Meet the team

Dedicated experts with a proven record of success.

As a voice coach her past clients include doctors, academics, journalists, politicians, lawyers, bankers, actors, authors, artists, architects and the clergy. She has worked extensively in the field with companies including Ashridge Business School, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, EBRD, EY, the Foreign Office (FCO), Imperial College, Merrill Lynch, RNUAL and UBS.

Debra delivers workshops in house as required, as well as delivering individual training over Skype. She also provides training in voice over and microphone technique. This, together with accent softening where required, forms the basis of her preferred method of study. She also runs a private voice practice in London near Liverpool Street.

She has also worked as a voice and communication coach for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for the past seven years, having gained an MA in Voice Studies from Central (studying under the guidance of Jane Boston from 2010-11). She is also a Master Practitioner of NLP, working from a holistic standpoint as a coach and facilitator. 

With a rich background in acting ( 15 years) in Theatre and TV (mainly under the name ‘Leigh Samuels’, when her real name was unavailable from Equity), working in broadcast, (including a two year stint at the BBC as a TV Continuity Announcer) she also presents for the Homestyle division at QVC (16 years) and has delivered many voice overs (18 years) with a particular liking for dense technical scripts!

External Memberships

Equity, INV, VASTA

Carol works with clients in business, the media, education, government and the arts, and at all levels of organisation, from entry to executive performance. She also enjoys working with groups in education on confident speaking and voice for performance and as a lecturer in voice and text with trainee actors.

As a voice coach in theatre and television, projects include: ‘Shameless’ and ‘Skins’ - Channel 4, ‘The Jury’ - BBC and ‘The Worst Witch’ - Granada Television, and productions at Contact Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and the New Vic, Stoke.

She also works with the wider remit of communication in business, delivering programmes for management and leadership development, performance management, interview skills and diversity, incorporating forum theatre and applied improvisation.

Faith was brought up in a family with meditation and at the age of 16 was formally initiated into mantra meditation through the Advaita tradition at The Study Society in London. She was first introduced to Mindfulness at the London Buddhist Centre in 2000 and has continued to develop her mindfulness meditation since then, through her own practice, attending regular sittings and a number of 7-10 day Vipassna retreats in Asia and the UK. In 2010, She spent one week at Plum Village, in Southern France which was established by the world-renowned mindfulness monk, Thich Nhat Hanh. Jon Kabat-Zinn integrated the mindfulness practices of Thich Nhat Hanh and Zen Master Seung Sanh (founder of the Cambridge Zen Centre) with those of science to create his famous Mindfulness-based stress reduction now used widely across hospitals and other institutions.

In 2014, Faith’s husband was diagnosed with cancer and it became very apparent then, that meditation had many great benefits, offering a release of stress and a brighter mental outlook. Faith’s father meditated every day and was a true inspiration to her in his ability to remain calm and positive even when managing his own 10 year battle with various health challenges. She vowed on his death to take with her his beauty of spirit and endeavour to follow in his footsteps by reigniting her own daily practice of meditation.