Advance your Career with Sandra McKnight
International Executive Voice & Speech Coach
Sandra McKnight is a sought-after international executive voice, speech, and accent-reduction coach and the author of the training program, Your Voice Is Power in Business. She has been an internationally leading expert in the speaking voice for over 30 years, with clients ranging from Intel and Microsoft to Nestle, Google, and Facebook. In addition to conducting numerous interactive workshops for Fortune 500 companies, she has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes, workshops, seminars, and tele-seminars throughout the USA, Australia, and China. Thousands of people have enjoyed and benefited from her high content and charismatic speeches (particularly “Your Voice Is Power in Business” and “Charisma Is Made, Not Born”).
I cannot even measure the extent to which Sandra’s instruction has benefited my personal career.
Larry Marshal, Senior Manager, Frito-Lay Inc., Texas, USA
As an accomplished professional actress, singer, and comedienne in New York City and Los Angeles for over 20 years, it was while performing on General Hospital, in Los Angeles that executives, CEOs, and their teams began asking Sandra to share her performance expertise in voice, improvisation, and acting techniques. This quickly led to the creation of Voice Power Studio—for teaching others about voice, improvisation, performance, and creativity. Since 1986, Sandra has helped many executives achieve their communication objectives in the area of sales, negotiations, interviewing, conducting meetings, tele- and videoconferencing, giving business presentations, and reporting to their boards of directors and stock holders.
The coaching of Sandra in our oral proposal presentation was absolutely outstanding and clearly instrumental in our winning a most significant contract.
Jim Lozito, Sr. Executive, Northrop Grumman
Her voice and speech expertise has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Santa Fe New Mexican, and the Albuquerque Journal, and for many years she produced and hosted the “Sounds of Success” radio show.
Sandra has also supported the academic community as an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Community College. She wholeheartedly supports Toastmasters International and has spoken on Voice Power at many local, regional, and international Toastmasters events.
She is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, Inc., The Screen Actors Guild/ American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, and Actors Equity.
Her clients include Genentech, Nestle, Google, Facebook, Northrop Grumman, Intel, Microsoft, EDS, the U.S. Coast Guard, the British Petroleum Group, Ernst and Young, Asia, and many executives in various government and banking institutions, radio personnel and universities.
Sandra received a BA from Pennsylvania State University, and her training in voice, diction, and communication is from the Juilliard School in New York City. She studied acting with the renowned Lee Strasberg, as well as with Uta Hagen and Jose Quintero, and singing with Richard Fredericks of the NYC Opera. She has performed in film, TV, theater, and network and cable TV programs, many of which have enjoyed international syndication, including The Young and the Restless, Lou Grant, The Bold and the Beautiful, Divorce Court, and as the principal role of Nora Phillips on General Hospital. She has shot more than 250 commercials, received a CLIO award, and her voice has been heard in many voiceovers.
Her career began as a professional dancer in San Francisco nightclubs, modern dance troupes, and musical comedies. She has performed and taught comedy improvisation in Chicago, Dallas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico and was a U.S. representative for the International Theater Institute in a tour of European performance venues.
Currently Sandra performs her one-woman show The Magical Energy of Happiness, which has been heard in many women’s conferences, and cabaret rooms, most recently at the Society Cabaret in San Francisco. The Magical Energy of Happiness will be going digital next year.
Sandra is a force to be reckoned with. She has contributed numerous voice and laughter workshops to WESST over the years. She is a strong, determined woman who is committed to helping people–women in particular–learn the power of the energy we each carry within ourselves.
Bette Bradbury, WESST-Santa Fe
Sandra is a charismatic, humorous, and motivational speaker. I was inspired by her energy and enthusiasm for helping people improve the way they present themselves in the world. She is terrific!
Janna Bauer, HR Director, Comcast
For a Free Voice Analysis consultation with Sandra McKnight, make your appointment here
Winning Oral Presentation Training
We coach your proposal team to deliver the same outstanding proposal orally as you have on paper. We believe you win by creating an excellent solution to what the customer asked for in their RFP and then selling your proposal to the evaluators with confidence, credibility, enthusiasm and professionalism.
There has been an increase in requests for an oral component on Government proposals, because the evaluators want to see and hear whom they are hiring. Therefore, it is vital that you create a “lead presence:” that you create a picture of your team as a confident, professional, and poised group of credible experts that the evaluators will enjoy working with for the duration of the contract.
We specialize in coaching technical and professional experts who have limited or no previous presentation experience and suddenly are thrust into high-pressure presentation roles.
Our Goals for Your Team
- To make your oral presentation come alive by bringing forth the individual passion, expertise and enthusiasm of each presenter.
- To give your team complete control over all aspects of their presentation so that they deliver the message precisely the way they envision.
Voice Power Studios provides you overall direction of your presentation performance and one-on-one/ team training in:
- Presentation delivery techniques
- Blocking and Staging techniques
- Performance techniques for working in front of Video Cameras
- Answering questions with confidence and professionalism
One-on-one or team coaching includes:
- Breathing and relaxation techniques,
- Visualization, body movement and gestures,
- Communication skills, voice projection, enunciation,
- Animation, energy management and team dynamics, flow and timing,
- Positive word choice, grammar, vocabulary, words that sell,
- Creating a stage presence that gets audience attention and approval,
- Image and public persona development,
- Motivational support and coaching
- Question and answer techniques, and media staging.
