Influencing Without Authority Using Emotional Intelligence

Denise is a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music Drama Program. She has enjoyed a highly varied career as a corporate spokesperson and actress. As a corporate trainer for IWA Strategies and facilitator through Xavier Leadership Center some of her clients include: Children’s Hospital, UC Law School, Fifth/Third Bank, General Motors, GTE, Iams, Kroger, Lexmark, Boeing Aircraft, Eli Lilly & Co., Macy’s Stores, American Financial Group, Cincinnati Bell, Procter & Gamble, Barefoot Proximity and Wild Flavors. Denise holds Executive Board positions with The Cincinnati Labor Council AFL-CIO, and the Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau and past National Board Member for The Screen Actors Guild – SAG-AFTRA. You can see her in featured roles on Army Wives, 21 Jumpstreet, Northern Exposure, Days of Our Lives, Body Language, and most recently the films, We’re Doing Fine, The Next Three Days with Russell Crowe, My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Homecoming, Madison, Uninvited Guest, Artworks, and Dead Horse.

Rocco is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, a faculty member of Xavier University’s Leadership Center and consultant to Proctor and Gamble’s clay street project. There is a chapter discussing his work in Voice and Speech Training for the New Millennium, and he has been accorded the title Member of Distinction, the highest honor given by the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. His book Voice: Onstage and Off, co-authored with Robert Barton, has been nominated as the Best New Theatre Publication by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and is in use by over 600 College and University theatre programs. His latest book (co-authored with Joe Deer) is Acting in Musical Theatre: a comprehensive course. Together they write a monthly article series on acting in Musical Theatre for Dramatics Magazine.

He is one of a handful of certified master trainers in the Alba Method for Emotions and his research interest is in the voice and emotional extremes. Rocco is also the founding editor of the journal Voice and Speech Review for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and has edited the first three books in that series: Standard Speech and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training, The Voice in Violence…, and Film, Broadcast and e-Media Coaching….

ANNIE FITZPATRICK is a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music Drama Program. She has also taught interpersonal communication skills at UC’s College of Law and UC’s College of Medicine. She is a facilitator at The Xavier Leadership Center. As a professional actress she has been a spokesperson and corporate trainer for companies that include Procter & Gamble, Lenscrafters, Krogers, Cintas, Ipsos, Barefoot Proximity, Hewlett Packard, Parker Brothers, RCA, JB Speakers, and Motorola. She has coached professional actors for over 25 years and created a Conservatory program for The Tri-State American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. She has appeared Off-Broadway, toured nationally and internationally, and works in regional theatres across the country. She has appeared in numerous national and local commercials. TV and film credits include Those Who Kill, Army Wives, Fun Size, Milk Money, Loving, and Broken Hearts. As a company member of The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, she has received two Best Actress Cincinnati Entertainment Awards and multiple Acclaim Awards, including one for Best Supporting Actress.