Clear writing

made easy

Our workshops teach professionals how to write clear and concise documents faster and with more confidence.

We bring over 40 years’ experience working in nearly every industry and with every document type in North America. Our training works.

What we teach your people to do

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What clients have achieved with our training

By applying the content we teach, our clients have:

  • cut time to produce documents by 50% (from start to final approval)

  • reduced quarterly reporting by hundreds of pages

  • turned 41% readability scores to 98%

  • received drastically fewer appeals on decisions

  • improved employee engagement scores

  • won plain language awards


We offer a free consult to discuss current challenges, services we offer to help solve them, and example work we’ve done with other clients.

Workplace writing workshops by industry

Check out our self-paced courses

Level up your writing skills from your living room.

Get better solutions for the documents you write often

  • Briefing notes and memos

    Give decision makers clear, skilled, and concise analysis

  • Board reporting

    Deliver clearer reporting and metrics in fewer pages

  • Business cases

    Build clear, well-evidenced cases quickly

  • Council reports

    Build public trust by writing strong, clear council reports

  • Court briefs and decisions

    Marry facts and law efficiently, persuasively, and accessibly

  • Environmental assessments

    Communicate findings clearly for multiple stakeholders (and draft more quickly)

  • Governance and strategy documents

    Develop clear, high-level principles and strategies and effective tools to implement them

  • Investigation reports

    Communicate objective, fair findings in a way readers understand and accept

  • Marketing and comms plans

    Refine messages to be accurate, persuasive, and flexible for different platforms and audiences

  • Policies and procedures

    Develop clear guidance documents that staff understand and comply with

  • Proposals, RFPs, and grants

    Write clear, powerful proposals or responses to RFPs (or create stronger RFPs for bidders)

  • Rules, standards, and bylaws

    Set out requirements that are easier to understand, comply with, and enforce

  • Speaking notes

    Set speakers up for success with clear, usable notes and best practices

  • Style guides and writing standards

    Develop common principles and goals for documents in your organization or department

  • Technical reports

    Write technical reports that stand out from the norm because of their clarity and organization

  • Templates

    Build templates to reproduce clarity and consistency (and don’t make a writer’s job harder)

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What people say about our training

Thank you again for an outstanding writing course. I found that this has fundamentally changed how I approach every email and every newly created document.

—Public school board manager

I’ve been taking training sessions with the federal government for 24 years, and this is by far the best one I’ve taken.

—Director of a federal
regulatory body

I’ve taken this course three times, and I’ll probably take it again. Each time I learn something new and I continue to build my skills as a writer.

—Investigator with child and family services

Some of our clients