Write with Confidence.

Susan Parker – Writing Coach

I work with super smart
professionals like you who
struggle to get their ideas
across in writing.

You have important insights, perspectives, and findings to share. But putting them down in writing can seem like a frustrating, even torturous experience. Maybe you never got the training or help you needed as you focused on developing an expertise in your field. 

Or you had a terrible experience with an editor or boss that makes the very idea of writing traumatic. Or you feel like you’re a decent writer but you want to get better.

Like it or not, writing is still one of the main ways we communicate and get our ideas noticed and acted on.

You have something to say that the world needs to hear,
and I’d like to help you.

My approach as a writing coach is to help you express yourself in your voice, not mine, or any other “standard” that you may have heard about or are trying to emulate. I do have some tools and approaches; they are all meant to be in service of making your ideas and voice as clear and compelling as possible to the people you want to reach and influence.

You won’t spend as much time agonizing over writing—it will flow.

We will have fun.

This is not a forced march where I make you diagram sentences or learn tedious grammar rules. Every idea I share with you will be in the service of making writing easier for you, and more impactful.

You will get encouraged in the spots where you might feel vulnerable and pushed in those where you may hesitate to use your own voice.

    Pick the plan that works for you.

    I offer a variety of packages for coaching and can also customize them for you.

    You will get a personalized approach that meets your needs and circumstances,
    not a cookie cutter, by the numbers one.

    Sprinting to
    Make a Deadline

    Short, urgent projects
    that need to be done in
    about a month.

    Building
    Your Muscle

    Ongoing writing needs using more complex projects to try out new approaches

    Learning for
    the Long Haul

    Working with multiple staff, grantees, or consultants who regularly produce writing.

    If you decide you want to offload the writing to someone else for now, check out my writing services at www.clearthinkingcommunications.com

    I am very grateful for all your support and coaching. I hear your voice in my head – keep it simple, you own it, say what you really want to say! Many thanks again. It was great to work with you and I hope we get a chance to collaborate again in the future.”

    Karuna Chibber

    Evaluation & Learning Officer, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

    I absolutely want more writing coaching!  Our sessions were so helpful – I felt so liberated after writing those emails!  It was a wonderful feeling – to be able to write using me, my personality, and my recommendations.”

    Nancy Gagliano

    Director, NJ Department of Children and Families

    Let’s work together.

    You will have a newfound confidence in sharing your hard won expertise and insights.