Meet Your Hosts
Two leading experts in voice, communication, and leadership development bring you practical strategies for managerial excellence.
About Juliet
Considered to be one of the most respected and effective Voice and Presentation Coaches in Australia, British-born Juliet has been coaching executives in how to present at their best for over 40 years. She founded The Voice Business in 1983 and has been at the helm ever since, helping many thousands of people communicate with confidence.
Juliet has devised a particular system of training that takes executives step-by-step through analysing, practicing and perfecting their delivery of information. She incorporates mind, body and proven techniques to assist executives to fully integrate and maintain what they have learned, so that under pressure they perform at their best with ease.
Juliet is also one of the country's most experienced voice-over narrators and accent specialists and she uses this skill to construct and de-construct how to form or reduce an accent. She is called upon to assist executives from overseas who are needing assistance being clearly understood in English, which she does with grace and sensitivity to cultural concerns.
Background & Experience
Juliet was brought up in a business family, her father being Chief Executive of several large companies over his lifetime. She learned a great deal from her father about managing companies and set out to establish her own shortly after graduating.
A natural entrepreneur, Juliet established The Voice Business in 1983 in order to deliver voice and presentation skills training to the corporate sector. The training courses extended into the world of entertainment and advertising, following a request by all the television stations to train new presenters in media and broadcasting skills. Juliet has a passion for technology and the Internet and keeps totally up to date with the latest developments in IT, software, AI and virtual delivery techniques vital for today's executives.
Areas of Expertise
Qualifications & Memberships
• Bachelor of Psychology (hons)
• Bachelor of Arts - Theatre Directing (hons)
• Directing A.F.T.R.S
• Master Practitioner NLP
• Dip speech LAMDA (UK)
• Cert IV Training and Assessment
• Member of Australian and American Film Institutes
• Member of Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Honor Society
• Member of The Australian Voice Association
• Member of Voice and Speech Trainers Association
About Larry
Larry has extensive experience as a leadership and management coach, facilitator and program designer. He works with leadership teams and individual executives to help them improve their capabilities in people management, team leadership, communication, managing and leading performance and leading change.
Larry is the founder and lead partner of the Frontline Management Institute which has developed thousands of managers and leaders through coaching and facilitation over the last 20 years. Larry works with people at all levels of management from aspiring leaders to CEOs and their teams.
His early studies at Cambridge University focused on psychology which has formed the foundation for his teachings and his extensive writings on leadership.
Background & Experience
After graduating, Larry worked as an Editor for a film encyclopaedia before joining the International Publishing Corporation where he was trained over several years as a manager working in HR, Production and Sales becoming Northern Assistant General Manager responsible for the production and distribution of over 1,000,000 newspapers a night.
He then took postgraduate qualifications at London University and moved into education, focusing on workplace based learning in which he became a Senior Lecturer at UTS (University of Technology Sydney).
As a writer of documentary films he has received many awards, including the prestigious AWGIE Award for best Documentary. Based in Australia, he has a strong interest in and connections in Asia, and was co-founder of the Asian Arts Institute of Australia.
Areas of Expertise
Qualifications
• Bachelor of Arts (Cambridge University)
• Master of Arts (Cambridge University)
• Postgraduate Certificate of Education with Distinction (London University)
• Certificate of Vocational Teaching (ITATE)
• Diploma of Leadership and Management (FMI)
• Diploma of Learning and Development (FMI)
Coaching Approach
Larry takes a very practical and flexible approach to coaching that is needs driven rather than theory based. Coaching begins with clear identification and discussion of goals and aspirations with coachee and organisational sponsor.
The needs identified are prioritised by the client. A range of approaches are then used to develop capabilities from straightforward skill development to analysing the psychology which will support their leadership approach. The focus is always upon applying approaches to leadership in the workplace; reviewing what happens and working towards improvements.