About

Lisa Dale Jones, Public Speaking Coach/Owner
Speaking with Soul

My professional background:
Before forming Speaking with Soul in 2006, I spent five years running the speaker training program for the Board of Lectureship, a Boston-based international speakers bureau comprising over 50 professional spiritual healers and speakers from all over the world who give over 1,800 talks per year. I coached the speakers individually, and I designed and led workshops at international training conferences in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

For nearly ten years I was a successful producer and on-air talent for Monitor Radio, the broadcast edition of The Christian Science Monitor, winning the prestigious Gabriel Award for reporting with the “ability to uplift and nourish the human spirit.”

I keep digging for the answers to questions like these:

• What engages an audience?
• What moves them to a new place?
• What interferes with communication and how can it be eliminated?
• How can the speaker’s presentation style support the material
  presented and make it real?

My work with clients helps answer these questions in ways that are useful
for them. I don’t teach a certain way that speaking “should” be done. Rather,
I work with each client to bring out his or her unique best way of effectively
communicating with an audience and getting them to take an action.

My experience:
I’ve done this successfully over the years with executives giving important
speeches at annual meetings, with newspaper reporters switching to public radio,
with student groups, and with professional speakers from nearly every continent
on earth. I’ve conducted speech and media training meetings for speakers in
Johannesburg, Vienna, Heidelberg, London, Washington DC, and Boston.

My background informs the way I coach: as a vocalist, I use analogies from
music and singing. As a reader, I look for the depth and draw of good storytelling.
As a journalist, I dig for clarity and accuracy. As a spiritual thinker, I encourage
clients to listen for ways to inspire and enlighten their listeners.

Contact me to explore ways we can work together.

Lisa receiving the Gabriel Award from Nick Clooney (on right)