PEP For FitPros is a three-week, self-paced course with a weekly, live 1-hour Q&A session for cohort members to ask questions and connect with the cohort. Each Monday, three videos, created with group fitness professionals in mind, are released to be enjoyed on one’s own schedule. Supplemental materials will also be posted weekly in each module.
The weekly Preserve & Protect videos will provide background knowledge of vocal anatomy and physiology and best practice methods to use and care for the voice, leveraging findings from peer-reviewed studies and drawing from Ashley’s experience as a speech-language pathologist. The weekly Enhance videos offer tools to enhance each unique voice, as a coach and enterTRAINer, by teaching vocal acting techniques to execute classes like a brilliant performer.
The third weekly video briefly recaps and assigns a Concept Exploration for the week to practice what is learned in the course immediately in the instructor’s next group fitness class. All PEP For FitPros videos break down information simply and provide actionable tools to immediately be a stronger and better vocal athlete than you ever thought possible.
We can't wait to begin this journey with you.
Meet the PEP Team
Global boutique fitness program designer and former performer Noël Nocciolo has teamed up with speech-language pathologist and former performer Ashley FitzSimmons-Olsen, M.S., CCC-SLP to create PEP For FitPros, a continuing education workshop with the mission of providing knowledge and tools to group fitness instructors who want to preserve, enhance and protect their unique voice as a fitness professional.
Meet Noël
Noël Nocciolo is a boutique fitness consultant, indoor cycling instructor, and co-founder of PEP For FitPros. Noël has led instructor training and business leadership events with group fitness professionals and boutique studio owners in 16 countries and counting, across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia, both as a consultant and through her thought leadership platform, Boutique Fitness Talks.
Noël’s work with PEP for FitPros pulls from her undergraduate degree from Fordham University in theater performance, many hours in vocal music lessons, and 15 years in New York City before traveling the world working with group fitness professionals and consulting boutique studio owners.
Meet Ashley
Ashley is a licensed, certified speech-language pathologist and co-founder of PEP For FitPros. She is passionate about helping professional voice users maintain their vocal health and strengthen their vocal delivery techniques to effectively engage a variety of audiences.
Prior to earning a master’s degree in speech-language pathology, Ashley earned a bachelor’s degree in acting and worked professionally as an actor, singer, dancer, and theater and dance instructor. This knowledge and experience gives Ashley a unique perspective when coaching and educating professional voice users, allowing her to connect acting and singing techniques with the science of vocal production. Ashley has worked in a variety of settings as a speech-language pathologist treating communication disorders across the lifespan.
We look forward to sharing testimonials from FitPros who have taken our course, and we welcome your feedback.
- Noël and Ashley
