Hello!
Welcome to the online Business English Coach website aimed at professional people who use English either part-time or full-time in their jobs or businesses.
About Me – Why I am here to help you!
My name is Lesley and I am the founder of the Online Business English Coach programs.
I am a native English speaker from London in the United Kingdom. I am a qualified Chartered Accountant and worked for many years in the City of London.
My career has been varied and interesting having worked as a partner in a global property business in London. However, in the later years of working in my business, I gained great satisfaction and became passionate about teaching and coaching, especially helping my international colleagues with their spoken and written English.
As I managed a culturally diverse team, I understand the communication challenges faced when English is not your first language. I also taught and mentored many graduates and business professionals for pitching and presentation skills as well as helping them to pass professional exams.
I have seen intelligent professionals, who are brilliant at their jobs, extremely stressed and lacking confidence in communicating in English. With my help, they have now developed their confidence and received compliments about their English communication skills from their native speaking colleagues.
I enjoyed seeing their progress which encouraged me to take further training and qualified as a TEFL teacher to enable me to develop programs to help other professionals gain their public speaking voice.
How can I help?
I know how to help you improve your communication skills. Whether it is pronunciation, vocabulary or just someone to listen to you rehearse an important speech or presentation.
Does this describe the help you need to improve your English communication skills?
- You need someone to listen to your speech and correct it so you can improve your communication skills.
- You need to improve your English to converse in your workplace.
- You need to talk to clients with confidence and engage with them.
- Socialising has been difficult but everything, with helpful tuition, can become easier, natural, and fluent.
- Presentations and business sales pitches appear boring to your audience and you feel self-conscious. You don’t know what to do with their hands and/or body.
All of this can be made easy with some work and guidance from me – the Online Business English Coach.
What is “The Online Business English Coach”?
The Online Business English Coach consists of blog posts and free resources, recommended programs to help you speak English with ease and confidence as quickly as possible. The recommended programs from my company English speaking professionals or other third party companies not only focus on the spoken or written English skills but also on body language, cultural differences and the best ways to deal with difficult situations when using English as a second language. I am trying to gather the best resources to help you.
I will be writing regular blog posts to help you improve your English aand therefore, benefit your career advancement and professional status.
Teaching business English is my passion and I come with experience of business protocols and how to teach English. I have the first-hand experience of having to talk in front of diverse audiences – from Board Room presentations to face-to-face customer meetings – but also experience of being able to coach you in the language required to help you improve your English and your personal presentation.
So if you need some help, contact me
Here we will be discussing ways to help and some tips available to the ESL professional, so please keep in touch as there will be lots of free advice.
If you have any questions about improving your English, feel free to leave them below and I will be more than happy to help you out.
All the best,
Lesley
