Trainer/speaker profile

Vivien Zuta

"You don't have to love speaking, but you should be able to." That is my ambition. Getting to know and using your own strongest communication profile is what I train with you. I like it when we can work together and laugh together - it has always worked so far.

Brief profile

Expert for communication & speaking. Active as a trainer, mentor & coach in large and medium-sized companies for 18 years. Always striving for communicative efficiency & eloquence and (almost) always ready for all outrageous deeds with humor. Specialist author.

Main areas of work

How do I come across? And how do I want to be perceived? Eloquent & confident communication, public speaking/ Presentation and presence especially for women/ Executive training/ Expressiveness and presence/ Efficient and targeted communication strategies/ Conveying complex content briefly and clearly/ Speaking & voice/ Body language & presentation/ Communication online & in presence/ Accent reduction/ Rhetoric/ Confidence training/ Business language, corporate language/ Verbal & non-verbal communication/ Presentation hacks/ Vocabulary work, metaphors and bullshit bingo

Professional experience

Lecturer at the UAS Frankfurt am Main since 2024
Lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2023
Independent trainer & consultant on the subject of communication since 2008
2017-2021 Acoustic brand management
2005-2006 Lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt

Qualification

Studied phonetics and Germanic studies (rhetoric/speech sciences)
Doctoral scholarship and research
Author of the book "Warum tiefe Männerstimmen doch nicht sexy sind - Das Geheimnis der Stimme", Scherz 2008.
Expert for voice and communication in TV, radio and print DACH
Certification as TEFL Business Teacher

Working languages

German
English

Publications

Phonetic criteria of attractive male voices. International Congress of Phonetic Science, 2007.
Why deep male voices are not sexy after all - The secret of our voice. Scherz Verlag, 2008.
Voice pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics. Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gesture, Gaze and Facial Expressions, 2009.
Hearing - self-perception and social evaluation. Hearing Acoustics 4, 2009 pp. 98-106.