Workshops – Seminars – Presentations – Masterclasses – Webinars – Conferences – Online Events.

Dr Marisa Lee has extensive experience working with the greater singing voice community and helping other voice professionals expand their practical knowledge, and further develop their skill set by presenting the most current information available in the field of voice training, based on research and science.

Dr Marisa Lee specialises in providing professional development opportunities to assist and inform singing teachers across all genres who work in private studios, higher education institutions, and in other contexts.

The exchange of information and sharing of ideas is also extended to other industry professionals such as voice specialists, industry professionals & emerging artists at a national and international level.

Your professional development event can be adapted to your group’s needs and designed around a variety of focused areas or specialist topics which include, but are not exclusive to:

• Training approaches for singers across contemporary commercial music (CCM) styles
• Contemporary commercial music (CCM) singing voice pedagogy
• Adapting a pedagogical framework for online learning
• Applying a student focussed approach to online voice training
• Repertoire & style: Creating authenticity and sustainability
• The vocal and professional demands of a gigging singer
• Impact of technology & the twenty first century music markets
• CCM verses classical voice training
• Voice care beyond the teaching studio
• All things vocal health
• Training young voices
• Auditioning skills
• Stage craft and movement
• Practice makes permanent
• Body, mind and singing for peak performance

Dr Marisa Lee Naismith has sustained an enduring career in the music industry for over 45 years, successfully transitioning into a variety of performance, teaching, academic and industry mentoring roles. Based on her wealth of knowledge and vast experience in the industry, Dr Marisa Lee shares her secrets to success and helps others create a sustainable income through her specialist business and personal development modules. Whether you are wanting to launch into a professional career as a performer in the entertainment industry or wanting to create a successful and profitable teaching studio, Dr Marisa Lee can guide you to the outcomes you desire through group training or individually focussed coaching sessions. Examples of the modules and presentation topics included in the business and professional development program include:

• Writing a foolproof business plan
• Creating and sustaining a reliable income from your teaching business
• Planning your next move to success
• Goals setting and motivation
• Developing your marketing plan
  
  
• Developing a business mastery mindset
• Reset, recalibrate and reignite your business and career
• The business of running a successful teaching studio
• Daily practices of highly effective people
• To benefits of running your own business
• Policies & procedures for your business
• Negotiating contracts
• The four step process into peak performance
• Being productive and stying balanced

Dr Marisa Lee Naismith shares her wealth of information & industry knowledge attained from her 45+ years as a professional performer to mentor others within the industry who are seeking guidance on their next career move. Dr Marisa Lee has a firm understanding of the demands and requirements that are necessary to forge a sustainable career in today’s music markets or other facets of the creative arts industry.

Dr Marisa Lee works directly with professional performers who approach her with a specific objective or directive for her assistance in executing their end goal. She also works extensively with emerging artists to help them identify their career paths and establish a strategy to help them achieve their professional objectives.

If you are a professional performer or an emerging artist and you are in need of guidance, Dr Marisa Lee can work with you exclusively as your industry mentor in any of the following areas:

• Developing skills and knowledge required to operate as a freelance performer within the creative arts industry.
• How to establish, follow up and regularly maintain a network of business contacts within the industry.
• How to identify and follow appropriate strategies to enhance professional reputation
• Developing marketing strategies and the marketing collateral required by a freelance performer, including assistance with the creation of promotional material including demo reels
• Managing financial and business aspects of freelance work
• Developing an individual business plan
• Negotiating contracts & workplace arrangements

All professional development opportunities are offered nationally and internationally, in person or online, in a group or individual session. Make the next move in your professional development and enquire now.