GlobalVoice™ Professional Communication
& Accent Training Program

Instructor Certification

 

Build specialized speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching services.

Gain the confidence to deliver them.

You don't have to be an accent expert to get started in this field. GlobalVoice gives you a clear, evidence-informed system for building your services, finding students, and growing your professional practice.

Using assessment frameworks, ready-to-use student materials and teaching tools, proven business systems, and the Student Enrollment Path™, you'll know what to teach, how to teach it, and how to guide students from the first consultation through the final session and beyond.

Designed for instructors who are new to speech and accent training, as well as professionals who want to expand their work into speech clarity, voice, and professional communication coaching.

The Accent Channel is an ASHA Approved Continuing Education Provider.  

Participants may earn up up to 1.5 ASHA CEUs in the GlobalVoice™ program..

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Accent Specialist Training:  1.0 ASHA CEUs (Subject code 7030:  Meets the DEI Continuing Education requirement.)

Business Bootcamp: 0.5 ASHA CEUs

Total ASHA CEUs available for both sections inside the program:  1.5 ASHA CEUs.

Getting Started Doesn't Have to Feel Overwhelming

Most instructors are excited about the possibility of offering speech, accent, voice, or communication coaching, but they aren't sure what they need to know or have in place before getting started.

Learn Today. Apply Tomorrow.

One of the things instructors appreciate most about GlobalVoice is how practical it is.

Rather than spending months learning theory before you're ready to use it, you'll build your skills by immediately applying what you learn to real teaching situations.

Every module is designed to help you learn the concepts, put them into practice, and begin using them with students as soon as possible.

Here's How We Will Get You There

 

Learn the Method

You'll know what to teach and how to teach it.

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Develop Your Services

You'll develop specialized services and know how to present them so students understand their value.

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Build Your Student Enrollment Path

You'll know how to find students and guide them from first inquiry to enrollment.

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Launch Together (Mentorship Track) 

You'll launch your services with guidance, accountability, and support.

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Expand Your Professional Opportunities (Speech Coach Collective Membership — available exclusively through the Mentorship Track; first year included)

You'll discover how far this work can take you.

What's Included

GlobalVoice is designed to help you successfully build specialized speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching services.

Each stage builds on the one before it, giving you the systems, tools, and support to confidently teach, launch your services, and continue growing as a communication coach.

1. Learn the Accent Channel Method™

Outcome: Develop the skills to assess, design, and create customized programs.

Gain the confidence that comes from following a structured, evidence-informed teaching system. You'll know what to teach, how to teach it, and have the tools to put it into practice.

Everything You Need to Deliver Exceptional Sessions

  • Teaching and assessment frameworks
  • Assessment, goal selection, and teaching progression
  • Program design, cueing, correction, and feedback
  • Language-Specific Assessment & Teaching Frameworks (approximately 15 languages)
  • Session planning frameworks
  • Time-ordered assessment and session breakdowns
  • Consultation and assessment scripts
  • Intake forms and policies

Instructor Resource Library

More than 400 ready-to-use resources, including:

  • Lesson plans and teaching activities
  • Student worksheets and homework materials
  • Session scripts and slide decks
  • Video tutorials and implementation guides
  • Teaching notes and instructional insights
  • Audio practice materials

Specialized Training

Learn how to work with a wide range of students and professional audiences, including:

  • International professionals
  • Actors and performers
  • Corporate executives and leadership teams
  • Call center professionals
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Educators and professors
  • Public speakers and presenters
  • Attorneys and legal professionals
  • Professionals preparing for interviews and career advancement
  • Entrepreneurs and business owners
  • Both native and multilingual English speakers

Included with Every Enrollment

  • Lifetime access to all core training
  • Future program updates
  • Certified Accent Specialist™ Certification
  • GlobalVoice™ Professional Communication Specialist Certification

2. Develop Your Services

Outcome: Develop specialized services for a wide range of communication goals.

You'll be prepared to offer:

  • Accent modification and pronunciation training
  • Speech clarity coaching
  • Professional communication coaching for native and multilingual English speakers
  • Asynchronous and hybrid communication coaching programs
  • Voice improvement
  • Interview and career communication
  • Public speaking and presentation skills
  • Accent and dialect acquisition for actors and performers
  • Corporate communication training
  • Group coaching programs
  • Online courses and workshops
  • Long-term communication programs

3. Build Your Student Enrollment Path

Outcome: Build a professional, ethical enrollment system that turns inquiries into committed clients.

You'll learn how to:

  • Clearly position and communicate your services so prospective students understand their value

  • Structure programs and pricing

  • Create professional offers and service packages

  • Develop lead magnets and educational content

  • Build a simple email marketing system

  • Conduct consultations and assessments

  • Ethically enroll new students

  • Follow up consistently to increase enrollments

  • Establish professional policies and workflows

All included in the Business Bootcamp™.

4. Launch Together (Mentorship Track)

Outcome: Launch your services with live guidance, accountability, and support from an experienced instructor and a community of professionals.

