This work didn’t come from a single discipline. It emerged from decades of Dr. Jaclyn Normandie’s study, teaching, performance, and leadership across multiple fields.

• Six collegiate degrees, including a PhD
• Retired University Professor (University of Tennessee)
• Published Author — The Mindful Musician
• 25+ years coaching elite performers, leaders, and executives
• Certified in neuroscience of communication, yoga, TRE, EMDR, Reiki
• Black Belt Instructor in American Kenpo Karate
• Professional Singer, Dancer, and Actress still actively engaged in performing

This work is grounded in science, embodiment, discipline, and lived leadership experience, not surface-level speaking tips.

Most leaders believe they’re showing up confidently.
They feel intelligent, capable, successful.

Yet the way they think they’re perceived and the way others actually experience them rarely align.

That invisible mismatch weakens influence.
People hear the words, but they don’t feel the intention.
Connection slips. Opportunities fade without explanation.

Not because you lack skill or expertise—
but because your presence isn’t landing the way you believe it is.

Presence is the full experience people have of you: your voice, your body language, your expression, your energy, your environment, the intention they feel before you speak.

It is not performance.
It is resonance.

Imagine walking into a room (or opening Zoom) and feeling the atmosphere change.

People look up.
They pay attention.
They lean in.

Your voice feels warm and clear.
Your body communicates grounded leadership.
Your energy is focused and compelling.

Nothing about you feels forced.
Everything feels natural, aligned, unmistakably you.

This is what happens when your inner confidence and outer expression finally match.

At CEO SoundLab, I mentor leaders in the full expression of their presence.

We explore voice, physicality, nervous system regulation, energetic alignment, visual presentation, and leadership identity as one integrated experience.

This isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about revealing the most effective and magnetic version of you, and learning to bring that version forward with intention.

Authenticity is not rigidity.
It’s the ability to choose the part of yourself that best connects and leads in the moment.