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Storytelling in business

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Explore our range of courses, covering all topic areas of writing at work.

Choose from three formats: prescheduled trainer-led courses open to anyone, self-paced online learning and tailored in-house courses built around your needs.

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If you’re considering our training, these pages will give you a fuller picture of what we do and how we do it – and how it can help you or your team.

Emphasis is the UK’s leading communication training provider, offering specialist learning programmes and consultancy services to private and public sector organisations all over the world.

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Emphasis has been enabling organisations and individuals to make their communication work for 25 years. Find out more about our story and our work below.

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Doug Nel

Journalist and sub-editor at major UK newspapers, professional copywriter

Doug is a journalist and staff sub-editor with nearly 20 years’​ experience. He’s worked with many of the largest newspapers in the UK – including The Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Sun.

Outside of Fleet Street, Doug is an experienced copywriter for the elite advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.

As a writing trainer for Emphasis, he passes on his razor-sharp instincts for writing that works to clients as diverse as London Business School, Ageas and the Crown Estate. He is also the lead course developer for our bespoke in-house training.

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