Includes:

  • Twice-monthly live mentoring sessions

  • Workshops, Q&A, and hot seats

  • Mock sessions

  • Practice session reviews

  • Teaching and business feedback

  • Current strategies and best practices

  • Accountability

  • Professional collaboration

  • Speech Coach Collective membership included during your first year of Mentorship 

5. Expand Your Professional Opportunities (Speech Coach Collective Professional Membership)

Outcome: Continue growing professionally while increasing your visibility and expanding your opportunities.

The Speech Coach Collective is an ongoing professional membership designed to support instructors as they continue building and growing their services.

Benefits include:

  • Continued live and on-demand professional development
  • Ongoing implementation support
  • Ongoing collaboration with a community of instructors
  • Instructor Network profile eligibility
  • Professional visibility opportunities
  • Referral opportunities*
  • Student Practice Portal access for up to 25 new students per month

*The Accent Channel Instructor Network regularly receives student referral requests. As requests arise, qualified instructors may be considered for referral opportunities based on factors such as specialty, availability, and active membership in the Speech Coach Collective. While referral opportunities are real, referrals are never guaranteed.

Speech Coach Collective membership is included throughout your first 12 months of Mentorship Track. After the first 12 months, continued Speech Coach Collective membership is optional and available through a separate monthly membership.

Membership in the Speech Coach Collective is exclusive to the Mentorship Track and is not available with Self-Paced enrollment.

Two Ways to Complete GlobalVoice™

Self-Paced and Mentorship Certification Tracks

GlobalVoice™ offers two ways to complete the program, depending on how much guidance, accountability, and live professional development you'd like as you build, launch, and grow your services.

Both tracks include the complete GlobalVoice™ training system, including:

  • The Accent Channel Method™

  • GlobalVoice™

  • Business Bootcamp™

  • Lifetime Instructor Resource Library

  • Two professional certifications

  • Lifetime access to future training updates

The difference isn't what you'll learn. It's how you'll implement it.

Self-Paced Track

The Self-Paced Track is designed for instructors who enjoy learning independently and want the flexibility to build their services at their own pace.

You'll receive the complete GlobalVoice™ training system, lifetime access to the Instructor Resource Library, two professional certifications, and all future training updates.

Mentorship Track

Everything included in the Self-Paced Track, plus live implementation, accountability, and ongoing professional development.

Mentorship is the next stage of the journey.

Through live group mentoring, implementation workshops, discussions, feedback, and current industry insights, you'll work alongside a community of instructors who are building, launching, and growing their own services.

Together, we'll work through real teaching, student enrollment, and service development decisions—helping you avoid common mistakes, save time, and turn what you've learned into real-world experience.

Mentorship also includes:

  • Twice-monthly live mentoring sessions
  • Implementation workshops
  • Live Q&A
  • Hot seats and mock sessions
  • Practice session reviews
  • Feedback on teaching and business decisions
  • Accountability and ongoing support
  • Current strategies and best practices
  • 12 months of Speech Coach Collective membership (included during your first year)

 

Which Track Is Right for You?

Choose the Self-Paced Track if you...

  • Enjoy learning independently.
  • Feel comfortable putting new ideas into practice on your own.
  • Prefer to create your own accountability.
  • Are ready to take ownership of your visibility and ongoing professional development.

Choose the Mentorship Track if you...

  • Want guidance as you launch your services.
  • Learn best through discussion, feedback, and implementation.
  • Value accountability and ongoing professional development.
  • Want access to the Speech Coach Collective, Instructor Network, Student Practice Portal, and live mentoring.

Important to Know

  • Both tracks include the complete GlobalVoice™ training system and lead to the same professional certifications.
  • The Mentorship Track includes 12 months of Speech Coach Collective membership, which provides access to live mentoring, the Instructor Network, additional professional development opportunities, and Student Practice Portal access for up to 25 new students per month, with each student receiving 6 months of access.
  • Continued Speech Coach Collective membership is optional after the first year through a separate monthly membership. 
  • Membership in the Speech Coach Collective is exclusive to the Mentorship Track and is not available with Self-Paced enrollment.
  Self-Paced Track Mentorship Track
Complete GlobalVoice™ Training System ✓ ✓
The Accent Channel Method™ ✓ ✓
Business Bootcamp™ ✓ ✓
Lifetime Instructor Resource Library âś“ âś“
Two Professional Certifications âś“ âś“
Lifetime Training Updates âś“ âś“
Student Practice Portal access Per-student fee âś“
Live group mentoring & implementation workshops — ✓
Teaching & business feedback — ✓
Practice session reviews — ✓
Accountability & live Q&A — ✓
Current strategies & professional development — ✓
Speech Coach Collective membership (12 months included) — ✓
Instructor Network eligibility — ✓
Professional visibility opportunities — ✓
Eligibility for referral opportunities — ✓

 

Self-Paced

$895.00 USD

or

4 Payments of $245

Total $980

Payment plan includes an $85 administrative fee.

