About Us

Speech Advantage, LLC is dedicated to helping individuals improve their communication skills in the workplace as well as in their personal lives.  People communicate in thousands of ways each day.  We strive to make your communication as effective and efficient as possible.

Speech Advantage’s founder and president is Barbara Christensen.  Ms. Christensen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Speech Communication from Iowa State University as well as a Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology from Northeast Missouri State University (currently Truman State University.)  She worked as a speech-language pathologist in the schools, medical settings, and private practice until she started her corporate work in 1999 in Des Moines, IA. 

Today, Ms. Christensen’s specialty area is accent modification and is based out of Madison, WI.  She has authored numerous published articles as well as spoken at state and national conventions about accent modification techniques and corporate speech practices.  She is a former national trainer for the Institute of Language and Phonology - Training Division, where she traveled the U.S. to teach accent modification workshops to other speech professionals who wanted to offer this specialty area as part of their individual businesses.  Ms. Christensen served on the Executive Board of the Corporate Speech Pathology Network (Corspan), an international corporate speech organization, for five years during which time she served in the offices of president and secretary.  Other organizations in which she is involved include Society of Human Resource Management and International Professionals Association.