WHO WE ARE
Resonance is a company led by Louise Kerr whose excellence depends on a small team of hand picked associates.
We are all professional performers and have long track records in either teaching vocal skills or in corporate training.
We offer a range of courses for educational establishments, companies and individuals.
Our highly adaptive approach can be tailored to meet most needs. In the last year, for example, we have designed courses for newly qualified teachers, civil servants, corporate executives, doctors, social workers, call centres, and university academics.
We also taught young people involved in the theatre and public speaking and others in need of interview skills.
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The topics that we have covered include:
. Presentation and communication skills
. Vocal skills for professional voice users
. Clear spoken English
. Personal impact and performance
. Vocal health and voice control
. Listening and empathy skills
. Assertive interventions at meetings
. Confidence building |
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Louise Kerr BA (Hons), PG Dip.Acting GSA, MA Voice.
Louise graduated in English Literature and followed this with a post graduate qualification in performance from Guildford School of Acting . She has an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama and was also finalist in the 2003 British Voice Association"Van Lawrence" Prize for her paper on single gender training for public speaking. As a television voice expert she appeared on C4's hit show 'Faking It' building the vocal confidence of a young would be video director. She was also the onscreen voice and movement coach to a string of celebrities in the Channel 5 series 'Celebrity Swap' changing the gender, race, class and age of the likes of Melinda Messenger, Mike Reid, James Hewitt and Linda Robson. As the founder and Director of Resonance she currently coaches and trains in industry and education running courses for, amongst others, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and many other public sector organisations and educational establishments. As an actress her performance work took her to the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and many of the country's repertory theatres.
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Louise Kerr Director
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Sasha Mitchell - Lead Associate
Sasha is an experienced professional performer in Theatre and Music Theatre and has worked for Resonance for the past two years. One of the earliest workshops she was involved in was for The Woolf Report working with lawyers and medical consultants on training for mediation. She teaches voice and singing for Clean Break and has also worked as a voice trainer with ex-offenders for CAST. Sasha has also taught at Millennium Dance 2000 when the school was based in Hampstead. In 2008, Sasha completed a Vocal Process Voice Training course with Gillyanne Kayes. Having begun working professionally as an actress at the age of 16 she continues to fit in television and theatre appearances between training workshops. She works regularly with Wonderful Beast Theatre Company.
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Sasha Michell Lead Associate
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Heather Keens ARCM. Dip Op RCM. MA Voice – Associate Trainer, Research and Development
Heather has had a long career as a singer in professional Opera, Theatre and Music Theatre. In 1988 she was a finalist in the Sydney Metropolitan Opera Awards. In 2001 she completed the MA in Voice at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Together with her corporate coaching activities through Resonance she is an Associate Tutor at Surrey University where she has taught singing and voice since 2004. She is also involved in a variety of research projects exploring voice and emotion with Dr Frank Millward at Kingston University. She has been an external voice and performance examiner in various institutions and taught Phonetics training for Vocal Process, London. She continues to perform professionally.
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Heather Keens Associate and Research
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Edward Halsted BA (Hons) Law - Associate
Edward has worked in drama-based corporate training for many years as facilitator, role-player and coach. He was born in London, read Law at Exeter University and then trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. His theatre work includes many leading regional theatres, the National Theatre, the West End and recently with the acclaimed Punchdrunk company. He won Best Actor at Edinburgh. He has a wide variety of tv and film credits, and his recent voice-over work includes The South Bank Show. Radio work includes four series of the popular comedy Like They've Never Been Gone.
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Sian Edwards- BA (Hons) - Associate
Siân trained with the School of Coaching and continues her CPD with the Academy of Executive Coaching. She has regular professional supervision at the Tavistock. Sian draws on a working knowledge of psychology (Jungian, Gestalt, CBT, TA) and is an accredited practitioner of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Siân is a talented business coach who combines extensive experience of leadership training with a natural ability to facilitate change in others. Working at senior levels, she has a particular interest in all the challenges faced by those in top leadership positions. Her approach is underpinned by 15 years’ experience working in management and leadership roles. Currently Sian is working with CEOs, directors and younger high potential leaders.
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Jill Connick. BA (Hons) , PGCE. MA Drama. Dip Law – Associate
With vast performance experience in theatre and television, Jill returned to further education, completing a Law Diploma in 1991 and training as a Barrister. She has had extensive experience as a facilitator of drama based roleplay training since 1995 and has led many workshops around various senior management issues . Jill also works with Scenario and forum theatre with experience in scenario based workshops, using a mix of learnt script and forum facilitation. She is qualified to administer and feedback MBTI (OPP); and qualified to administer Emotional Intelligence.
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Ros Simmons MA Voice – Associate
Ros graduated with an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama and was awarded the Certificate in Speaking Skills from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She trained as an actor in Manchester and has worked in Film, Theatre and Television. She has trained and facilitated in Communication Skills for GP’s, psychiatrists and medical students at many of the major teaching hospitals in London and in Cambridge. Her voice teaching has taken her to several leading London drama schools - Central, RADA, The London Centre for Theatre Studies, MD2000, and she works regularly at Mountview Theatre School. She also works with professional actors as an Accent and Dialect coach in film and television; most recently, ‘School for Seduction’ and ‘The Glass House’. Ros also coaches in presentation skills and pubic speaking and teaches Spoken English Skills to professionals who have English as a second language.
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Daniel Marc Russell BSc (Hons)- Administrator
Danny has worked as the administrator for Resonance Voice Training since February 2008 and has recently completed a BSc (Hons) in Sport Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention at Middlesex University. He also works as a personal trainer at Movers and Shapers using the Power Plate Exercise machine. Danny is currently building his own business as a personal trainer in North London and is a very useful advisor to Resonance on posture and body awareness. |
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