About Helen Wilkie

Helen Wilkie is a professional keynote speaker, workshop leader and author, based in Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about communication. When she speaks, whether in a keynote, conference workshop, or client in-house workshop, her audience is captivated by that passion. She strongly believes that in business, communication directly affects the bottom line, and her mission is to help business people get their messages across so that the effect will be positive.

Helen began her business, MHW Communications, in 1990 as a corporate writer. In 1993 a client asked her to teach his employees how to write "a decent business letter", and that request resulted in her first workshop, Effective Business Writing -- still a repeat favourite among her clients. From there she branched out into speaking on other forms of communication, such as presentation skills, meeting skills, networking, communicating for success, persuasive communication and more. Information about her other programs can be found on her main website at MHW Communications.

This website, Helen Wilkie's "Mastering Business Writing", provides information about the various ways in which Helen shares her expertise in this most important of workplace skills. Clients for her business writing programs include...

Law firms, such as Aird & Berlis, McMillan Binch, Torys, Lerner's, Blake Cassels & Graydon

Corporations, such as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Deloitte, Grand & Toy, McDonald's Restaurants of Canada, PetroCanada Products

Associations, such as the Canadian Society of Association Executives, Canadian Welding Bureau, Institute of Internal Auditors of Ontario, International Association of Assembly Managers (Cappell, Texas), Canadian Management Centre of the American Management Association

Government Offices, such as the Department of National Defence and the Ministry of the Attorney General

...to name just a few. This list is constantly expanding, and many are repeat clients who bring Helen in year after year to present her writing programs to employees at all levels. She has also worked one-on-one with people at executive levels to coach them in their own writing skills.