When the Stakes Are High, Your Communication Should Reflect Your Leadership
Something changes in your voice, your breath, your words, when the moment matters most. Most people are told to manage it. We start by asking what it's actually telling you.
You already know how to communicate.
The work is making those abilities more available under pressure.
What brings you here?
My communication changes under pressure.
I'm not sure where to start.
Not sure whether you're dealing with a voice concern, a communication-under-pressure pattern, or a combination of both?
Let's determine the best starting point.
A different approach to communication under pressure.
BRAVE is a structured, personalized approach for professionals who communicate well, but notice that something shifts when the stakes rise.
Rather than focusing only on what to say, we look at what happens across breath, voice, body, language, and nervous system state. From there, we build more reliable access to your communication when the pressure is real.
Hi I'm Martha Rice, Speech Language Pathologist
For more than 20 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of voice, communication, and human physiology.
Through clinical practice and training in nervous system regulation and somatic approaches, I came to recognize something important: when communication changes under pressure, it isn’t always a communication-skills problem. Pressure can change the physiology you rely on to speak, think, and connect.
That insight led me to develop BRAVE – Communication Under Pressure, an approach that brings together voice science, nervous system regulation, and embodied practice—so your communication is more available when you need it most.
Wonder why your communication changes under pressure?
Watch the free 10-minute training to understand what may be happening to your breath, voice, body and access to language when the stakes rise—and why more preparation isn't always the answer.