Judy Apps - Voice and Speaking Skills For Dummies

Voice & Speaking Skills For Dummies

by Judy Apps

Voice & Speaking Skills For Dummies

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About the Author

Judy Apps is an international voice specialist, coach, author and inspirational conference speaker. She has spent many years unravelling the secrets of how great leaders inspire and for 20 years has coached people from all walks of life from leaders in major international corporations to executives, politicians, media people and all who want to understand the voice better and communicate with more influence. Judy is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and a fully qualified NLP Trainer and member of the NLP University Global Trainers and Consultants Network. Her popular Voice of Influence open programmes in London include workshops on coaching, voice and influence, leadership and communication, and NLP.

Judy is the author of two books: Voice of Influence How to get people to love to listen to you, a fascinating mind-body approach to finding your authentic voice and expressing yourself with integrity, presence and passion; and Butterflies and Sweaty Palms 25 Sure-Fire Ways to Speak and Present with Confidence invaluable reading for anyone whos ever faced the fear of public speaking.

Judy is passionate about voice, knowing that by changing your voice you grow in confidence and miracles begin to happen in your life. She combines a thorough vocal knowledge with a whole mind-body approach thats fascinating and highly effective. Her energy and humour are infectious, and her dynamic techniques and highly intuitive way of connecting with peoples inner potential have enabled hundreds of people to achieve great leaps in their speaking, charisma and, above all, personal confidence.

Dedication

To those who speak with a voice of truth we surely need more of them!

Authors Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Kerry Laundon at Wiley for her initial belief in the importance and topicality of a book on voice and in commissioning me to write the book. My grateful thanks too to Rachael Chilvers and Brian Kramer for supporting me through the writing, and to all the production team at Wiley. They are a fantastic lot, all highly focused on producing a book thats the best it possibly can be.

Where does a book come from? So many threads came together to create this one. Long ago, I remember breaking out from the conformity of traditional singing lessons one afternoon and experimenting freely with new ideas with a colleague very fruitful, thank you Carl! I remember listening to an eloquent speaker with a rich voice at a conference on another occasion and suddenly realising that his opulent voice was boring me reflecting on that brought important new insights, so thanks, whoever you were. I remember the excitement of beginning to explore mind-body connections through bio-energetics thank you Alexander Lowen. Such precious threads are too plentiful to enumerate. They include many of my coachees through both their successes and failures. They certainly include many wise voices from the exciting world of books.