Speak Clear is a sole proprietorship that was founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Davis.  Speak Clear’s mission is to help struggling speakers to become audience-focused, relaxed, purposeful, and articulate. 

 

Before Jeff started Speak Clear, he was an Adjunct Lecturer teaching courses at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York and St. John's University.   Jeff worked under Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik as an Adjunct Lecturer teaching a course titled “Voice and Articulation for the Business and the Professions” at Bronx Community College.  Dr. Vinik is the Humanities Division Coordinator and a Professor and Chairperson of the Communication Arts and Sciences Department.  Jeff worked with students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, aiding students to become engaged, audience-focused speakers, and developed an affinity for helping students to speak English more fluently without losing the use of their accent-of-origin. 

 

At St. John's University, Jeff was an Adjunct Lecturer teaching a course in Public Speaking at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences under Chairman Thomas Kitts.  

 

Jeff has a Master of Fine Arts in Performance from Rutgers University where he studied the International Phonetic Alphabet, in addition to the Skinner and Linklater Articulation and Speaking Systems with famed vocal coach and author, Patricia Fletcher.

Michael received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of California Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts with special emphasis on Dialect Acquisition.  He has taught workshops and classes at The New York Film Academy, Carroll University, Marquette University and UC Irvine.  Michael is also an accomplished actor and singer recently returning from the broadway national tour of Disney’s “The Lion King.”  Michael is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Carroll University.

Speak Clear's executive clients include Telefonica Inc., Sobol Enterprises, BBH Advertising, Bovis Lend Lease, Deloitte, and The Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce.