Shontay Tuggle is a business communication coach and corporate trainer with more than fifteen years of experience helping non-native professionals speak and write English with clarity and authority. She has designed and delivered communication programs for teams in technology, finance, healthcare, engineering, and international development, working with learners across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Her training approach is built on a single conviction: confident communication is a learned skill, not an inborn talent. Participants in her workshops are known for something unusual—they leave with structure, strategies, and a personal action plan, not a list of grammar rules to memorize. She has helped engineers present to executive boards, analysts negotiate with international clients, and early-career professionals find their voice in meetings where they once stayed silent.
Before becoming an independent coach, Shontay led corporate learning and development programs and global communications initiatives in multinational organizations, where she saw talented professionals repeatedly underestimated simply because they hesitated to speak. That experience shaped the philosophy at the heart of this book: lead with your ideas, and let clarity do the rest.
Shontay lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she mentors international students and writes about communication in the modern workplace. *Confident Business English* is her first book.