Dr Louise Mahler is a communication specialist and the foremost expert in the psychology of face-to-face engagement.

With a PhD in Business, and degrees and post-graduate studies in Service Management and Music, together with a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Louise combines her years of professional performance on the European opera stage to put her in a league of her own. These skills blend to bring powerful observation that elicits discernible, positive change in those with whom she works.

In the process of completing her award-winning PhD, Louise observed a ‘missing ingredient’ in corporate leadership around the unsung wisdom of the mind-body-voice connection she calls Vocal Intelligence.

Through her innovative work, Louise developed a unique program that teaches the skills to perform in hostile environments so that you can ‘be heard’, both loud and clear.

Her energy and enthusiasm for her topic is presented with palpable expertise and large doses of humour, energizing audiences to achieve things they never thought they would and come out better for the experience

Louise has worked with politicians, business leaders, managers and groups, providing education and opportunities for personal, team and organisational improvement. Positive results abound in lessons for leadership, presentation, inclusion and sales – all the fields where presence matters and influencing skills sort the amateur from the professional.

She considers the mind-body-voice connection to be ‘a complex creative tool for effective personal and professional development and a source of deeper understanding and cultural awareness

Louise shares with the audience new and simple techniques to manage their state, resulting in an integrative personal presence. She aims to give participants a greater awareness of how to express themselves, how to avoid habitual patterns, how to resonate fully with purpose

She has been referred to as ‘The Wizard of Aus’ and when Dr Louise Mahler takes the stage, her audience is treated to a mixture of transformative education combined with a polished artistic performance.

Her focus is on highly participatory activities, which are conducted with humour and in an environment informed by her musical masterclasses experiences in Europe. Her signature style is fun and candid, full of high doses of humour, reflection, energy and passion. Participants can’t help but get involved in her highly interactive sessions; conservative corporate audiences find themselves breaking patterns and doing things they never thought they would and come out more confident and empowered people through the experience.

Her book entitled ‘Resonate’ is the bible for everyone who wants to unlock their true potential and self-confidence and allow their message to resonate and to ‘be heard’.

Louise is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, corporate coach and executive mentor internationally. She is often called upon to appear as an expert commentator on radio and television and regularly writes for prominent Australian publications

Speaking Topics Include

The Currency Of Trust

Authenticity and trust are now inescapable. People demand them from financial institutions. From leaders. From everyday brands. They are fundamental to success.

Technology is helping, but also hindering. There is no replacement for interpersonal excellence.

In this presentation, Dr Mahler presents practical skills for building credence and restoring the building blocks of trust.

InVISIBLE: For Women In Business

Diversity and inclusion are not achieved without encountering challenges. But in-visibility is a choice. You are responsible for your destiny.

This presentation is about breaking down the barriers, being clever about how you engage with hard conversations, and giving of yourself without hesitation.

It’s about the five key barriers to visibility and how you are responsible for removing them.

Missing Ingredients Of Leadership

Leaders must inspire and engage. That task is more complex than it has even been, a combination of interpersonal skills and the power to navigate today’s communications ably.

Dr Mahler investigates the roles of body language, vocal psychology and patterns of conversation that control presence and influence. Her insight and experience will change the way you think, act and speak to achieve respect and authority.

Overcoming Performance Stress/Towards The Light

PURPOSE: Virtual Program/Live Keynote

Many of us are under stress and the old techniques are not serving us in a Covid-ravaged-world under the magnifying glass of the digital camera. Many struggle to speak, be heard and get the critical messages across succinctly.

Let’s break the myth! Taking a deep breath and relaxing has not worked and in this presentation, we will re-think your patterns and processes in a highly interactive and fun engagement. Dr Mahler will share the 7 key physical and vocal skills and techniques to break your patterns of stress and discover that a framework is the key to feeling secure, sounding trustworthy and exuding professionalism with every word.