How to Get your Voice Heard

Arts & Business NI

A Creative Training Bitesized session from Arts &amp; Business NI. Discover how to get your voice heard in any setting.

The Black Box

Learn about the body language, breathing techniques and non-verbal habits that allow some people to get their voices heard in formal and informal situations. Find out how you can grow your authority in keeping with your own style and values.

S﻿peaker Bio: Andrea Montgomery is a theatre writer and director with 70 professional productions to her name. Andrea was born in India and grew up in South East Asia. She has worked for more than 30 years in the theatre on projects in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Iran, Canada, France, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Greenland, Egypt, Ireland and the UK. Fifteen years ago she set up Northern Ireland’s only dedicated professional intercultural theatre company.Andrea works globally with business, government and third sector organisations, providing arts-based training and 1-2-1 coaching. Her past clients include: PWC, JP Morgan, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal National Museum of Science and Industry, the London Eye, the Wales Millennium Centre, Northern Ireland Victim Support, the RNLI, Ulster Rugby, Leinster Rugby, Leinster Women’s Rugby and the Irish Rugby Rookie Camp. She has also helped politicians and business leaders across the UK and Ireland.On an individual basis Andrea specialises in helping people, especially women, to hold their authority and presence under pressure in public arenas, whether having a difficult conversation, giving a presentation, making a business pitch or facilitating group processes. She also really enjoys training in networking and cultural diversity.She is a dyslexic, partially deaf, a cyclist and hugely interested in the public understanding of science and the environment. In 2018 she published her first book of cartoons.