Transforming teams through improvisational singing.
VOXUS quickly and playfully turns your corporate meeting, event or retreat into a powerful experience of collective song.
But, there’s a twist: the music is all made up on the spot. Using improvisational singing, your team will find their collective voice and together, make unbelievable music.
Unexpected, joyful and inspirational. We take your corporate event, corporate retreat or team building activity and up level it to a game-changing experience. Your team will walk away with a smile on their face and a clear understanding how each unique voice is necessary for the “music” your company makes.
If you want to inspire change, you’ve got to do something different.
We’ve worked with some amazing clients.
“Thought-provoking and liberating. That is VOXUS. We learned so much about each other, shared a lot of laughs, and had a whole lot of fun. Six months later, people are still talking about it.”
Britt Miller
Partner, Mayer Brown
The benefits are real.
Learning to listen
Stepping up to lead
Understanding the role of the individual amidst the collective
Moving beyond fear
Risk, mindfulness and vulnerability
The power of play
The important role of every voice
These are just a few of the themes that each VOXUS experience is sure to address. In addition, we craft the experience to get to the heart of your team, group or company’s needs.
There’s good science to back it up.
Singing positively impacts our brains.
From the endorphins contributing to feelings of joy and pleasure to the oxytocin alleviating stress and anxiety, study after study shows that using your voice alters your emotional and physical landscape for the better. Oh, and oxytocin? It is known to enhance feelings of trust and bonding.
But if you’re reading this and thinking, “My singing voice has hardly ever encouraged bonding…” Don’t worry! A 2015 study showed that when someone sings, regardless of skill, training or demographic, they experience “emotional, social and cognitive benefits.”
If you couple that with improvisation… POW! Currently being taught at top companies, organizations and MBA programs throughout the world, skills of improvisation have been proven to increase a team’s ability to be present, agile, and communicate freely.
What our clients say
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"Davin had a group of accounting professionals on their feet and making music together! It was amazing to see and be part of. We’ve never done anything like this at my company and it was well worth the risk of doing something really different."
Mary Davenport
Global Head of Operations & Governance
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"Davin does this in such a powerful way that he makes you understand the power of community.
Katherine Twells
SVP, West Region
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"This was a fantastic team building experience for our staff. It was inspiring and motivating on an especially gloomy winter day in Chicago. The staff loved singing together and it brightened everyone’s day and lifted our spirits."
JENNIFER DIXON, PRINCIPAL
PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
From 15 to 5,000 people, we know exactly what it takes to get your group making music… fast!
We walk in the room singing and improvising, quickly and playfully encouraging your team to join in. They’ll have created their own song before they can say “I can’t sing!”
Depending on the size of your group, we then move to simple exercises and/or an interactive keynote.
We always provide opportunities for individual voices to be heard and real time feedback to be given,
Here’s how we do it.
This is how we got a bunch of CMO’s singing together at a Coca-Cola summit.
A little about who we are.
Davin Youngs, Creator of VOXUS
Davin Youngs is a true musical innovator driven by his belief that singing, voice and sound are powerful tools for catalyzing change.
He is the creator of VOXUS, an experience that quickly and playfully brings corporate and professional groups into singing and improvised song. From Coca-Cola to Google to Chicago Public Schools, Davin is one today’s most sought after voices in leadership and professional development because of his innovative approach to helping individuals and groups find their voice and collective song. His interactive keynotes have been heard internationally, by audiences ranging from chief marketing officers to community organizers and Presbyterian clergy.
Locally, he hosts Chicago Circle Singing, a monthly community improvisational singing gathering for anyone and everyone who loves to sing.
A coach for more than 20 years, Davin works with some of today's most influential performers and leaders to find more freedom, authenticity and ease in their voice and subsequently their life. This one-of-a-kind approach is captured weekly in his highly rated podcast, Free Your Voice, Free Your Life.
Davin is also an active performer and the creator of The RESET, an immersive sound experience that he has brought to iconic spaces like Chicago’s famed Orchestra Hall, the roof of Ace hotel and Arcosanti in the Arizona desert. Additionally, he is a featured musician and teacher on the Insight Timer app where he offers guided meditations and recorded sound immersions.
Michele Thomas, Facilitator
One of today’s most sought after jazz vocalists, Michele Thomas has a voice like no other. From her original music to improvisation, to jazz standards, Michele brings passion and ease to the incredible music that she makes.
With an illustrious career teaching and coaching voice, Michele is fully committed to helping other’s find theirs.
“Art should be something that is life-affirming for the artist and help them reach their highest potential through expressing themselves freely,”
VOXUS perfectly marries Michele’s musical chops with her ability to guide others into a freer and happier experience with their voice.
