About Us

Voice Coach Director, Poll Moussoulides, is Ireland’s leading Voice Coach and one of Europe’s most sought after Vocal Communication and Personal Performance Specialists. Over the last 20 years his skills have been employed to help thousands improve and optimise their vocal and physical habits, and feel more confident about how others perceive them.

Whether his clients have been internationally acclaimed Actors, Barristers, Financial Advisors, Call-Centres, Teachers, Sales Teams, Television & Radio Presenters, Government Ministers, Consultants, Coaches, Solo Entrepreneurs or Chief Executives of international corporations, all have worked with Poll to give themselves the dynamic edge that leads to enduring communication success.

Born in Dublin, Poll left Ireland to train at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Eastern Michigan University. After receiving his degree he returned in 1986 to become Head of Voice at the Gaiety School of Acting (now the National Theatre School of Ireland). From 1989-1992 he was Assistant Director to the School’s Director, Joe Dowling, and later that year he also was appointed Head of Voice at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin. He has been Voice Coach in all of the country's major Theatres and several in the UK, and has coached thousands of Actors, from absolute beginners to multi Oscar® award winners on over 48 Feature and TV films (Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Anna Friel, Jon Voight, Cillian Murphy, Richard Dreyfus, Kim Catrall, Roger Daltry, Andrea Corr, Joss Stone, Elijah Wood, Diane Wiest, Timothy Dalton, Brendan Gleeson, Sheila Hancock, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Angela Lansbury, Pierce Brosnan….) For a full list of credits click here. It was a particular honour when, in 1992, Poll was invited as a guest speaker and Voice Coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s symposium “Theatre Voice”. In 2006 he became the online Voice Expert at the VHI, and he is currently Head of Voice at the Irish Film Academy.

In 1991, he was appointed Voice and Presentation Coach to the Newsroom in R.T.E., where he continues to work with Journalists, Reporters and Presenters from Current Affairs, News, Sport, Young Peoples and Lifestyle Radio and T.V Programmes. At the Irish Management Institute he regularly delivered vital components to communication and leadership courses from 1992-2008. He is now an Associate Faculty Specialist at Edinburgh Institute of Leadership & Management Practice in Napier University and is part of the team that devised and delivers the world’s first experiential Masters Degree in Corporate Leadership. In September 2010 he will join the team of experts that delivers the High Performance Leadership programme at the prestigious IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

By adapting the principles of Actor training, Poll has created a practical and wholly attainable method for all voice users to communicate with greater physical confidence and vocal expertise. In 2010/11 his companies ‘Voice Coach Training’ & ‘Voice Matters’, will create and facilitate in-house training programs throughout Ireland, Europe and the United States. Clients have included individuals and teams from O2, IBM, Dept. of Finance, Johnson & Johnson, Irish Life, Equality Authority, Microsoft, Allied Irish Bank, Pfizer, Grant Thornton, Aegon, RBS, Garda Síochána, ESB International, Ernst & Young, Vodafone, Yahoo and Ogilvy.

Poll recently established the Irish Voice Association, and is also a founding member of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). He has appeared on many TV & Radio shows as a Vocal Communications Consultant. Constantly upgrading his skills since his degree, Poll has trained in Tai Chi, Alexander Technique, Broadcast Camera & Editing, Behavioural Patterns in Sales & Marketing, and has received a Master qualification in Neuro Linguistic Programming – all vitally combining towards his unrivalled record of helping other achieve excellence whenever they stand to speak. Poll is in the final stages of writing two books (on vocal fitness and vocal creativity in business), and these will be published in 2011.