Ideal for instructors who prefer to implement  & build their services independently

Includes:

  • Complete GlobalVoice™ training system
  • Two professional certifications
  • Lifetime access to the Instructor Resource Library
  • Business Bootcamp™
  • Lifetime training updates
  • Practice Partner community access
Start the Self-Paced Program

Mentorship Track

$3,800 USD

or

9 monthly payments of $445

Total $4,005

Payment plan includes a $205 administrative fee

Ideal for instructors who want ongoing guidance, professional development, and expert feedback as they build, launch, and grow their services.

Everything in Self-Paced, plus:

  • Live mentoring and implementation workshops

  • 12 months of Speech Coach Collective membership

  • Instructor Network eligibility

  • Student Practice Portal access for up to 25 new students per month during your first year

  • Practice session reviews

  • Ongoing feedback and professional collaboration

Mentorship enrollment is currently closed. The next cohort is planned for September 2026. Pricing is subject to change for future cohorts.

You can still enroll in the Self-Paced GlobalVoice™ Certification, which includes the full training and teaching frameworks.

Enrollment in Mentorship is intentionally limited to ensure meaningful interaction and personalized feedback.

Join the Waitlist for Mentorship

Start Where You're Comfortable

Both tracks lead to the same certifications and include the complete GlobalVoice™ teaching system. The difference is how much guidance you'd like as you build, launch, and grow your services.

You can start with the Self-Paced Track and apply your enrollment toward the Mentorship Track if you decide to upgrade later.

If you have already completed one of our certification programs, you are welcome to reach out to [email protected] for alumni upgrade options.

Group discounts are available for organizations or teams of 5 or more participants.  Click here to learn more about group enrollment options.

Know What to Teach—Even If You Don't Speak Your Student's Native Language

One of the biggest concerns new instructors have is:

"How can I teach someone if I don't speak their language?"

GlobalVoice includes a growing library of Language-Specific Assessment & Teaching Frameworks designed to help you confidently assess speech, identify high-impact targets, and create structured programs for a wide variety of language backgrounds.

Rather than guessing what to teach next, you'll have a clear framework that helps you:

  • Know what to listen for in real speech
  • Identify the speech patterns that matter most
  • Prioritize high-impact teaching targets
  • Build a logical teaching progression
  • Turn assessments into structured coaching programs

The program currently includes approximately 15 language-specific frameworks, with additional frameworks added as the program continues to grow.

Whether you're working with a Spanish-speaking executive, a Mandarin-speaking engineer, a Russian-speaking actor, or another multilingual professional, you'll have a practical system to guide your assessment, planning, and teaching decisions.

You'll never have to wonder, "What do I teach next?"

Lifetime Access to the Instructor Resource Library

Your Complete Teaching System

Every GlobalVoice™ instructor receives lifetime access to the Instructor Resource Library—a growing collection of ready-to-use teaching materials designed to save you time and simplify session planning.

This library is a core part of the GlobalVoice™ system for accent training and professional communication coaching, guiding you step-by-step through what to teach and how to teach it, so you can deliver effective, professional coaching programs.

Rather than creating materials from scratch, you'll have a comprehensive library of resources to support every stage of the teaching process.

Throughout the library, you'll find recommended follow-up lessons and related resources, making it easy to reinforce skills, plan your next session, and build connected, well-structured programs without having to create everything from scratch.

The library includes:

  • 400+ downloadable PDFs and audio lessons
  • Activities, scripts, and student homework materials
  • Session planning guides and teaching frameworks
  • Assessment and program planning resources
  • Video tutorials with implementation guidance
  • Teaching notes and instructional insights
  • Structured program progression outlines
  • Slide decks and scripts
  • Comprehensive training for every sound of English + rhythm, stress, intonation, connection and more
  • Voice improvement resources
  • Professional speaking and communication skills modules
  • Workplace and corporate communication topics
  • Common student challenges with practical solutions
  • Hours of guided video exercises

It doesn't matter if you're planning your first session or your fiftieth! You'll always have ready-to-use lessons, activities, and teaching resources to keep your sessions engaging, organized, and focused on real progress.

During sessions, you can share your screen, review materials together, and assign targeted homework without creating custom assignments.

Resources can be downloaded and shared digitally, printed for in-person sessions, or worked through together in real time when teaching online. Downloadable materials are yours to save, print, and share with your students.

Whether you teach online or in person, you'll always have practical resources ready to use with your students, saving preparation time while helping you deliver consistent, high-quality instruction.

New materials are added as the program evolves. As the library continues to refine and expand, your access remains active.

Student Practice Portal

A Client-Facing Practice System

The Student Practice Portal is the companion practice system to the Instructor Library. It's designed to reinforce what students have learned, so they can practice independently between instructor touchpoints.

The Portal makes it easy to assign meaningful, targeted practice, create a polished client experience, and even develop more flexible or asynchronous services that require fewer live coaching hours.

