Accent Reduction Training & American Pronunciation Training Program

Sandra is unique in the field of telephone accent reduction coaching and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and interviewed by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications regarding her expertise in improving executive speaking skills.

Many executives from international companies/corporations like Microsoft, Intel, Ernest & Young China, Comcast, Northrop Grumman, MCI, have successfully benefited from Sandra's executive voice and speech coaching and now speak with more command, confidence, clarity, authority, persuasiveness and power.

Her executive accent reduction training by telephone which is flexible and convenient, teaches you to be an outstanding communicator not only in live presentations but also in teleconferences, video conferences, international/cross cultural business meetings, webinars, telesales calls, interviews, negotiations & customer retention calls, which is how most business today is conducted nationally and world-wide.

The goal of Voice Power Studios' Accent Reduction Training and American Accent Training program is to help the bilingual or multilingual foreign speaker, no matter what his original language, be more easily and readily understood by the American listener. Rather than speaking with a perfect American accent which takes away from your cultural identity, we help our clients to communicate more easily and effectively in Standard American English and acquire more of an American accent.

Over 25 years of training, many clients have told me that their accent and lack of American Pronunciation was holding them back. They were hesitant to talk in meetings or with US colleagues. They talked too fast and were nervous to slow their speech in front of an audience. Their colleagues continually asked them to repeat themselves and in some cases were not willing to include them in team meetings because of their speech.

A recent client, who is the president of a computer technology company, spoke English with a Japanese, Portuguese accent and at a very fast speed. He confided that most of the time the English speaking employees could not understand him and this was his motivation for working with his American Pronunciation. He went on to say that oddly enough other foreign speakers could understand his English better than Americans. I said that I feel the reason for that is that people who speak more than one language, which many Americans don't, have more tolerance and are used to listening to English being spoken with an accent. However combining a heavy accent with talking very quickly definitely hinders effective business communication.