Not every problem needs a consultant, a long project or another report.
Sometimes you simply need an experienced external view, a native English speaker who can tell you whether something really works, or a critical reader who will spot the weaknesses before someone else does.
These services are short, practical and deliberately bounded. You know what you are buying and where the engagement ends. They draw on more than thirty years of experience across management, higher education, international business education and Central Asia, combined with current work on AI, organizations and the changing world of work.
A focused 60-minute discussion on a problem, decision or idea.
Particularly useful for AI and organizations, higher education, business education, Kazakhstan and Central Asia, international accreditation, university strategy, management education, research and publication, and institutional development.
Before you publish it, present it or send it internationally, have an educated native English speaker read it.
This is not basic proofreading and it is not translation. The purpose is to check whether the English sounds natural, professional and credible to an international reader.
Suitable for executive communications, presentations, websites, reports, academic material, conference speeches, biographies and other important English-language material.
Standard: up to 1,500 words or approximately 12 slides.
Extended: up to 3,000 words or approximately 25 slides.
AI makes it easy for non-native English speakers to produce fluent-looking English. The problem is that fluent-looking English is not always good English.
AI-generated text can be grammatically correct while still sounding unnatural, repetitive, overconfident, excessively formal or obviously machine-produced.
I check whether the English sounds natural, whether AI has introduced awkward or generic phrasing, whether the intended meaning has been preserved, whether the tone is appropriate, and whether claims have become stronger or more certain than intended.
Standard: up to 1,500 words or approximately 12 slides.
Extended: up to 3,000 words or approximately 25 slides.
A realistic 45-minute rehearsal for professionals and academics preparing for an important international conversation.
Suitable for international jobs, MBA and doctoral admissions, scholarships, board appointments, promotions, conference appearances and similar situations.
This is not an English lesson. I ask the questions an experienced international interviewer might ask and identify where the candidate is convincing, unclear, overly cautious or inadvertently sending the wrong signal.
A rapid external review of an English-language business, investor or institutional presentation.
The focus is not graphic design. It is whether an international audience will understand and believe the argument.
I look particularly at structure, clarity, language, unsupported claims, jargon, missing logic, confusing slides and assumptions that may make sense locally but not internationally.
Give me the document and ask me to find the weaknesses before somebody else does.
This is a deliberately skeptical external review of a strategy, accreditation submission, programme proposal, partnership proposal, institutional document or similar piece of work.
The purpose is not to rewrite the document. It is to identify likely reviewer questions, insufficiently supported claims, inconsistencies, gaps in logic and areas where the argument may be much less convincing to an outsider than it appears internally.
Send me a short description of what you need and, where relevant, the material to be reviewed. If it fits one of these services, we agree the task and scope before starting. If it does not fit, I will say so.
To discuss a service, use the contact page, WhatsApp at +7 701 733 2805, or email es4almaty@gmail.com. Payment details are provided when the service is confirmed.