Rena Cook

Rena Cook is a Professor Emerita at the University of Oklahoma where she taught voice, speech and dialects and is founder and CEO of Vocal Authority, a training consultancy for business professionals – attorneys, CEOs, sales teams, entrepreneurs, politicians - who want to speak and present in more compelling and authentic ways. She is the author of 4 books: Empower your Voice: For Women in Business, Politics and Life; Her Voice in Law; Voice and the Young Actor; and Breath in Action. Coming from the theatre world and involved in actor training for thirty years, she provides a practical and tangible process for making lasting changes in communication style to tame performance anxiety, increase power, build presence, gravitas and authentic authority. Raised in Tucson, AZ, she now lives in Tulsa, OK. Her guilty pleasure is voicing video games and character animation.