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“Inspiring, insightful, entertaining and charming…” Tim Noonan breathes life and joy into his conference keynotes and after-dinner presentations. He will take you on an enchanting journey of rediscovery into the power and mystery inherent in your own voice, and the voices around you. Every single voice tells its own unique and elaborate story, if only you know how to listen for it.
Tim Noonan is the creator of the ‘Vocology System’ principles and strategies which promote vocal understanding; foster expressive speaking and nurture insightful listening. Vocology arose from Tim’s lifelong study of the human voice. As a person blind from birth, Tim has learnt to listen for countless vocal cues that reveal so much more than the casual listener, and even the speaker, are aware of; and once enlightened, your way of speaking and listening can change forever.
An innovator in voice-based communication, Tim coaches individuals, speakers and voice artists in presentation skills and authentic vocal self-expression, as well as consulting to speakers and organisations to assist them develop natural and memorable vocal brands.
Tim also delivers an inspirational keynote titled ‘Seeing Things Differently’ and a technology access keynote titled ‘Creating Elegant and Accessible Websites’.
Tim has delivered presentations to organizations including Westpac, ING Bank, St.George Bank, The Australian Bankers' Association, Optus, Telstra, The Australian Electoral Commission, Naked Communications, The Advertising Federation of Australia, Vision Australia and The Australian Tax Office.
Tim has a degree in Cognitive Psychology and Education, with a particular focus on how people process and comprehend spoken information. Over the last 20 years he has blended his interests in information, technology and speech, to bring printed and online information to life for people who are blind or print disabled, by transforming it into spoken word audio. Tim also works as an auditory user interface consultant, designing and enhancing automated telephone services and directing voice-over artists in the studio.
Tim's formal studies also include a Diploma of Remedial Massage Therapy, a Certificate in Relaxation Hypnosis and studies in energetic and spiritual healing.
|  | A widely acknowledged leader in two very distinct professional domains, for two decades, Tim has worked both as a disability-technologist, and as an auditory human factors specialist/designer. This has involved researching, designing, advocating and informing people about software, technology, disability topics and societal attitudes to disability.
Tim is a contributing author for three books, has been published in peer-reviewed international journals, as well as authoring and publishing a wide range of commissioned reports and white papers in the fields of voice, technology and disability.
A gifted communicator, educator and mediator, Tim is committed to maximising the clarity, sincerity and effectiveness of all communication, whether through his professional speaking presentations and workshops, his radio and TV appearances as a knowledge expert, or in his work designing technology in ways that make it more natural and intuitive for people to learn, use and understand. |
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