writing and editorial services

A Very Passionate Wordsmith

Excellent writing is best a spin-off. A communications expert, Tony Corballis is primarily an executive communication-performance coach, typically for accomplished or aspiring business leaders and thinkers. And he has a background in higher education. Yet, peripheral but closely linked to this, he is a passionate wordsmith. And loves it.

Corporate Support: Client Needs

This spin-off has been a consistent joy for over two decades in supporting wide-ranging clients and fulfilling their needs for self-promotion or written output.

Tony Corballis has provided writing and editorial services for executives in the City of London and other central business districts for decades.

Having briefly been an English teacher in the 1990s before managing an educational department spanning medical, business, vocational and academic English, he had the perfect an opportunity for leverage. With a commerce degree and some earlier experience working in an investment bank, and a master’s degree in public and organisational communication, he was well-equipped to comprehend and engage with heavyweight City of London commercial life.

So he quickly developed a thriving external and private business in providing language and editorial support to corporate executives, which morphed into a successful coaching and training business in all aspects of communication performance for high-calibre executives and those with aspirations. And a component of this was follow-up services in writing, editing, ghost-writing and proofing.

Employability, Director & C-Suite Perspectives

A decade later, a collaboration with what’s now the UK’s leading recruitment support and employability agency saw Tony Corballis designing and authoring a range of training and coaching programmes for them, which he went on to deliver. The leader in recruitment support, City CV Ltd., is a large team of award-winning global experts in authoring all supporting documentation to recruitment.

Through this he enjoyed intimate exposure to higher levels of corporate life than before. For over ten years he has regularly supported directors and c-suite individuals, largely in finance and investment banking, consultancy, insurance, IT, energy and infrastructure, but also in senior public sector, ex-military, operations, medicine, marketing and media, and other sectors. Thus Tony’s links with industry are extensive and deep.

Track Record in Corporate Writing:

• editing corporate reports and other executive output;
• copy writing for websites, across all sectors;
• writing and editing press releases;
• writing self-promotional documentation for promotions and recruitment;
• and delivering tailored and sustained training programmes, such as in writing for financial analysis, at Arax Properties Ltd. and for investigative writing for Nardello Ltd. and Risk Advisory Ltd.

Media, Creative & Marketing Support

Ultimately, Tony has written for more creative sectors as well. Over three decades ago he was an avid writer of fiction as a backpacker roaming the Global South, inspired by anthropology and philosophy electives in his otherwise business degree. More recently, his creative writing pursuits are somewhat more commercial:

• copywriting impactful rhetoric for NGO web content, newsletters and reports, including for PBI International;
• copywriting for web and other media, generally;
• ghost-writing for luxury brand PR;
• ghost-writing for contributors to glossy magazines, including Marie-Claire, Hong Kong Tatler, and Hello!
• proofing for book authors, including works of fiction and an autobiography;

Trusted Scholarly Foundations

With associations in the literary centre-of-the-universe, London’s Bloomsbury, and a base next to the University of London’s iconic Senate House, Tony thrives in the higher education community and has provided services to the sector for over two decades. He is set to be awarded the Senior Fellowship Higher Education Authority this autumn.

Linked to his tertiary-level pedagogical work in developing academic literacy and supporting postgraduate and doctoral candidates to write well, he has explored and been commissioned for extensive writing and editorial output, such as:

1. Editing scholarly research articles for authors from Middlesex University and Universitat Jaume I de Castelló on linguistics, finance, human resource management, business strategy and management, for publication in academic journals.

2. Authoring and co-authoring three text-books, including award-winning English for Management Studies, published by Garnet Education for worldwide distribution and winner of the 2009 ESU Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award.

3. Co-authoring, co-editing and implementing extensive commercial e-learning content for ACL Pty Ltd. bought to market in Australia, China, Thailand and Vietnam universities and other educational institutes.

4. Authoring many taught courses on writing and communication and on English for Economics, Finance, Management, International Business, at University of London SOAS, and English for Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Management and more vocational areas at Middlesex University.

5. Supporting countless high-calibre postgraduate, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates in their research and writing, at University of London SOAS,  Kings College London, University of the Arts London, London Metropolitan University, University of Technology Sydney, and the Aga Khan Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

6. Designing and writing materials for an MA module, including authoring complex assessment descriptors, subsequently delivered for many years at Middlesex University.

7. Undertaking and authoring a review for an educational department restructure at Middlesex University; and 8. project managing an annual university-wide browser-based skills and literacy diagnostic for 7000 learners, at Middlesex University.

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