Business English Lessons

Or: the gap between knowing the words and being heard

I work with professionals whose English is already good, and who still find themselves losing the room in a meeting, or watering down an email until it says less than they meant. That’s usually not a vocabulary problem. It’s the gap between competence and communication, two different skills that get treated as one in most generic English courses.

What this actually covers

Meetings, presentations, negotiations, interviews, the emails that need to land the first time because there’s no second chance. I’ve worked with managers, entrepreneurs, people between jobs prepping for a specific interview, and people whose international colleagues assume they’re less capable than they are, purely because their English doesn’t move at the speed their thinking does.

Why this works differently from a general course

A syllabus doesn’t know what you actually need to say on Thursday. Lessons here are built around the real situation in front of you, not a chapter in a textbook. If you’ve got a presentation next week, that’s the lesson. If it’s a difficult email you can’t quite get right, we work on that specific email.

Nineteen years of teaching, over a decade of that specifically in Business and exam-focused English, plus a career in IT consultancy before this, which turns out to matter: understanding what someone actually needs to hear, not just what they asked for, is the same skill in both fields.

Start with a free consultation, no pitch, just a conversation about what’s actually getting in your way.