About
Through his Writing with Clarity workshops, writing coach Ken O’Quinn has helped thousands of business professionals worldwide to express their ideas and tell their stories in ways that capture attention and keep readers engaged.
Corporate communicators, business professionals, and executives at such companies as Facebook, Chevron, Visa, Oracle, John Deere, Raytheon, Burson-Marsteller, and Fleishman Hillard have turned to Writing with Clarity for the techniques of well-crafted communication.
Writing has been Ken O’Quinn’s primary interest and lifelong profession. After a career in newspapers and with the Associated Press, he took his passion for the writing craft to the private sector as a corporate writing workshop leader.
Ken is the author of Perfect Phrases for Business Letters, and Business Writing for Managers.
Drawing on his extensive research, his writing and editing experience, and his compassion for writers, he provides a range of business professionals with important techniques and with the encouragement to write with confidence.
By Ken O’Quinn
As a contributing author in this book on leadership, Ken offers insights and tips for managing difficult conversations, providing effective feedback, and being authentic. Order here.
Perfect Phrases for Business Letters (McGraw-Hill)
Provides the right words and phrases for any situation - quickly. The book was reprinted in Japanese because of high-volume sales there.
TD at Work — Business Writing for Managers
The Association for Talent Development invited Ken to write this 22-page booklet for the TD at Work series.
Current Blog Post
Passive Voice is Not Always Wrong
The passive voice remains an easy target of business writing critics, but sometimes it is preferable to an active sentence. …