GlobalVoice Self-Paced: After certification, Student Practice Portal access is available for purchase on a per-student basis. This gives you the flexibility to add Portal access when it makes sense for a specific student or service.

Mentorship Track: Your first year includes Speech Coach Collective membership, giving you Student Practice Portal access from day one for up to 25 new students per month. Each student receives 6 months of access.

Speech Coach Collective: Active members receive Student Practice Portal access for up to 25 new students per month as part of their membership. Each student receives 6 months of access.

After your first Mentorship year, continued Speech Coach Collective membership is optional through a separate membership.

Learn from a Professional Who's Done the Work

GlobalVoice™ was developed by Jessica Kijowski, MS, CCC-SLP, founder of The Accent Channel and an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist with more than 26 years of specialized experience in accent modification, speech improvement, voice, and professional communication.

Before launching her own private practice, Jessica trained alongside some of New York City's leading speech and voice professionals, working with actors, executives, educators, international professionals, and other high-level communicators.

Every framework, teaching system, student-facing resource, and business strategy inside GlobalVoice has been developed, tested, and refined through decades of real client work—not theory alone.

Today, more than 350 instructors in over 15 countries have used the GlobalVoice system to launch and grow specialized speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching services of their own.

Self-Paced

$895.00 USD

or

4 Payments of $245

Total $980

Payment plan includes an $85 administrative fee.

Start the Self-Paced Program

Mentorship Track

$3,800 USD

or

9 monthly payments of $445

Total $4,005

Payment plan includes a $205 administrative fee

Mentorship enrollment is currently closed. Pricing is subject to change for future cohorts.

Join the Waitlist for Mentorship

You can start with the Self-Paced Track and upgrade later if you'd like additional guidance, feedback, and professional development.

Why Professionals Seek Accent & Communication Coaching

As careers grow, communication demands often grow too.

Many professionals may seek support to communicate more clearly, speak with greater confidence, prepare for new opportunities, or strengthen their overall communication skills.

For some, that means accent modification. For others, it may include voice improvement, presentation skills, executive communication, or preparing for new professional opportunities.

They may be looking to:

  • Improve speech clarity and pronunciation
  • Speak more confidently in meetings and presentations
  • Strengthen executive presence
  • Prepare for interviews or leadership roles
  • Communicate more effectively with colleagues, clients, or audiences

GlobalVoice prepares you to help students across this full range of communication goals, giving you the skills to expand your services as your own experience grows.

Build Professional Services—Not Tutoring Sessions

One of the biggest mindset shifts in GlobalVoice is seeing speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching as specialized professional services rather than tutoring.

When these services are built around structured programs, clear outcomes, and an exceptional client experience, they can be positioned and priced very differently from traditional tutoring or isolated sessions.

Throughout GlobalVoice, you'll learn how experienced professionals:

  • Design structured coaching programs

  • Conduct consultations

  • Communicate the value of their services

  • Guide students from the first consultation through the final session and beyond

  • Build long-term professional relationships

The goal isn't simply to charge more. It's to deliver specialized services that create meaningful results and are priced and positioned accordingly.

What Professional Services Can Look Like

Every instructor's journey is different, and pricing varies based on experience, specialty, location, and the clients you serve.

Many instructors begin in the $100–$150 per session range when offering structured coaching programs with clearly defined goals. As experience grows, some professionals, particularly those working with executives, corporate clients, and highly specialized audiences, may charge $200–$250+ per session or package their services into premium multi-session programs.

Beyond Hourly Coaching

Your services also don't have to be tied entirely to the number of live coaching hours you can fit into your schedule.

GlobalVoice teaches you how to use structured learning materials, independent practice, and personalized feedback to create flexible service models, including asynchronous and hybrid coaching programs that require fewer live sessions.

For SLPs, teachers, and other professionals who are accustomed to being paid directly for each hour they work, this can open the door to a very different way of structuring your services.

You can still provide individualized professional guidance while allowing some of the learning and practice to happen independently.

These examples are provided for illustration only. Results vary based on experience, implementation, market conditions, pricing, and individual circumstances.

Accent Specialist Training: 1.0 ASHA CEUs.

Business Bootcamp: 0.5 ASHA CEUs. 

Total ASHA CEUs available for both sections is 1.5 ASHA CEUs.

Note that 0.1 ASHA CEU = 1 contact hour.

ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.

To receive a  Certificate of Training or earn ASHA CEUs, you will need to:
  • Watch all required video lessons
  • Pass an online, multiple choice quiz with 80% accuracy.  You are permitted to retake the quiz until you have achieved a passing score.
  • Complete and submit the online course evaluation. 
  • Complete and submit the online ASHA CEU or CE hour request form

We will then verify your coursework.  If you have not met all completion requirements, we will notify you by email.  
Partial credit is not available for this course.