All sessions include videotaping and instructor feedback.
Sandra McKnight's extensive experience in performing, coaching and directing enables her to coach and motivate your presenters to engage the selection board and to WIN. To read more on Sandra click here.
In addition Voice Power Studios provides professional training in film, television and radio techniques. We also work with outstanding professional videographers who provide an immediate, real time video of your presentation for the evaluators. Non-disclosure is implicit in all dealings with oral proposal clients. We keep confidential the proposal that we support until after contract award.
Testimonials
“You brought out the ‘actor’ in each of our presenters, allowing them to develop a stage presence and confidence in their abilities without diminishing the message”.
Al Collie, Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation
“The coaching of Sandra in our oral proposal presentation was absolutely outstanding and clearly instrumental in our winning a most significant TRW contract”
Jim Lozito, Senior Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation
For more information, please contact Voice Power Studios at sandram@voicepowerstudios or by phone at 1-877-273-2455 or 1-505-466-6500.
Private Executive Presentation Skills
Executive Speech Coaching and Speech Training is a two-day private coaching program that teaches you, a successful leader, to be a persuasive, compelling presenter who energizes, motivates and inspires an audience to action. You will learn effective tools to both perfect your speech writing and to create a charismatic delivery style that hits the target every time.
Sandra McKnight, a leading expert in the art of voice and public speaking, a professional actress, and an international speaker suggests that combining voice, and performance techniques with presentation skills is what adds that extra energy and enthusiasm to your presentation style, and gives you the personal power to express your ideas clearly, confidently, powerfully and spontaneously in front of a live audience, on camera or on radio.
Her proven private voice coaching and speech coaching program and techniques free you of anxiety, teach you to take control of the room, to command your listeners’ attention and to sell your ideas to your clients, employees, stockholders and the public.
A Voice Analysis Consultation from Sandra, combined with video feedback teaches you how to:
- Develop your unique personal strengths
- Enhance your public presence
- Focus your persuasive power
- Energize and motivate your audience, and
- Give an outstanding performance
Learn to:
- Free yourself of anxiety and tension
- Take control of the non-verbal messages you communicate
- Convey your thoughts and emotions more accurately
- Take your leadership space
- Use effective body language and movement
- Project a rich voice and with clear diction
- Incorporate eye sweep and facial gestures
- Use animation and to focus your energy
- Develop language and vocabulary skills
- Present in front of any type of audience
In addition, you have your choice of private voice and speech coaching in two of the following skill sets: Listening Skills, Facilitating Meetings, Dealing with Difficult People, Handling the Media, & Answering Questions with Powerful Word Choices.
Partial Client List: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Intel Corporation, Prudential Insurance, EDS Corp. Ernst and Young Inc., British Petroleum Group. Professional references available upon request.
For complimentary telephone consultation email , 1-877-783-2455 (US) 1-505-466-6500
Testimonials
"Sandra is a great coach and very skilled at bringing out the actor in us all. She opened my eyes to the potential that can be realized if speaking is performed in a way that connects with people through energy, personal emotion and voice. I look at my speeches in an entirely new way and the results have been very rewarding." Barry Ridgway, Regional Sales Director, Microsoft Corporation
"Sandra is a professional at ease with her coaching of voice power that helps a speaker make a lively connection between the speaker and audience. Her work transcends cultural differences with passion and joy." Eva Wong, President, Top Human Technology Limited, Shanghai, China
"Sandra has really helped me and others in our organization to get our messages across clearly and effectively to our people." Keith Reese, Vice President, Intel Corporation
"You brought out the actor in each of our presenters allowing them to develop a stage presence and confidence in their abilities without diminishing the message." Al Collie, Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation.
For more information, please contact Voice Power Studios at sandram@voicepowerstudios or by phone at 1-877-273-2455 or Sign-up for a Voice Analysis Consultation NOW!.
Private Voice Coaching
Customized Private Voice and Speech Coaching
Do you want to use your voice to engage, motivate and inspire others, and sell your ideas?
Is speaking with confidence, authority, self-assurance, persuasiveness and power important to advancing your career and increasing your business success?
Do you want to:
- Sound confident and self-assured?
- Sound powerful and persuasive?
- Project authority and credibility?
- Articulate your words clearly and distinctly?
- Engage people immediately with your voice tone?
- Speak with executive presence?
- Speak louder and less soft-spoken?
- Slow your speaking rate to be easily understood?
- Sound less nasal and squeaky and more resonant?
- Sound less child-like and more mature?
- Speak less monotone and more expressively?
- Modify your accent for greater speaking clarity?
- Deliver presentations that keep people’s attention?
If so our customized private voice coaching and speech coaching programs can help you. All voice training is conducted by telephone and scheduled at your convenience.
Want to engage, motivate and inspire others?
Call 1-877-783-2455 for your Free 20-minute voice coaching analysis, with Executive Voice & Speech Coach, Sandra McKnight.
