Communication training for teams

Knowing isn’t the hard part. Convincing the room is.

Workshops and coaching for the part nobody trained them on: explaining the project, getting alignment, pitching the work, and giving feedback.

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  1. Start here

    Workshops

    Presentation skills, thinking on your feet, facilitation, and communicating in English.

  2. Coaching

    For people who dread the room, and for good presenters who want to be remembered the way they intend.

  3. Hosting

    I shape and emcee your all-hands, offsite, or launch so the day holds together.

  4. Licensing

    I build it and run it, certify your facilitators to run it, or fix the program you already have.

Selected clients includeCloudflareWeWorkNorthwestern University

The short version

18Years designing learning
10Of them inside tech, at WeWork and Netflix
7Countries trained in person
4,500Largest room, and the smallest was 4

Everyone in the room gets a turn.

In a small room everyone gets coached in front of the group. As the room grows, the reps happen in pairs at your seat, but nobody just watches.

I still think about the hook-writing exercise every time I open a slide deck.Director of Product, CloudflarePresentation skills workshop, 2025
Ashley England

I’m Ashley England.

  • 20years facilitating rooms
  • 18years designing how people learn
  • 15years in comedy theaters

More about me

Why training doesn’t stick

Nobody finishes a course and is suddenly good at this. They need a plan to use it again.

Most training is designed like a checklist. Or worse, like a presentation. The session runs, someone logs a completion rate and a CSAT score, and everyone moves on.

The only thing a completion rate measures is whether they completed it.

So we practice in the room, on their own real work, and they leave with something that still works when they open their laptop the next morning. And the next week, and eventually it becomes a habit, part of their behavior.

Yes, I can tell you whether they completed it and whether they liked it. I can also tell you which behaviors should visibly change afterward, because what they take away changes how they show up.

Ashley England emceeing the WeWork Summit at Madison Square Garden in 2019, microphone in hand, arm extended toward the audience
Madison Square Garden, WeWork Summit 2019.

Become unforgettable in rooms where it counts.

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.