Learning Outcomes

After Completing This Course Participants Will Be Able To

  • Explain the importance of cultural sensitivity when teaching accents
  • Identify the 11 most common goals of speech training programs for non-native speakers
  • Describe the 3 main purposes of a Speech Assessment
  • Summarize differences between formal and conversational assessments
  • Complete the 5 steps of a Speech Assessment
  • Present goals and assessment findings to students
  • Set goals and create lesson plans based on assessment findings
  • Determine the most effective order of goals for personalized speech improvement plans
  • Instruct students to pronounce vowels and consonants using General American pronunciation
  • Demonstrate American rhythm and intonation patterns
  • Design training for vocabulary, idioms, grammar, conversational skills, presentation skills, and voice improvement in response to specific student goals and needs
  • Apply practice and training techniques to help students use American sounds and features in conversational speech
  • Implement training exercises and provide effective feedback for students
  • Develop appropriate speech training activities for 1-to-1 sessions
  • Develop homework strategies for students
  • Analyze goals based on student's native language
  • Integrate training techniques based on individual needs of each student
  • Apply basic marketing strategies to find new students

Course content has been reviewed for quality, currency, and effectiveness in assisting learners achieve learning outcomes in compliance with Required Practice 9.13.

Is GlobalVoice™ Right for You?

GlobalVoice™ is designed for professionals who want a structured, practical pathway into speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching.

Whether you're building on your current experience or developing a new specialty, you'll learn how to deliver professional services using a clear, proven system.

This program is a great fit if you are...

✔️ A Speech-Language Pathologist looking to expand into accent modification and communication coaching for international professionals, executives, and other communication-focused clients.

✔️ An ESL or language instructor ready to move beyond general language teaching and specialize in pronunciation, speech clarity, and professional communication.

✔️ A voice coach, acting coach, or performance professional who wants to expand into speech, accent, and communication coaching.

✔️ A corporate trainer, educator, or communication professional who wants to offer structured communication coaching services.

✔️ Someone exploring a new professional direction and looking for a clear, step-by-step system without having to figure everything out alone.

You don't need to be an expert in every accent before you begin.

You need a structured system, practical training, and a willingness to put what you learn into practice.

More than 350 instructors in over 15 countries have used the GlobalVoice™ system to launch and grow specialized speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching services.

If you're ready to build real expertise and help others communicate more effectively, you're in the right place.

This Program May Not Be the Right Fit If...

✖️ You're looking for theory, research, and statistics instead of a practical system you can immediately put into practice.

✖️ You're looking for a program focused primarily on documentation and clinical data collection instead of practical frameworks for assessing, teaching, and running a communication coaching practice.

✖️ You believe there's only one "correct" way to speak English, rather than recognizing that communication goals are personal and should be guided by each student's needs, preferences, and professional goals.

Ethical, Confidence-Centered Coaching

Helping someone communicate more clearly should never mean changing who they are.

Throughout GlobalVoice, you'll learn an ethical, confidence-centered approach that helps clients communicate with greater clarity while respecting their identity, experiences, and personal communication goals.

 

You'll learn how to:

  • Support growth without overcorrecting
  • Build confidence alongside communication skills
  • Help clients sound more like themselves—not someone else
  • Create a positive, encouraging coaching experience

Communication coaching isn't about eliminating an accent.

It's about helping people communicate more effectively, participate in life more fully, and express themselves with greater ease.

That philosophy is woven into every assessment, lesson, feedback conversation, and coaching decision throughout the program.

Course Description:

Learn to assess, set goals, create lesson plans, structure sessions, develop homework activities, and design training programs using proven techniques. 

Troubleshoot common speech challenges for ESL or EAL (English as a second or alternative language) speakers based on their native language/region.  You'll also learn to teach regional dialects of American English and how to work with specific populations like actors and corporate clients.

Essential Materials:  Intake forms, outlines for assessments, blank evaluation forms, downloadable practice sheets, audio lessons to share with your students, and Google slide presentations to guide you through assessments and sessions so you'll sound like an expert even if you've never worked with a student before.

Teaching scripts: Learn exactly what to say and how to explain sounds and features of American English.  Our ready made curriculum will ensure that you know exactly what to say to get your students excited about working with you and motivated to schedule more sessions. 

Program Overview

Format: Video lessons, related downloadable PDF's, instructor chat section, private Facebook group, and live group Zoom calls

On-Demand Learning:  Once you enroll, you'll get immediate access to all lessons and all materials.

Total Instruction Time:  609.17 minutes = 10.15 hours = 1.0 ASHA CEUs

  

Module 1: Becoming an Accent Expert

Lesson 1: Qualities of a Successful Accent Instructor:  5:29

  • Identify the top qualities to develop for ultimate accent coaching success
  • Examine expectations of teaching accents and dialects
  • Recognize the need to embrace your role as a marketer and understand how it will make you a better teacher
  • Plan to explain your services to potential students in a way that makes them more likely to enroll in your programs

Lesson 2: The Ultimate Goal of Accent Training:  6:05

  • Formulate realistic goals for accent training students
  • Identify skills, topics, and goals to work on in a typical session not related to pronunciation or accent

