OUR WORK
Performance Skills Training & Experience
The Only Performance Skills Consultancy Combining 20+ Years of Biglaw and Fortune 50 Leadership Experience, World-Class Stage Performance and Coaching Training, and Elite University Teaching Credentials.
Some performance skills and public speaking coaches bring significant drama, improvisation, or communication theory training to the table, but haven't actually walked the walk as a senior corporate leader, high-stakes dealmaker, or trial lawyer.
Others offer impressive corporate or legal credentials, but haven’t studied, practiced, and taught physical delivery and the art and craft of communication seriously enough to effectively assess and correct fundamental performance issues.
Vox Vera is unparalleled among communication skills consulting firms in that it combines time-tested and sound performance skills knowledge with Founder/CEO Paul Marchegiani's real-world experience across the highest levels of business, law, academia, and the performing arts.
Patsy Rodenburg Associates
Vox Vera coaches hold prestigious Patsy Rodenburg teacher training certifications involving extensive full-time voice, presence, and Shakespeare text study and practice with the world’s foremost voice and presence coach.
Vocal Performance & Opera
Paul holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice & Opera from Northwestern University, combined with 10 seasons performing with the world's leading conductors and musicians at LA Opera, San Francisco Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Biglaw Litigation
Paul holds a J.D. from Berkeley, where he was on the Moot Court Board, U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly, and served as a Written & Oral Advocacy TA and an undefeated member of Berkeley's championship mock trial team. With summer associate positions at Jenner & Block (Chicago) and Orrick (Silicon Valley), and 5 years of prestigious Biglaw litigation experience in the San Francisco offices of Orrick and Morrison & Foerster.
Paul is a member of the California Bar, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Law Placement (NALP), the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC), the Professional Development Consortium (PDC), and the PD Providers Network.
Hollywood Dealmaking & Fortune 50 Leadership Experience
Paul has 15+ years of high-level talent negotiation, advising, and leadership experience at the world's leading media and tech companies, including Warner Bros., Amazon, and NBCUniversal.
Improvisation & Theatre
Paul has trained or worked for over 15 years with America's top improvisation companies, including The Groundlings, Impro Theatre, Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, Sills/Spolin Theatre Works, and Studio ACT. Paul studied acting at Northwestern, Studio ACT, and Juilliard's Summer Drama Intensive, and honed his on-camera skills with Annie Grindlay Studio in Los Angeles, and Vox Vera coaches have trained with some of the world's top acting teachers, including Larry Moss.
Vox Vera's deep improvisation and theatre foundation helps professionals listen, move through conflict nimbly and purposefully, solve problems creatively, stay present, and navigate mistakes and nerves when failure isn't an option.
Law School Thought Leadership
For over a decade, Paul has developed courses at top-10 law schools, including Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School, teaching popular courses on "Entertainment Law: TV and Film", "Presence: Performance Skills for Lawyers", "Public Speaking for Lawyers", and "Communication Skills for Business Lawyers".
By teaching some of the nation's top minds and proving our cutting-edge methods at the nation's leading universities, Paul understands how to help highly analytical professionals consistently access their powerful voice as speakers so they can impactfully connect and persuade.