Work
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ELIZA
Eliza runs retreats, delivers talks and keynotes, facilitates workshops, and is an executive coach.
She helps people build emotional intelligence and improve communication with immersive keynotes, workshops and coaching.
Individuals become more confident as their voices are more valued, and their ideas better received.
Teams become more resilient, collaborative, and productive. Organizations thrive.
Eliza uses her academic expertise and training as an acting instructor to empower audiences and share practical tools and tips for transforming their lives. Her powerful method of engaging audiences in any forum has been described as “invaluable” and “thrilling,” making her one of the most sought-after thought leaders in the industry.
Executive Coaching
The people Eliza works with want to level up their careers. She works with them on thought leadership, presentation skills, media communication, collaboration techniques, and handling difficult antimentors. Eliza doesn’t try to change people but instead neutralizes weaknesses which may be holding them back and taps into their unique strengths.
Group Workshops
Eliza’s workshops give participants customized concrete tools to better communicate, collaborate, and lead, positively impacting productivity, retention, and employee engagement for any organization.
Drawing on her academic background, and decades as a pioneering acting teacher, participants find her fun, fast-paced and highly interactive sessions transformative. Organizations report significant improvements in leadership capabilities, innovation, and organizational performance.
Acting Studio
Founded in 2001 by Eliza VanCort, AWI is a standout acting studio where novices, seasoned actors, and directors grow together. Founded in Ithaca, NY, home of Cornell and Ithaca College, AWI educates diverse students from all over the world. Some seek to become actors, some to turbo-boost their careers, and some to build the confidence they need for a more satisfying personal life.
Our alumni in the arts thrive as directors and actors in TV, feature films, and NYC stages. Others credit AWI for enhancing their public speaking and executive presence, nailing everything from board presentations to expert congressional testimony. Today, our tight-knit community supports each other worldwide.
Eliza specialized in the Sanford Meisner Technique but ultimately modified it to suit her most inclusive, welcoming vision. She’s most proud of the additional semester she created, “Emotional Preparation,” a transformative tool which teaches students to harness any emotion they want in any situation. She also teaches people to understand what they are feeling, read other people, and verbalize their feeling and ideas without second guessing their intuition.
Students attest to its impact. One business professor reports, “Since I took this class, never once have I walked into a meeting out of control of my emotions.” Another said she would not have been as confident stepping into the position of COO of a prominent NYC capitalist firm in NYC without the benefits of the technique.
Eliza, missing teaching, is excited to offer a limited class in NYC. Class spaced is extremely limited. Please inquire ASAP to get on the waitlist.