Lesson 3: Deciding What to Call Yourself and Your Services:  11:29

  • Decide what to call yourself and your services (and why this is so important)
  • Choose a culturally sensitive approach to talking about our services
  • Question if it is right or wrong to change an accent
  • Plan strategies for being culturally sensitive when teaching and marketing accent training

Lesson 5: The Basics of Accent Training:  11:53

  • Examine pronunciation as the foundation of Speech Improvement
  • Learn to effectively cue and correct your students
  • Prepare your answers to some of the most common questions you'll get from new students
  • Steps to modify habitual speech patterns and how to apply them to your teaching
  • Recognize the concept of current accent vs. goal accent
  • Accent Reduction, Accent Modification, Accent Training, Learning The American Accent: What’s the difference and why does it matter? (and how to decide what’s best for marketing your services)

Lesson 6: The General American Accent:  7:54

  • Recognize key features of the General American Accent (GenAm)
  • Learn why GenAm is usually (but not always) the goal accent
  • How to choose the best goal accent for your students
  • Estimate how long it will take most students to meet GenAm goals

Lesson 7: My 12-Week Lesson plan:  4:43

  • A brief overview of the most common goals for non-native speakers. You’ll go more in-depth with these goals in another section of the program
  • Get a copy of my 12-Week Lesson Plan for ESL or EAL (English as a Second or Alternative Language) speakers

Lesson 8: The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): What you Really Need to Know:  10:47

  • Compare sounds and letters: They are NOT the same thing
  • Sounds and symbols of the General American Accent: What I do and why I do it
  • What your students need to know about sounds and IPA symbols and how to explain the difference to them

 

Module 2: How To Do A Speech Assessment

Lesson 1: Speech Assessment Overview:  19:38

  • Learn proven strategies for a successful assessment
  • Identify the goals of the Speech Assessment
  • Describe exactly what happens during an assessment
  • Create session policies for your business
  • Decide on your answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that students will ask during an assessment

Lesson 2: Formal vs Conversational:  6:29

  • Compare the differences between formal and conversational assessments
  • Evaluate the pros and cons of a formal assessment
  • Evaluate the pros and cons of a conversational assessment

Lesson 3: How to do an assessment:  46:43

  • Step-by-step walk though of exactly what happens in a speech assessment and how long each section will take
  • Prepare to confidently offer your own Speech and Accent Assessments:  (Materials and forms included)
  • Get the exact questions to ask during a Speech/Accent Assessment and why you should ask them so you can plan for your own sessions
  • A full script, outline, and Google slide presentation to follow so you will sound like an expert even if you've never done an assessment before
  • Understand the biggest mistakes most teachers make during assessments and how to avoid them 
  • Prepare exactly what you're going to say when presenting goals to your student
  • What to do if you don’t hear any sounds/concepts to present as goals
  • Learn to seamlessly integrate the sales pitch into your assessment so you feel like you are educating, not selling

Lesson 4: Assessing areas other than pronunciation:  4:47

  • Understand why areas other than pronunciation are important
  • Identify specific areas to assess
  • Practice presenting findings to your students

Lesson 5: Case Study:  13:54

Listen in on a real session as I present the findings of an Accent Assessment to a native speaker of Polish. 

Lesson 6: Tips for Making the Assessment Easier:  13:20

  • Download a Google slide deck to guide you  through the assessment process
  • Tips to make your assessments more accurate and engaging to increase conversions
  • Learn how I "cover my tracks" during a live session when I haven't done a great assessment
  • Build confidence in your speech assessment skills

Lesson 7: What to do if they Don’t Schedule:  7:20

  • List of reasons a student may not have scheduled
  • Plan your follow up with these students to encourage enrollment in the future

 

Module 3:  Accent Training Lesson Plan Design and Curriculum

Lesson 1: Lesson Plan Design  9:10

  • Designing your lesson plan
  • How to decide which sound to work on first
  • Planning the most effective order for your lesson plan goals

Lesson 2: The 11 Essential Goals:  52:58

  • Answer the questions:
    • What is an accent?
    • How do accents develop?
    • How do you change an accent?
    • What is the General American Accent and why is it usually the goal for accent training?
  • Download The 11 Essential Goals of the American Accent Lesson Plan
    • Common substitutions made by ESL or EAL speakers
    • How to pronounce each sound with the General American Accent
    • Example words and phrases to practice for each sound/goal

Lesson 3: Why I Work on TH first and Why I Never Start with R:  10:50 

  • Why /TH/ should be the first sound that you work on
  • Why starting with /TH/ is good for your students
  • Why starting with /TH/ helps you as a teacher
  • Why choosing /R/ as your first goal is a bad idea

 

Module 4: Implementing your Programs

Lesson 1: How to Structure Sessions and Programs:  39:57

In this lesson, I'll walk you through a time-ordered breakdown of a typical 50-minute session.  You'll learn about:

