Book cover titled 'Email Lemonade: Refreshing Email Etiquette for Today's Workplace; How to Communicate Clearly, Build Trust, and Get Ahead' by Cheryl Soule Sutton, featuring a tall glass of lemonade with lemon slices and a straw.

Your emails should sound as capable as you are.

Email Lemonade is the refreshingly practical guide to email communication in the workplace — giving you the advantage your career deserves.

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When you write an email, are you focused on what you want to say — or how it will be received?

Most of us default to the first. We’re overwhelmed. We’re multitasking. We fire off messages quickly and move on. We go on autopilot.

And that's when we send email lemons - messages that unintentionally damage relationships and hold us back.

Email Lemonade challenges this pattern. You’ll learn how to serve up clarity and refreshment instead of frustration — writing emails that strengthen relationships and help you move work (and your career) forward.

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Hi, I’m Cheryl.

Years ago, I witnessed a silly “email lemon” incident in the office, and I got a little mad. It wasn't anything unusual for a corporate office, but I was struck by the inefficiency and rudeness I was witnessing. And I remember thinking, Wait a second… email is such a critical communication skill that we use every day. Why don’t we get taught this stuff?

I couldn’t get that question out of my head.

I don’t believe capable people should be held back simply because no one taught them how to approach email thoughtfully. So I’ve been on a mission to fill that gap.

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked across diverse corporate environments and built business relationships on six continents. I hold an MBA from Northwestern University and have taught Business Communications at the college level, as well as brought my Email Lemonade approach to businesses and universities alike.

Because of that experience, everything I share is grounded in the real world — and designed to help your emails reflect how capable you already are.

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  • In college or early in your career — and never got real guidance on professional email

  • A capable professional ready to communicate with more clarity and impact

  • A manager who wants to elevate communication on your team

  • A parent who wants to give your young adult a strong start in the workplace

If you are:

Email Lemonade was written for you.

Bring Email Lemonade to life

For Teams & Organizations

Interactive workshops bring the principles of Email Lemonade into the workplace, with practical examples, discussion, and email makeovers participants can immediately apply to their own communication. Each workshop is tailored to your audience, workplace, and communication challenges.

Practical training to make workplace communication clearer, more thoughtful, and more effective

For Individuals

Want to communicate with more confidence and clarity at work? Whether you’re preparing for an internship, starting your first job, or well into your career, a one-on-one Email Lemonade session offers personalized coaching on the everyday email skills that rarely get taught.

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The communication practices I learned from you way back then, have served me so well - to this day.

Leveraging Email Lemonade's teachings, I've been able to guide teams through incredible challenges, create order and cohesion in moments of disarray, diffuse conflicts with grace, establish trust with my teams through clear and thoughtful communication, and much more. I've probably even landed jobs, at least in part, because of the skills, etiquette, and best practices I learned through your coaching.”

-Former Email Lemonade student, 12 years later

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10 Ways to Know Your Emails are Lemons (and How to Fix Them)

    No spam, I promise. (Because that would be an email lemon.)