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Storytelling in business

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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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Doug Nel

Doug is a journalist, sub-editor and copywriter with 20 years’ experience in getting words to work as effectively as possible. He’s worked on national newspapers including the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The Evening Standard</em>, <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>, <em>The Times</em> and <em>The Sun</em>.

He’s also one of our expert business-writing trainers and our lead course developer. He’s helped clients as diverse as London Business School, Airbus, Deutsche Bank and Aon to make more of an impact with everything they write.

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