As an artist, introvert and hypersensitive person, I could have struggled with stage fright for a long time through my professional career. The conviction I HAD something crucial to share lead me to eventually realized that the only way to overcome it was to push it through. I found some relief with a fair amount of diverse training that was very targeted (breathing, voice projection, yoga…). That took me years, and each training, despite improvements, didn’t seem to solve the problem totally.
I was quite concerned for my career, until the day I realized what this ‘fear’ was trying to teach me. I not only overcame it; I learned from it both as an artist and as a person.
Transforming from terror to thriving, I can honestly say that I would not be the artist I am today if I hadn’t faced the challenges of stage fright, where I often felt like I was only showing 20% of my true abilities on my best days. Getting through it – and understanding it deeply – helped me to access and share %150 I even didn’t know existed in rehearsals.
Life and personal interests brought me to the corporate world. What struck me right away was how prevalent public speaking struggles were in that environment too. Even established leaders and executives often found it difficult to feel complete when presenting a vision or idea. This was a common challenge for both leaders and performing artists, but from a different angle.
I started with providing training programs to help corporate professionals improve their presence—covering topics like posture and voice projection, and how to relax before a presentation. A condensed training that had been successful for me, as an artist. While still sensible to me, with clear results, I felt – again – there was a deeper layer that needed to be addressed for a more comprehensive connection.
I began to explore the world I had yet to be a part of, studying the MBA mindset and how C-suite executives were trained in leadership and behavioral organization. This exploration led me to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. I noticed that MBA education tends to be heavily focused on logical-mathematical skills, while the analysis of artistic performances, when applied in a cross-disciplinary manner, could incorporate and engage a broader range of intelligences—such as kinesthetic, emotional, personal, and intrapersonal.
How to feel whole on stage and lead by your authentic self, is what my training is based on to help you bring your leadership and executive presence to a mastery level.