Janie van Hool of VoicePresence: 5 Ways That Businesses Can Help Promote The Mental Wellness Of Their Employees

Listening doesn’t have to mean agreeing, but it’s the recognition and acknowledgment of input that is having such a good impact on the culture of the team.

As a part of my series about the “5 Ways That Businesses Can Help Promote The Mental Wellness Of Their Employees” I had the pleasure of interviewing Janie van Hool.

Janie is an author, speaker, facilitator, and teacher in the art of brilliant communication supporting business leaders to connect with and inspire their people.

Her book — The Listening Shift — draws on the learning and experiences she gained as a RADA-trained classical actress, a voice teacher (she has an MA in Voice Studies), from her research into Performance Psychology at Edinburgh University and from her years volunteering as a listener for Samaritans in the UK (Samaritans is a charity whose mission is to reduce the incidence of suicides by providing distressed callers with a confidential space to talk and be listened to.)