Speak to Achieve

Your voice is more than the sound you make. It’s the connection you create. Speak to Achieve provides straightforward, practical advice to help get people to listen, care, remember, and respond.

The communication tips, techniques, and insights in Speak to Achieve help you connect with your audience, build trust, capture attention, and turn your words into meaningful results. Whether you’re speaking one-on-one or to a crowd, in business or in everyday life, in a classroom or a boardroom, on stage or in front of a camera, the principles apply. From interviews and presentations to virtual meetings, trade shows, podcasting, broadcasting, teaching, preaching, sales, courtroom proceedings, sports announcing, and voice-over performance, Speak to Achieve helps you make every speaking opportunity count.

Bestselling author of There’s Money Where Your Mouth Is and Voice-Overs for Podcasting Elaine A. Clark brings her real-world experience as an actor, coach, and instructor to Speak to Achieve. Along with practical techniques for connecting with your audience and achieving meaningful results, Clark offers insights to help you improve the sound of your voice, stop overthinking, and speak with greater confidence.

Through interviews with clients who share how they’ve personally applied these techniques, you’ll discover how to put the principles into action. You’ll also find a practical checklist to help you move forward with excellence and a scorecard to measure your speaking success.

Whatever the situation, whoever the audience, this book will help you Speak to Achieve!