It’s almost never a language problem.
This is communication training for people presenting in English when it isn’t their primary language. It isn’t a grammar class and nobody corrects an accent. The work is structure, a strong opening, and enough practice to speak from notes rather than read a script, because the confidence problem gets misdiagnosed as a fluency one.
Sessions run in Asia, across Europe, and in Mexico and South America.
The confidence problem is real. It just gets misdiagnosed.
Teams I work with are global, and plenty of the people in the room are presenting in a language they learned second. What they usually believe is that their English is the thing holding them back, so they over-prepare, script every word, and read it out. The scripting is what costs them.
Nobody leaves a meeting remembering how fluent someone was. They remember how the person made them feel, and what they took away. That part is entirely buildable, and it doesn’t require better English.
So the work here is the same work as any other session, aimed at a different worry: a clear structure so the audience can follow without perfect grammar carrying the load, a strong opening so the room is with you before you get to the hard sentence, and enough practice that you can lift your eyes off the script.
This one gets requested by the people who need it.
“Many of the ideas we brainstormed together in the morning were immediately implemented the very same day, and were well received by attendees, even those for whom US English wasn’t their first language.”
Senior HRBP, WeWork
From Presentation to Facilitation
This gets booked most often after employees ask for it themselves. Someone raises communicating in English as a development need, and it lands with L&D as a language request when it’s really a confidence one.
I’ve run these sessions in Asia, across Europe, and in Mexico and South America.
The things people ask first.
Is this an English class?
No. Nobody corrects grammar and nobody corrects an accent. It’s communication training for people who already work in English and want to be understood, remembered, and taken seriously when they present.
Can this run alongside our other training?
Yes, and it often does. It shares a spine with Presentation Skills, so teams sometimes run both, or run this version for one region and the standard one elsewhere.
Does it work in a global hybrid session?
Yes. Some people together in a room, others dialing in across time zones. It’s genuinely hard to run well, and it’s the format where this topic comes up most.
Tell me about your team.
Tell me who the team is and what you want them doing differently. I build the session around those answers, and then read the room on the day.