
Ryan O'Shea

Ryan O'Shea
Ryan O'Shea
OI Trajectory Completed
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Hi! I'm Ryan, and I'm a Los Angeles-based voice, speech, and communication coach with a background in performance (acting and singing).
Many of my clients are actors and singers interested in increasing their presence and ease in performance. Many are professionals interested in finding more clarity and vitality in their work, especially around communication, presenting, and other forms of public speaking. And many of my clients are people who feel a deep longing to connect with others but find that fear and nerves block their ability to find enjoyment in their communication.
My job as a voice and communication coach certified in Organic Intelligence® (OI™) is to spot how your system is using energy in ways that create dis-connection, and to help your system learn new forms of resilience so you can find authentic ease and re-connection while speaking or performing. Combining OI™ with other forms of voice and speaking techniques leads to sustainable growth over time to build new thresholds of energy, creativity and imagination, connection and communication, nuance and complexity, and emotional capacity, voice capacity, and breath capacity.
Your inner world is the foundation for your outer expression.
This is the principle that guides my coaching. My approach combines classical training tools and more contemporary techniques that integrate your whole system – sometimes coaching involves very explicit, traditional voice, speech, and communication tools and exercises, and sometimes, it’s more implicit work focused on integrating your whole system while speaking. At the center of my work is the belief that using your voice to communicate and share what matters to you with the world can feel good. This requires an understanding not just of the mechanics of your voice and speech but also how your inner world — what you think and feel — affects those mechanics.
My approach isn’t going to just focus on how you sound, but on helping you feel authentic and good about what you’re saying. For many years, I was offering my clients traditional voice and speech tools which focused on working almost exclusively with outer expression — pitch, sound, range, projection, etc. — and that all felt helpful to a point…but eventually, my clients would plateau so that the traditional tools were no longer helping them grow. When I started working with Organic Intelligence®, in particular, and learned about the interactions of the human voice with psychology, our nervous systems and more, that’s where I started to find an opening to help my clients reach new levels in their voice and communication. These shifts happened when I combined the tools typically used in voice and speech training that focus on outer expression with tools that aim at finding more ease, enjoyment, and connection to the inner world.
If you're interested in working with me, you can contact me to set up a complimentary call. This is an opportunity for me to hear more about your goals and challenges and for you to hear more about my approach. This will help us both feel out whether I'm a good fit for your goals.
Degrees: BS in Theatre from the University of Indianapolis (2008); MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University (2013)
Certifications: Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® (2014); Certified Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork® (2019)
- Level 1: OI Coach
- Anxiety
- Bodywork
- Burnout
- Education
- Embodiment
- Gender
- LGBTQIA+
- Movement Education
- Organizational Coaching
- Performance
- Post-Trauma Growth (PTG)
- Relationships
- Stress Management
- English