“Jan is a brilliant coach. Her inner mastery coaching work with Lions Gate Chorus was the missing ingredient we needed. These inner mastery coaching principles will change you and your chorus culture (or any team you might work with) forever.”
Since 2007, Jan Carley, Inner Coach of Barbershop, has transformed the experiences of thousands of a cappella singers, chorus directors and leaders worldwide. Jan’s Inner Mastery Coaching programs open up powerful possibilities for groups and individuals and help create a joyous, high-functioning group culture and positive performance impact. Exploring the benefits of mental mastery (the “Being” of Barbershop) while working toward musical and visual mastery creates a true “triple threat” performance experience for barbershoppers.
Jan works with directors, choruses, leadership teams, boards, regional faculty, quartets and individuals to open up powerful possibilities, maximize potential and catalyze significant and immediate positive change.
Contact Jan to see how you can:
- Supercharge your impact as a chorus director and leader
- Unify and maximize team leadership potential
- Grow a connected chorus culture of positivity and possibility
- Exponentially add joy to your (and your group’s) singing experience
- Create transformative personal change both on and off stage
- Have a more inspired, confident and passionate Barbershop experience
Jan’s first big success as the Inner Coach of Barbershop was in 2007 with the Lions Gate Chorus, a 100-voiced Sweet Adeline International chorus based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Ranked 12th in the world, they (and their master director Sandy Marron) embarked on a holistic inner mastery coaching program before the International chorus competition. By working with Jan on the “being” of barbershop, not just the “doing”, over a period of several months, they transformed their thinking, self-belief and confidence levels. The chorus’ high-octane grounded energy created an unforgettable onstage performance that had audience and judges alike screaming with approval, and vaulted them up in the rankings to emerge as the new 3rd place International Bronze Medalists.
Since that time, Jan has expanded the breadth of her Inner Mastery coaching programs and has successfully coached dozens of choruses of different sizes and levels, run powerful musical and management leadership retreats and memorable Regional workshops worldwide. She has transformed dozens of directors with individual one-on-one coaching through her innovative “Coach on Call” program and enrolled thousands of singers in personal programs of individual mastery.
A long time barbershop singer (chorus and quartet) herself, she first captured her experiential work with barbershoppers in her popular book, Harmony from the Inside Out, which takes her inner coaching principles and expands them for easy application to one’s personal and professional lives. A revised and updated 10th Anniversary edition is available for ordering in all formats at online bookstores worldwide. Her new book, The Overtone Effect, creates a step-by-step system for personal, leadership and organizational change and has been embraced by individuals and organizations who want to create sustainable generative culture shifts.