Heather Poduska

Heather Poduska is the performance coach for Boston-area service businesses who need to project their clear voice and be heard above their competitors. As a small business owner, personal branding strategist and classically trained singer, Heather is in a unique position to help you resonate with your audience. Fine tuning your repertoire, focusing your tone, eliminating extraneous noise, delivering with confidence and projecting the right image are all a part of finding a successful mix. During her career as a professional opera singer, Heather collaborated with many of the art organizations in the New England area including Commonwealth Shakespeare and Boston Lyric Opera. Heather honed her craft and polished her image and personal brand to win auditions and land contracts. After years of focus on her own development, it became her passion to help others understand and recognize and showcase their unique gifts. Following the birth of her children, Heather became much more about the people and community around her than the stage. She realized many of the same ingredients that make a successful singer also apply to entrepreneurs and small business owners, and found herself in a unique position to help service professionals refine their image and show them how to convey their unique promise of value to attract their own target audience. With her caring and firm support Heather challenges you to rise to the level of your own greatest potential. She uses her creative and prolific brainstorming capabilities to generate exciting and personalized strategies for capturing and connecting with your customers. Heather’s training as an image consultant, combined with her many years on dressing for auditions and performances, enables her to help business owners to create authentic and exciting visual images as well. Heather earned a bachelor’s degree Rice University in German and music, a master’s degree from New England Conservatory in vocal performance and is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists. A Reach Certified Personal Brand Strategist, she also completed her training as an image consultant at the prestigious London Image institute and is a member of the Association of Image Consultants International. In her spare time you can find Heather playing with her kids, reading personal development publications, volunteering in her community and teaching private piano and voice lessons. She is also fitness buff and logs about 20 miles a wee