Business English training
English that carries authority, not just accuracy.
Business English lessons and corporate English training for executives, international teams and client-facing professionals in London and online. Programmes are written against the meetings, presentations and negotiations your people actually face — then reported to whoever signs the budget off.
Why companies buy this
The problem is rarely the English. It is the room.
Fluency is not the objective. Being effective in English, in the situations your business cares about, is.
Most of the professionals we train already have good English. They read the contract, they answer the email, they pass the test. What they cannot yet do is hold the floor in a fast meeting, disagree with a client without sounding blunt, or present to a board and still sound like the senior person they are.
That gap costs an organisation real money. Contributions go unmade in meetings, decisions get taken by the people who spoke most fluently rather than most sensibly, and capable managers are quietly passed over for the client-facing role.
A generic English course will not close it, because the difficulty is not a level. It is register, speed, intelligibility and confidence under pressure — and those are trained against real situations, not units in a book.
Our tutor selection and matching is reviewed by The Good Schools Guide, and Learn&Co is a member of The Tutors' Association.
Who the programme is for
Who inside the organisation needs English?
International teams working in English
Colleagues from five countries running a project in a language none of them grew up in. The training targets shared clarity: how meetings are chaired, how decisions are confirmed, and how misunderstandings get caught before they become rework.
Executives and senior hires
Leaders who need to sound authoritative rather than careful: board updates, town halls, difficult conversations, and the ability to be persuasive at speed in front of people who will not slow down for them.
Client-facing and commercial staff
Sales, account management, advisory and professional services. Pitching, handling objections, negotiating terms, and the hospitality language that keeps a client relationship warm between contracts.
Professionals relocating to the UK
Strong technical English, unfamiliar British register. Understatement, indirectness, humour in meetings and the difference between 'that's interesting' and agreement — plus the written tone expected in UK correspondence.
What we actually train
The business English that decides outcomes.
Meetings at native speed
Following several accents at once, interrupting without apologising for it, holding a position when the discussion turns, and coming back into a conversation you were pushed out of.
Presenting and being questioned
Structuring a case in English, signposting so a room can follow, and handling the Q&A — which is where prepared English usually collapses.
Negotiation and precision
Conditions, caveats, hedging and the difference between a firm no and a polite one. Getting numbers, deadlines and liabilities right out loud, first time.
Professional register
The distance between correct English and appropriate English: how direct to be with a client, a regulator, a junior colleague or a board — in speech and in writing.
Intelligibility, not accent removal
We do not train people out of their accent. We train the specific sounds, stress patterns and pacing that make them misheard on a bad conference line.
Written business English
Email tone, reports, proposals and internal comms that read as competent and native-paced rather than translated.
What the training looks like
Rehearsal for the meeting you have next week.
Selected network first, matching within it second. The tutors were interviewed and accepted into our network long before your enquiry arrived; what happens after the brief is design, selection and oversight — not recruitment.
Sessions built on your own material
Your decks, your contracts, your call recordings where confidentiality allows, your industry's terminology. Learners rehearse the meeting they have next week, not a case study about a fictional company.
Rehearsal, not lecture
Most of the hour is the learner speaking under realistic pressure — a simulated negotiation, a hostile question, a two-minute update — with the tutor correcting what actually undermines them.
Mixed levels handled honestly
Where a team spans several levels, we assess individually and stream the group. Nobody is held back and nobody is drowning; the syllabus and vocabulary stay shared so the team still speaks a common professional English.
Scheduling that survives the diary
Early mornings, evenings, split sessions, remote weeks. Programmes are bought in monthly blocks rather than fixed slots so travel does not break the rhythm.
How it is run
From scoping call to week-six review.
Scoping call
Twenty minutes with Maria: who is learning, what they have to be able to do in English, by when, and who signs the training off.
Level assessment
Every learner is assessed individually — speaking as well as grammar — so a mixed-ability team is grouped honestly rather than averaged into one useless class.
Written objectives and proposal
You receive objectives written as tasks, a recommended format, a schedule and a price. Nothing starts until the business has signed that off.
Specialist selection
We select from tutors already interviewed into our English network — by sector as much as by language — and you meet them before anything is committed.
Delivery around the working week
Weekly sessions online, at your offices or at ours in London, early mornings and evenings included, with a rescheduling policy that assumes business travel exists.
Reporting and the week-six review
Monthly written progress reports against the agreed objectives, attendance visible, and a founder-led review at week six to adjust pace, objectives or tutor.
Formats and investment
Three ways to structure your programme.
Companies buy corporate training in three different shapes, so we price it in three different ways. Executive programmes start at £120/hr per learner, bought in hours; open business terms start at £950 per person for ten weeks; a closed team programme is quoted in full after the scoping call, once the number of learners, the spread of levels and the frequency are clear. All figures include VAT.
Executive one-to-one
One person, one objective, complete flexibility.
A bespoke English programme for a single executive or specialist, built around the meetings, documents and clients that person actually deals with.
- Objectives agreed in writing before the first session
- Material drawn from your own documents and meetings
- Online, at your offices or at ours in London
- Monthly written reporting to the budget holder
From £120/hr
Bought in hours, per learner, VAT included: 4 hours at £120/hr (£480) month to month, down to £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896).
