You understand English—but can’t speak under pressure?
ENGLISH CAMP trains performance for business situations.
Meetings, presentations, negotiations.
What is ENGLISH CAMP?
ENGLISH CAMP is a 3-month online group training program designed for real business situations.
The program has been running since 2017, helping ambitious professionals develop the one skill that changes everything in global business: real, essential English communication that works in the real world.
This is not “English study.”
This is business communication training—for meetings, presentations, and negotiations where clarity, confidence, and speed matter.
Why ENGLISH CAMP?
At ENGLISH CAMP, you will…
- TRAIN real business English for meetings, presentations, and negotiations
- BUILD essential communication skills: listening, thinking, and speaking
- FOCUS on one presentation and master it with confidence
- LEARN how to speak clearly—even under pressure
- STOP overthinking grammar and start communicating effectively
- IMPROVE faster through intensive input + output training
- RECEIVE positive feedback from coach and classmates
- DEVELOP an “English mode” you can switch on anytime
- GAIN practical skills you can use immediately at work
- STUDY with motivated business professionals in a focused group environment
- LEARN from a strategy consultant (MBA UCLA / former BCG) with global business experience
- INVEST 12 weeks to upgrade your career and global opportunities
The ENGLISH CAMP Method — 6 Key Features —
1. Build Strong Presentation & Meeting Skills in English
In ENGLISH CAMP, you train practical skills for English presentations and English meetings.
By practicing both, you improve your overall communication ability—listening, thinking, and speaking—so you can perform confidently in real business situations.
Final Presentation Example
“I had to give a presentation on my business trip to the U.S., and that was my final goal.
Through the presentation training, my English improved, and I was also able to clearly express my values and message as a leader in English. That was the biggest takeaway for me.”
Mikiko, Automotive Manufacturer
2. Don’t just study English—train it.
We believe there are three main reasons why many non-native English speakers find it hard to speak English:
- They don’t feel confident in English.
- Grammar and vocabulary don’t come out quickly.
- They don’t know what to say.
To solve these three issues, we provide intensive input and output training.
ENGLISH CAMP vs. Typical English Conversation School
If I described ENGLISH CAMP in one phrase, I’d say it’s a “Business English Boot Camp.”
It’s tough, but I truly feel like I’m building real skills step by step.
The sense of achievement we got by pushing through together until the end was amazing.
Sayaka, Trading Company
3. Focus on your goal.
At ENGLISH CAMP, we believe in focusing on one thing first and doing it exceptionally well.
That’s why our main focus is to help you perfect one presentation, with the final presentation as a shared goal for everyone in the program.
By focusing on one presentation and completing it to a high standard, you improve your structure, vocabulary, and expression, and you build real confidence.
“Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”
Focus on your goal
Focusing on the presentation throughout the program was extremely valuable. The words and phrases I researched and prepared on my own really stayed with me. And by practicing the presentation again and again, English expressions and rhythm became natural—almost like they were installed in my brain.
Masaki, Software Engineer
4. Turn on English mode
We design our program based on our “English Improvement Formula”:
English improvement = training volume × training quality
To ensure both the amount and quality of training, you will work on a large amount of homework and immerse your brain in English for three months. By doing the homework, your English skills will improve dramatically.
In our online classes, we create a two-hour, nonstop training environment where you practice speaking and listening in English.
English Improvement Formula
The biggest takeaway from ENGLISH CAMP was realizing that I can study English anytime, anywhere. I learned that even small moments—like commuting to the nearest station or waiting for the train—can be turned into English study time with a little creativity.
Hiroshi, Management Consultant
5. Train real-world English communication skills
In international business, you are not judged by perfect grammar or beautiful pronunciation.
What matters is whether you can say something valuable about the topic in the meeting.
At ENGLISH CAMP, you learn to communicate strong ideas and clear messages about your own work and business.
That’s why we don’t correct every small grammar or pronunciation mistake. If you focus too much on being “correct,” you won’t be able to speak in real communication situations.
By creating an English presentation about my own business, I was able to rethink the business itself. In my native language, my explanations often became too long and indirect, but in English, I naturally had to organize my thoughts and message in a simpler, clearer way.
Akihiko, CEO of a Design Firm
6. Learn from coaches with real international business experience.
ENGLISH CAMP is a program created by Akira Toda, a strategy consultant with extensive international business experience—an MBA graduate from UCLA and a former BCG consultant.
All of our other coaches are also non-native English speakers with international business experience.
ENGLISH CAMP demands real effort. You’re constantly reminded that there’s no easy shortcut—English doesn’t improve without hard work. And the instructor keeps raising the bar the whole time.
Yasu, System Integrator
Your Coaches
Hinase Ortiz — English Training Coach (based in San Diego, California, USA)
Hinase Ortiz is bilingual in Japanese and English. She studied abroad in Las Vegas at the age of 13 with almost zero English skills, and became fluent within six months. At 18, she moved to Seattle to attend university, majoring in hospitality business, and has lived in the U.S. ever since. Her native language is Japanese, and she is a native-level bilingual in English.
In San Diego, she connected with the founder of a startup and joined the business. As the company’s CCO (Chief Communications Officer), she has led a wide range of areas including strategy, marketing, customer management, sales, team management, service development, digital transformation (DX), and UI/UX.
She also supports startups through side projects and pro bono work, including digital marketing support and DX initiatives for a local preschool in San Diego.
Because she struggled to learn English herself—and has worked with Japanese colleagues who also face challenges—her strength is her ability to deeply understand learners’ struggles and support them with empathy.
Noriko Ikeda — English Training Coach (based in Miyazaki, Japan)
While at university, Noriko participated in an exchange program at a Canadian university. After graduation, she moved to the United States and gained hands-on professional experience working in English at a company in Portland, Oregon.
Upon returning to Japan, she worked in the development division of a major automotive parts manufacturer, handling interpretation and translation, and accompanying business trips to the United States and Europe. Through these experiences, she developed practical English skills in real business environments.
She later transferred to the company’s Human Resources department, where she planned and managed in-house English training programs. She designed training directly connected to real-world business needs, launched study groups, and facilitated sessions — supporting employees who eventually achieved overseas assignments.
Having personally struggled with English learning and gone through years of trial and error, Noriko deeply understands why professionals find it difficult to speak and where they typically get stuck. Drawing on her extensive experience supporting business professionals who lack confidence in English, she now provides practical, highly transferable English training rooted in real-world experience.
She works with business professionals who want to use English confidently at work and express their ideas clearly, offering structured, results-driven training that can be immediately applied in professional settings.
Akira Toda — Program Design & Learning Strategy (based in Orange County, California, USA)
Akira Toda has extensive international business experience, including cross-border M&A and global projects across Asia, Africa, and Silicon Valley. He began his career at Itochu Corporation, where he worked on international business initiatives and cross-border M&A.
He later joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and spent one year as a member of an international project team based overseas. He also served at GLOBIS University as an instructor in the English MBA program and as a marketing manager.
In 2011, Akira started his own business as a strategy consultant. Since 2017, he has led ENGLISH CAMP.
In 2018, he founded a strategy consulting firm in the United States, and in 2021, he relocated to California. Today, he runs businesses in both Japan and the U.S., and operates Strategy School and ENGLISH CAMP online.
He holds a B.A. in English Studies from Sophia University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He is known for simple, direct, and easy-to-understand communication in both Japanese and English. In 2024, he published a business book in English in the United States.