About English That Works

For anyone who has ever felt lost, excluded, or exhausted by the way English is used at work.

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Most workplace communication advice is written for people who are already comfortable. English That Works is written for the people doing their job brilliantly in English while the colleagues around them use it on autopilot, never having to think about a single word.

You're not behind. You're not broken. You don't need fixing. You need the right words, when they matter most. For the meeting on Monday. For the email you've been rewriting for twenty minutes. For the difficult conversation you've been putting off.

Who's writing this?

I'm Peter Quinn. For ten years I've worked in homelessness services in Northern Ireland, in one of the most politically charged corners of public service, securing funding, managing egos, writing briefings that had to land first time because people's homes depended on them. I've secured over £5 million for frontline services. Not because my grammar was perfect, but because I learned to say the right thing, to the right person, at the right moment and to stay quiet when staying quiet was the smarter move.

Right now I'm learning Spanish, ahead of a move to Spain. It's a humbling business. Wrestling with grammar I half-suspect I'll never use, arguing with myself about whether I really need this tense just to order a coffee. And of course, I do. I won't pretend it's the same as building a career in a language that isn't your first. But it's given me a glimpse and it's sharpened why I built this.

I built English That Works for everyone who has the expertise but feels English at work doesn't always do them justice. You already have the expertise. Let's make it visible.

If any of that resonates: here's the door.