Enrollment, Community, Communications
Many families overlook school communication because they’re overwhelmed or because they don’t understand what they receive. This session teaches skills that strengthen access, engagement, efficiency, and trust with families and colleagues. Participants often describe the training as both surprisingly challenging and genuinely fun as they tackle the most common challenges, including:
- Families feeling excluded and uninformed when communication isn’t clear
- Long, complex messages that get ignored; overcommunication is a real problem
- How confusion erodes trust
- And why most people never say when they don’t understand you
Learn immediately actionable strategies to make written and spoken communication more concise, clear, readable, and translatable — without losing content, meaning, or tone.
Lee is founder of Simplify Language, providing training to make written and spoken communication more concise, understandable, readable, and efficient.
Since 2023 he has trained over 10,000 people nationwide across hundreds of educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations.
Lee co-founded the nonprofit Intercambio Uniting Communities in 2000 and was the CEO for 20 years. During his leadership, Intercambio connected 10,000 adult immigrants with 5,000 volunteer English teachers in Boulder County and established a national network of several hundred organizations. Intercambio continues to thrive and in 2024 received $2M from the MacKenzie Scott Foundation.
He is author of The Immigrant Guide, which is offered in 10 languages and used by 300,000 immigrants to learn about systems and culture in the U.S.
He also offers coaching and training on how to make presentations, meetings and workshops more effective and engaging.
Lee is founder of Simplify Language, providing training to make written and spoken communication more concise, understandable, readable, and efficient.
Since 2023 he has trained over 10,000 people across hundreds of educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations.
Lee co-founded Intercambio Uniting Communities in 2000 and was the CEO for 20 years. Intercambio has connected over 20,000 adult English learners and volunteer English teachers, and it now supports hundreds of organizations nationwide.
Lee authored The Immigrant Guide, which is offered in 10 languages and used by 300,000 immigrants nationwide.
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I've trained hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of leaders nationwide on communication and culture.
I focus on offering keynote presentations and custom trainings to make written and spoken communication more concise, understandable, readable, and efficient for all audiences.
Before starting Simplify Language in 2022 I was CEO for 22 years of a national nonprofit, Intercambio Uniting Communities, that I co-founded to connect English-learners with community volunteers. The organization continues to thrive and received a $2M grant in 2024.