OUR WORK
What Sets Us Apart
The difference between communication advice and communication training.
Communication training often begins in the head. Frameworks, tips, and mindset shifts can be useful ways of thinking about speaking. But thinking about communication is not the same as changing how it actually happens.
At Vox Vera, we work at a different level. We train the physical instrument of communication itself — breath, voice, posture, attention, and the embodied use of language. This is performance craft: the kind of training used in fields where communication must hold under pressure, in real time, with consequences.
A Physical Discipline
Communication is not abstract. It is physical.
Breath, posture, vocal resonance, and presence shape how language is received long before content is evaluated. When those elements are untrained, even strong ideas struggle to land. When they're coordinated, communication becomes clear, credible, and felt.
Our work begins there.
Training that Holds
We teach only what we have trained ourselves and what holds up under real professional conditions.
Sessions are physical and practical. The work happens in the room, in real time, on the instrument itself. Techniques are demonstrated, repeated, and applied under pressure — the same conditions clients face in courtrooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and on stage.
If it can’t be practiced, repeated, and sustained, it isn’t part of the work.
Presence Is Trained
Presence is not a rare personality trait, projected confidence, or a showy performance style — it's an innately human quality we're all capable of inhabiting.
We can access it through specific physical practices: learning to arrive ready, aligned, and intentional, and allowing information to flow cleanly between speaker, listener, and space.
Listening Is Part of the Craft
Speaking and listening are inseparable.
Listening with equanimity and respect — without aggression or collapse — is a trained capacity that shapes judgment, trust, and collective functioning.
At Vox Vera, listening is taught as part of the same discipline as speech and presence. It's not ancillary; it's fundamental.
Who This Work is For
Vox Vera works with lawyers, senior leaders, and public figures who understand that durable communication capacity is trained, not just read about.
This work is exacting. It is physical. And it rewards those willing to train at that level.
Our Background
Vox Vera’s founder and coaches bring experience across law, business, academia, and the performing arts — including BigLaw litigation, Fortune 50 executive leadership, and professional performance with LA Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, and leading classical and theatrical companies.
Paul Marchegiani is the only U.S. attorney and former senior Fortune 50 executive certified in Patsy Rodenburg’s voice and presence method, taught at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has taught communication and public speaking at Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School.