Closed in-company group
One team, one syllabus, one invoice.
A group from the same organisation taught together in English, streamed by level so nobody is held back or left behind.
- Levels assessed individually, then grouped honestly
- Sector vocabulary shared across the whole team
- Consolidated reporting across locations
- Suits teams of three and upwards
Quoted
Calculated on group size, the spread of levels, frequency and whether you want us on site — quoted in full after the scoping call.
Open business group term
A ten-week term at a shared price.
Live small-group business English, for companies sending one or two people, or professionals who prefer to learn alongside others.
- Ten-week terms, maximum six people
- Professional syllabus, not a general course
- Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, London and online
- Invoiced to the company on request
From £950
Per person for a ten-week term, including VAT. A1–A2 £950, B1–B2 £1,050, C1–C2 £1,150. Maximum six people.
All figures include VAT. We invoice companies directly, work to purchase orders, and can provide the documentation, insurance and safeguarding information procurement teams ask for.
The evidence
Delivered inside law firms, hedge funds, publishing houses and global groups.
From our corporate clients
Our corporate training record.
A filmed client testimonial from our corporate training work, alongside verified reviews from professionals and companies across our languages — evidence of how we work, not all of it specific to business English.
“As English isn’t my native language, I’ve always tried to improve my skills by taking different courses, whether group sessions or one-to-one. Working with Marianne and Learn&Co has been, without a doubt, my best experience. Marianne is an…”
“I started taking lessons with Maria about six months ago in order to try and get my rusty French to a good enough level that I could use it professionally in my work as a lawyer. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Her enthusiasm and…”
“We came across Learn&Co thanks to a recommendation from a friend at Hyperion Insurance Group. He was so happy with their corporate language training that we decided to contact them and set up a trial lesson. It’s now been over 6 months…”
“I have been taking classes to improve my French and Spanish with Learn&Co for the past year and I have to say I’m loving it. I’m impressed with the quality and structure of the lessons. I feel like I’m making great progress. A few months…”
“Could not recommend more highly — a wonderful tutor. I have been tutored by Maria through work for a year and it has been a fantastic experience. The lessons are well structured (split between grammar, presentation, conversation, question…”
“I started French tutoring with Maria about 4 months ago and it has been incredibly beneficial. I work for a large financial corporation and I wanted to increase our business presence in the French speaking countries in North Africa. Maria…”
“I was looking for a mix of help with social chat in french, developing my professional french and rebooting my grammar and written french that had suffered from years of underuse. Maria is funny, engaging and highly skilful as a teacher.…”
Questions
Before you brief us.
- How is corporate English training with Learn&Co different from a platform licence?
- A licence gives your people access to content and hopes they use it. We are a consultancy: objectives are written with you, a specialist is matched from our existing network by sector, sessions are live and built on your own material, and progress is reported monthly to the person who bought it.
- Our team is at very different levels. Does that ruin a group programme?
- No, provided it is handled at the start. Every learner is assessed individually before the programme is designed, and a mixed team is streamed into two or three groups with a shared syllabus and shared vocabulary. We will tell you honestly when a group is the wrong purchase and one-to-one is not.
- What does Business English training cost?
- Bespoke Business English programmes are bought in hours: 4 hours at £120/hr (£480) month to month, down to £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896), VAT included, and are quoted in full after the scoping call, once the number of learners, the objective and the frequency are clear. Open business group terms start at £950 per person for a ten-week term (A1–A2 £950, B1–B2 £1,050, C1–C2 £1,150). We invoice companies directly and work to purchase orders.
- Do you deliver in person, or only online?
- Both. We teach at your offices in London, at ours, and online for teams spread across offices or time zones. Most corporate programmes end up mixed, and the format can change mid-programme without renegotiating anything.
- How do we know whether it is working?
- Progress is measured against the tasks agreed at the start — chair the weekly call unaided, present to the client without a script, handle the renewal conversation — not against an abstract level. You receive monthly written reports and a founder-led review at week six, and CEFR benchmarking where a formal measure is required.
- Can you prepare our staff for IELTS or another English test?
- Yes. Where a visa, a professional registration or a promotion depends on a formal score, we run exam-focused English preparation against the test date alongside or instead of the general programme.
- Who are the tutors?
- Specialists already interviewed and selected into our network before your enquiry ever arrives — experienced business English trainers with real sector exposure. The match is made within that network against your brief and your sector, with Maria overseeing it, and you meet the tutor before anything is committed.
- Can you cover several offices or countries?
- Yes. We run programmes across locations with one point of contact, one schedule and consolidated reporting, so L&D is not managing several unrelated suppliers.
- What happens if the tutor is not the right fit?
- You tell us and we rematch, at no cost. That is the point of the week-six review, and it is the reason the tutor meets the learner before the programme is signed off.
Other ways to learn English
Not a corporate programme? There is another route.
Ready to brief us?
Twenty minutes with Maria.
Tell Maria who is learning, what they must be able to do in English and by when. She will tell you how we would approach it, which specialist she would match them with, and what it would cost.
Maria Toubbe
- 20 minutes
- A conversation, not a sales call.
- With Maria
- Our founder, every time — not a call centre.
- No obligation
- Advice you can use even if you never book.
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