Helping you speak up, speak out, and be heard with confidence.
Meet Sophie Scott, Integrative Creative Voice Coach on a mission to enhance your confidence and improve your professional connections.
Founder of InDialogue, Sophie Scott, wearing yellow blouse with vetiver green plant beside her, introduces her work with clients.
Vocal coach, confidence coach, presentation skills and professional coach.
I help leaders, women, graduates, and parents feel confident in how they communicate. I believe we all have a voice worth hearing and that each of us can create lasting impact. My approach is grounded in research and theory alongside lived experience as a performer, teacher, lecturer and editor. This ensures I understand my clients’ multiple experiences and can support their individual needs.
I’m a qualified Vocal Coach and a Therapeutic Arts Facilitator. I have degrees in English Literature & Language and Acting.
I’ve worked as an executive coach since 2016 and have spent years in business: as an Editor and Assistant Literary Scout in Trade Publishing; as an Employability Coach in the Charity sector working with women survivors of slavery and human trafficking; and, in the Arts sector working in the Executive and Artistic offices at the Royal Court Theatre. I’ve worked in academia as a researcher, senior lecturer and supervisor of Vocal Pedagogy/Coaching, focusing on the relationship in the room, conversation, and spoken voice.
I spent 20 years as a performer, singing teacher and voice coach, touring the world with plays and musicals, as well as performing on radio and screen. I know first-hand what it is to feel terrified at just the thought of speaking up. Whether in meetings, auditions, rehearsal rooms; at PTA gatherings, around dinner tables, and waiting-in-line at school pick-up, I know what it is to doubt my own voice, my own abilities, my own value.
I loved performing, but — and not many people believe this when they meet me — putting myself forward and making myself heard gave me incredible anxiety. My hands would shake, my breathing grow shallow. All the preparation for songs and speeches was countered by my nervous system going into flight mode. I stepped back from my career as a professional performer, leant into publishing, lecturing and coaching, and have never looked back. In helping others find their voice, I found my own.
Reflecting on how better to understand and practice communication and connection completely fuels my day.
My experience of seeing myself, colleagues, friends, and strangers be shut down by louder voices, as well as my ongoing inability to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ when it came to my own public-speaking, led me to study the science of communication and voice. Specifically, voice is fundamental to the shaping and maintaining of relationships and I’m fascinated by how and why.
My Approach
I integrate Attachment Theory with persuasion, turn-taking and social meaning-making from Conversation Analysis. I bring together practices from coaching schools (such as Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, and Acceptance Commitment Coaching) with exercises from speech and language technique (in particular, the Accent Method), and the vocal coaching of the renowned and excellent Kristin Linklater and Christina Shewell. All this knowledge and expertise is applied to designing a programme specific to your needs, creating something entirely unique to and for you. Just like your voice.
How is this helpful?
This integrative approach means that all coaching is absolutely bespoke to the client in front of me. You will always be considered for your needs, your situation, here and now.