| October 5, 2008
"It's Not About
Auditioning; It's about
Connecting"
with Isabelle Anderson
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Circles of Change: Conversations with Dr. Zara Larsen
on Change Leadership and Career Fulfillment
October 5, 2008
“It’s Not About Auditioning, It’s About Connecting”
Anchoring Points:
- Trained in live theater and movie acting, my career took me to Paris, Australia and America. I had just wrapped up the movie Great Expectations with Gwyneth Paltrow and decided to launch a full time career in coaching and communications – shifting back stage to help others perform.
- I help people overcome stage fright, teaching skills to be all that they can be when they are on stage or in the spotlight (one-on-one to small groups to very large audiences), in particular addressing the involuntary symptoms that derail them.
- Some leaders have a terror, not just a fear, of being invisible and not being heard or able to make an impact. We focus on presence, how to command attention in the room yet do so authentically. Not falling prey to kamikaze emotions, bullying, dominance, loud delivery or behaviors that really are not who you are.
- Most people do not like their own presence, and try to act like who they are not versus playing to their strengths. Trying to tell a joke when they are not humorous, being reserved when they are more naturally flamboyant.
- Performance communication is to know how to change gears via your body language, voice, eyes and a heightened energy level. What and how your project. It involves warming up and really working to be natural, avoiding being fake or pretentious.
- People are often obsessed with a concern for the words they are to say. I coach how information and communication are worlds apart. Until we work in a circular fashion on body presence and connecting with the audience, the content and performance energy cannot come across successfully.
- I am currently gearing up for the next big move in my career, considering how to take the “product” I have developed over 17 years – having let go of the silly stuff; the gems have stayed – and scaling up via writing a book and training others to get the good word out.
- To “get there”, I have to now change the rhythm of how I am walking. Personally change and maybe not even walk, but get in a Ferrari!
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