During our life education and experience puts layers like onion skins over our authentic, expressive voices. The Leader’s Voice reverses this process to rediscover those voices.

The programme begins with each participant reading out loud something which is significant to them. The exquisite sound quality provided by the studio environment allows us to listen to our voices as they now are, and hear them in a completely new way. This first recording becomes the base of our exploration for the next two days.

That exploration covers three areas:

Authenticity at the level of voice: exploring the difference between how we feel about something, how we “connect” with it, and the sounds that actually come out when we speak;

Tools to support the authentic voice: sculptors, painters, musicians, architects and engineers all have tools that enable them to move from intention to expression and creation. The tools we introduce help authentic expression; they peel back layers of the onion. As with artistic tools, These techniques don’t replace creativity, but aid the expression of creativity and originality of thought.

The inner voice: an always present inner voice guides most of our actions. This voice most often reflects experience, memories and things we’ve learned from the past. A more subtle inner voice is guided by deeply held values and beliefs and a future we are trying to create. There’s often an inconsistency between these inner voices when we become are of them By taking that inconsistency out of our expression of ourselves, we enable authenticity to emerge.

The participants work as a learning team, giving each other feedback, exploring issues in dialogue with each other and coaching each other in the shaping of authentic messages.

Over the course of the two days, we work in parallel with the three areas of exploration. Working with feedback, tools and insights we bring out the Authentic Voice that resides within each and every leader and individual. The process culminates with the recording of a self-authored expression that integrates the learning gained through the process.