama.

 

Adam Wallis: Adam Walls is a Senior Lecturer in Voice at GSA. Adam is a performer, practitioner and educator of voice and voice studies across academic and professional industries.

Adam’s teaching and performance credits include The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Arts Ed, Rose Bruford, The BRIT School, Spotlight, BBC, ITV, Sky One, Abbey Road Studios, Radio1 Live Lounge and has supported numerous high-profile artists.  

Adam is a graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MFA Voice Studies), The Academy of Contemporary Music (BA Hons Contemporary Popular Music: Singing) and a certified practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

 

Jenny Tullett: Jenny Tullett is a Lecturer in Voice (part-time) and teaches across many programmes including Acting, Musical Theatre, Actor Musicianship and Applied and Contemporary Theatre at Foundation, BA, and MA/MFA Level. Current subjects taught include Speech Skills (Practical Voice), Voice and Text (Applied Voice), Voice and Accent Coaching on Productions/Projects and Voice Maintenance.  

Jenny is a keen researcher and continues to explore new ideas in voice, singing, vocal anatomy, voice pedagogy, accents, dialects and teaching in industry. Her current interests lie in The Carer's Voice and 'making invisible voices, visible' by creating spaces for those voices to be heard.

Her work as a Voice and Accent Coach on shows alongside Directors and MDs has also taken her to work on community and professional projects both nationally and internationally. The current production Jenny is supporting will be performing at the famous Minack Theatre, Cornwall.

 

Barbara Ward: Barbara is a Lecturer in Voice and has worked extensively in theatre, television, corporate videos and voiceovers. Barbara has worked at several drama schools as both a practical voice, dialect and text teacher and continues to work across both MA and BA courses striving to improve and enhance vocal practices and enabling the understanding of how to tackle text. Barbara has also worked with individuals wanting to improve their vocal delivery at work or for social situations.

We employ a range of highly experienced Voice coaches and practitioners to support our work here at GSA, whether that is to coach one-to-one, lead a group Voice workshop or teach GSA students on their BA, MA, MFA or Foundation programmes.

 

Related:

MA Teaching and Practice of Voice and Singing

This practice-based interdisciplinary is designed to build upon students’ existing experience and expertise, in either or both disciplines. It will provide a unique opportunity for the research and development of specialist vocal techniques appropriate to the demands of professional interdisciplinary performing arts, which may include both spoken text and singing. It also has the integrated feature of offering both voice and singing training.
MFA Teaching and Practice of Voice and Singing

This practice-based interdisciplinary allows students to deepen and extend their learning over a sustained 2-year programme, offering the opportunity for further development of skills in voice and singing pedagogies, greater opportunity for observation and shadowing of professional practice, and the opportunity to gain a qualification (MFA) which has international recognition.
Book GSA Singers for events

The singers present a fully functional and staged program of material from musical theatre and popular classics and are available for corporate functions, private and charity events and concerts. Our singers have performed at a variety of venues including Buckingham Palace, Royal Albert Hall, Hong Kong, Cadogan Hall, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and Drury Lane Theatre as well as local Community Centres and Village Halls.