  • Setting goals for Accent Training
  • The structure of a 12-Week Accent training program and beyond
  • Assessing and managing student expectations as far as progress and improvement
  • How much time to spend on each goal/activity in each session
  • Developing session activities and homework assignments to make your sessions engaging and effective
  • The Dos and Don’ts of Accent Training

 Lesson 2: A breakdown of my typical first session:  5:57

  • Detailed walkthrough of the first session 
  • Schedule breakdown and specific activities and worksheets that I use in a typical first session (where I am not doing an assessment)
  • Recognize the many reasons that you shouldn't work on the most challenging goal/concept in your first session

Lesson 3: Working on Goals Other Than Pronunciation:  19:45

Strategies and activities to address speech improvement goals not related to accent or pronunciation including:

  • Common Words
  • Vocabulary
  • Idioms
  • Grammar
  • Public Speaking/Presentation Skills
  • Rate of Speech
  • Vocal Quality

Lesson 4: Cueing, Correction, and Feedback:  26:56

  • Develop correction techniques that foster permanent speech improvement
  • Implement language that will engage your students and improve client retention
  • Learn to assess your correction skills to be a better teacher for your students

Lesson 5: Where to find materials for your sessions:  0:57

  • Get access to an ever-growing list of recommendations for products, software, and materials to use in your sessions

Lesson 6:  Session Activities:  Text Only

  • To help you keep your lessons, sessions, and programs appropriate for our amazing students, this lesson offers an ever-growing list of activities that I often use in my sessions.

Lesson 7: How to Structure Homework:  14:27

  • Benefits of offering Maintenance Sessions
  • Setting a homework practice schedule
  • Strategies to keep your students accountable for practice
  • Specific homework ideas for
    • Listening Practice
    • Reading Practice
    • Self-Evaluation Practice
    • Conversational Practice

Lesson 8: Tracking Progress:  6:40

  • Create a system to measure progress and assess student improvement
  • Learn to provide data to document accent training speech improvement

 

Module 5: Working with Specific Populations

Lesson 1: Working With Actors:  10:34

  • Considerations when choosing the appropriate dialect for a role
  • My process for working on scripts with actors
  • Things to avoid when teaching accents/dialects to actors
  • Tips to ensure consistency of dialects throughout a performance

Lesson 2: Managing Expectations with Actors:  9:31

  • Can actors learn a “perfect American accent"?
  • Goal setting for actors
  • Compare working with a script vs. conversational speech
  • Key considerations for performing with an accent or dialect

Lesson 3: Working with Corporate Clients:  21:07

  • Create and structure corporate speech improvement programs
  • Preparing materials for corporate clients
  • Goal setting for corporate clients
  • My Top 5 Speech Goals for both native and ESL or EAL speaking corporate clients
  • Detailed breakdown of a typical session for private or group corporate speech training

Lesson 4: Marketing to Corporate Clients:  28:47

  • Where to find corporate clients
  • How to create a proposal for your services
  • Prepare the documentation required to market to businesses and corporations
  • Set up policies and procedures for corporate work
  • Actionable next steps for finding corporate clients
  • How much to charge for corporate work
  • How to collect payment from corporate clients
  • Tax forms you'll need to know 

Lesson 5: Long-Term Students:  13:08

  • Setting goals for long-term students
  • Planning specific activities and exercises to use with these students
  • Why reviewing concepts is still progress and how to explain that to your students
  • How to price maintenance sessions and extended programs
  • Ideas other than private sessions for long-term students
  • Understand why working with students beyond a 12-week program is beneficial for you AND for them

Lesson 6: General American Southern Workshop:  78:32

  • Define dialects and describe how they develop
  • Compare different types of American Southern dialects
  • Recognize the large amount of variety within any accent or dialect
  • Learn about a few of the many different Southern dialects, then identify the major features that most people recognize as hallmarks
  • Analyze rhythm, sounds, and additional features of the General American Southern Dialect
  • Set up your plan to teach Southern dialects or the General American accent to American Southern speakers
  • How to use this dialect to help ESL or EAL speakers 

Lesson 7:  New York City (NYC) Dialects Workshop:  84:47

  • Compare different types of NYC dialects
  • Recognize the large amount of variety within any accent or dialect
  • Learn about a few of the many different NYC dialects, then identify the major features that most people recognize as hallmarks
  • Analyze rhythm, sounds, and additional features of NYC Dialects
  • Set up your plan to teach NYC dialects or the General American accent to NYC speakers
  • Considerations for teaching NYC dialects to ESL or EAL speakers 

 

Module 6: Next Steps

Lesson 1: Finding Your First Students:  12:43

  • Discover the average time it takes for most students to enroll after discovering you for the first time
  • Marketing basics every teacher should know
  • Implement proven marketing strategies for finding students
  • 8 actionable steps you can take today to find your first students

Lesson 2:  Teaching Tools, Tech Stuff, Software, Video Creation Equipment and More:  Text Only

  • Quality resources for your accent and pronunciation training toolkit
  • My top picks of products and services that have positively impacted my business. 
  • List is updated regularly so you'll be up to date on the latest tech essentials

Total Course Instruction Time:  609.17 minutes = 10.15 hours = 1.0 ASHA CEUs

You'll also get access to...
Lesson Plans For Specific Languages

You'll get detailed lesson plans for specific native languages and several regional dialects of English including:

  • Arabic 
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Hebrew
  • Korean
  • Languages of India
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese

Dialect Workshops

Learn to work with actors and teach specific regional dialects.  The program includes our General American Southern and Dialects of New York City intensive workshops.   

