by Olivia Augustin | May 6, 2023 | Solo Session
You can hold a technical conversation, defend your work in a meeting, and handle the hard parts of your job in a second language. And then a blank email opens, the cursor blinks, and a two-minute task turns into twenty. If that’s the thing that quietly eats your...
by Olivia Augustin | Apr 14, 2023 | Guest Interview
Highly educated, highly capable professionals still freeze up mid-sentence in a foreign language. That’s the starting point for this episode with Candice Lee — realtor, relocation specialist, and my friend of almost 20 years — who’s spent over a decade...
by Olivia Augustin | Feb 20, 2023 | Cross Over
Engineers are trained to communicate in steps. Step 1, step 2, step 3. Read the diagram, follow the procedure, done. But the moment a project manager asks you to cut a 4-hour safety orientation down to 20 minutes, or a client asks you to sign off on something outside...
by Olivia Augustin | Jul 8, 2022 | Guest Interview
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Andrea Zimmerl, a fellow Viennese and a fellow engineer, who made one of the boldest career changes an engineer can make: she went from plastics engineering to communication coaching, life coaching, and...
by Olivia Augustin | Jun 2, 2022 | Guest Interview
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Becky Paroz, a 30-year veteran of the Australian construction industry, engineer, project manager, and quality assurance specialist, to talk about why industry jargon might be costing your international team...
