The Business Linguist
Are your words helping you think, or doing your thinking for you?
I’m Brett Rutledge. For more than 25 years, I’ve helped leaders work out what they actually mean before they say it, so their ideas land, their decisions hold, and people believe them.
1998 World Champion of Public Speaking · Clients include Microsoft, Toyota, GE, KPMG, Monash Health and all four major Australian banks
Polish isn’t the same as thinking.
Most corporate communication fails in a way nobody notices. It’s polished, confident and on-message, and the thinking underneath it was never finished. Words don’t just express what we think; they shape it. Fix the words, and the thinking comes with them.
Speaking
Keynotes on how language shapes thinking and decisions, from a World Champion of Public Speaking. Funny, practical and impossible to forget.
Consulting
SENSEMAP®, my method for turning complex strategy, identity and change into language people understand and act on.
Books
Non-fiction that tests popular business thinking, and fiction about systems and the people inside them.
Writing
Thoughts on the language that runs organisations, and writing for others: speeches, books, award submissions and the documents that simply have to land.
“You’ve done in one day what would have taken us six months.”
GE Australia
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