Although you don't need to know how to teach dialects, it does make you a better teacher and teaching dialects to actors is a really great niche market.  In the program, you'll learn how to do it!

Example Sessions

Listen to recordings of real sessions with real students so you learn how to run a session and feel confident that you are doing it the right way.

Tech and Equipment Resources

Save time and effort by using the recommendations for software, materials, equipment, and other essentials to run your business and provide services.  

Eligible for a Free Listing in our Teacher Directory

Although referrals are never guaranteed, I send students from my waitlist, my email list, my YouTube channel, and my social media platforms to our Online Teacher Directory to help you find students and educate them about your services.  You'll be eligible to apply for the directory after you've completed the program.

Immediate Access to all modules and lessons 24/7

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Presenter and Disclosures

Presenter:

Jessica Kijowski, MS, CCC-SLP is an ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist who has spent the last 2 years teaching accents and dialects to award-winning actors, models, voice over artists, corporate executives, lawyers, teachers, diplomats, and professional voice users from all over the world.

After earning a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 2000 and completing an internship focused the vocal rehabilitation of actors and singers, Jessica began her career as an Accent and Dialect Specialist at New York Speech Improvement Services and The Sam Chwat Speech Center before opening her own private practice in 2013.  She  created The Accent Channel in 2015 to offer online speech improvement courses, workshops, and teacher training programs. Jessica has also been an Adjunct Professor of Voice and Diction at New York University.

Presenter Disclosures:

Financial – Jessica Kijowski is creator and owner of The Accent Channel and receives a salary.

Financial – Jessica Kijowski recommends optional products and services in this program and may receive affiliate fees through the  Amazon Associates program and the Kajabi Affiliate program if you purchase these products and services using our links.

Non-Financial – Jessica Kijowski has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.

Content Disclosure:

The content of this online course will focus on learning The Accent Channel Method of Speech Improvement.  Other methods of training will be discussed, but not taught.

All materials used for this method are included via download with this program.

Access to download these materials will be available for 1 year after enrollment date.  After one year, access will expire and participant will have the option to continue access for a fee.

Intended Audience:

SLPs, ESL Teachers, and other speech and language professionals.

Meet Your Instructor: Jessica Kijowski, MS, CCC-SLP

I'm an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist with more than 26 years of experience specializing in accent modification, speech improvement, voice, and professional communication coaching.

Aside from a brief period early in my career working in early intervention, I've spent most of my career working exclusively with adults, building one of the longest-running private practices in this specialty area.

Over the years, I've had the privilege of working with a wide range of speakers, including A-list actors, models, voice-over artists, executives, lawyers, teachers, diplomats, media professionals, and other high-level professional voice users from around the world.

Before launching my own practice in 2014, I trained alongside some of New York City's leading speech and voice professionals, providing specialized speech and voice services to performers, professionals, and global speakers.

Everything inside GlobalVoice™ is based on systems I've developed, tested, and refined through decades of real client work—from assessment and teaching frameworks to business systems and professional service delivery.

In 2019, I created the GlobalVoice™ certification program to help other professionals confidently build specialized speech, accent, voice, and communication coaching services using the same practical systems I've relied on throughout my own career.

Today, more than 350 instructors in over 15 countries have used these frameworks to launch and grow their own services.

If you have questions about the program, I'd love to help. Feel free to reach out at [email protected].

Ready to Get Started?

If you’re ready to use your skills in a more structured, professional way—and offer services that reflect the value of your expertise—you can get started with GlobalVoice™ today.

Whether you choose the Self-Paced Track or decide to join Mentorship when enrollment opens, you’ll be learning a proven system designed for real client work.

Self-Paced

$895.00 USD

or

4 Payments of $245

Total  $980

Payment plan includes an $85 administrative fee.

Start the Self-Paced Program

Mentorship Track

$3,800 USD

or

9 monthly payments of $445

Total $4,005

Payment plan includes a $205 administrative fee

Mentorship enrollment is currently closed. Pricing is subject to change for future cohorts.

Join the Waitlist for Mentorship

You can start with the Self-Paced Track and upgrade later if you decide you want mentorship and live support.

We all know that results don’t look the same for everyone.

Please note: The income examples, student stories, and pricing recommendations shared here are for illustration and educational purposes only. Every instructor’s path is unique, and results depend on many factors, including your experience, effort, and market conditions. While many of our graduates go on to charge premium rates and build successful practices, The Accent Channel cannot guarantee specific financial outcomes. What we can promise is to provide the tools, training, and support you need to take confident steps forward.