According to a study published in Psychology Today, the sound of your speaking voice is much more important in making a first impression than what you actually say. Your voice communicates powerful non-verbal messages as you speak.
Unfortunately, we all can’t sound like James Earl Jones or Meryl Streep, however with “Voice Training Techniques for Success”, we can level the playing field.
Robert, general manager for a major US company, needed to sound like a VP. Although he had excellent skills, his boss felt that he didn’t sound authoritative enough in meetings and wouldn’t promote him to be leader of a division. Robert’s potential for advancement and increased income became limited by the sound of his voice. Together we created a confident, powerful, resonant, well-articulated, persuasive sounding voice.
Karen, VP of international sales, sounded too childlike and talked very fast when conducting telephone business meetings, with well over 80 people from all over the US on the call. Together we created a confident, mature, low-pitched, well-projected, articulate sounding voice.
Discover how our Voice and Speech Coaching programs can help you!
Call 1-877-783-2455 for your Free 20 minute voice coaching analysis with Executive Voice & Speech Coach, Sandra McKnight.
Your Voice is a catalyst for creating action. Speak with power and confidence and I guarantee you will reach your goals and objectives in your conversations, sales calls, interviews, presentations, teleconferences, tele-seminars, webinars, negotiations and much more!
Read what clients are saying.
"Now I feel confident speaking in a professional context, because I know I sound knowledgeable and mature. Sandra helped me to develop a completely new voice. I switched jobs and during my interview with my new manager, I made a very positive first impression simply because I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. I am so glad I contacted Sandra; not only did she help me drop my girly, nasal voice, she gave me a newfound sense of confidence to express myself." -Kate Pazoles, Personal Banker, HSBC Bank
"Sandra’s voice coaching gave me a positive speaking voice. For years, I struggled to be a good communicator and was totally unaware of the negative voice patterns I had picked up. With the help of Sandra's voice coaching, I am experiencing more positive and productive interactions at work. And,my relationship with my wife has never been better. The results have been phenomenal! I highly recommend Voice Power Studios.”-Matt Mendrala, CTO, An Internet Company
“Your Voice is Power in Business” Voice and Speech Coaching Programs include these “Voice Training Techniques for Success”!
- Your individualized Voice Image
- Breathing Exercises: the foundation for a strong Voice.
- Talking on the out breath: giving your voice energy and confidence.
- Pronunciation exercises: for clear and articulate speech
- Speech melody: for a colorful and expressive sound.
- Projection exercises: to engage the listener consistently.
- Volume Control: to be easily heard by any audience.
- Speech flow and rhythm: for a more dynamic speech delivery.
- Grammar exercises to insure credibility
- Accent modification exercises to be easily understood.
Use Your Voice to Speak with Confidence and Power, and Be More Successful!
Are you ready to discover how Executive Voice and Speech coaching can help you advance in your career and increase your income?
Call 1- 877-783-2455 for your free 20-minute voice coaching analysis, with Executive Voice & Speech Coach, Sandra McKnight or sign up below.
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Presentation Skills for Your Team
VPS Speech Coaching workshop gives you a confident, powerful, eloquent, spontaneous and persuasive delivery style that will engage your audience and move them to action. Speaking well in public is the # 1 skill that will lead to your success.
VPS Speech Coaching Workshop is a corporate in house two-three day workshop that can be adapted to beginning, intermediate and advanced presenters and is conducted in corporations, companies, businesses, schools and organizations both nationally and internationally.
Be a powerful, dynamic, confident, spontaneous, imaginative and original presenter.
This fun, highly interactive workshop merges professional performance techniques with traditional presentation skills and teaches you to handle your stress and fear, take control of the room, and structure and deliver your material.
Learn to:
- Think quickly on your feet/spontaneity
- Expand your energy
- Increase mental flexibility
- Expand your communication range
- Use body language and gestures effectively
- Let your voice be more expressive
- Animate your facial gestures
- Use the eye sweep to keep audience involved
- Have presence and take personal space
- Tap your creative story telling skills
- Use language effectively & increase your vocabulary
- Stay present in the moment
- Build trust and support in yourself and your audience
- Create and perform your personal charismatic delivery style
You will benefit from:
- Private needs assessment with instructor
- Personal instructor feedback
- Group exercises
- Individual presentation delivery
- Video feedback
- Video tape of your class work
- Limited enrollment
Who should attend?
- All whose success depends on excellent verbal and communication skills.
- Executives, Attorneys, Technology Experts, Financial Experts,
- Business leaders who need to inspire their teams
- Corporate leaders who realize speaking skills will elevate their careers
- Sales People who give presentations before groups or committees
- Entrepreneurs who realize speaking can add to their visibility and marketing
- Authors who need direction to convert their book to a speech
Types of presentations:
- Informative, persuasive, & motivational presentations
- Sales Presentations
- Conference & meetings
- Formal presentations
- One-on-one communications
- In-house communications
- Technical talks for technically challenged audiences
For more information, please contact Voice Power Studios at sandram@voicepowerstudios or by phone at 1-877-273-2455 or 1-505-466-6500.
