The EFL Magazine Business Podcast

Sue Leather is a UK ELT consultant, teacher educator and author, now based in Vancouver.  She runs an educational consultancy group, Sue Leather Associates ( www.sueleatherassociates.com ) specialising in teacher and trainer education, teacher’s professional development, and in the management of international ELT projects. She holds an MA in Education (TESOL) from the Institute of Education, University of London.  

Sue co-founded EVE:Equal Voices in ELT, an initiative that was created to recognise both gender and highly proficient speaker  parity in keynote and plenary line-ups for ELT conferences and events worldwide. (https://evecalendar.wordpress.com/ ) In 2020, she initiated the EVE Mentoring Programmes, which you can read about here: https://evecalendar.wordpress.com/eve-mentoring-the-story-so-far/ 

Sue is also an expert on Extensive Reading, sometimes called Learner Literature. She has written almost 40 original graded readers for a number of publishers. She has won the Learner Literature Award twice, for Dead Cold (Cambridge University Press) and Ask a Friend (StandFor Readers) and was nominated a further two times, for The Big Picture (Cambridge University Press) and The Way Home (Cambridge University Press). She is the author (with Jez Uden) of  Extensive Reading: The Role of Motivation (2021)

For the past year or so, Sue has been focusing on writing mainstream fiction. Her new website – coming any day now- is www.sueleather.com 

You can find all her books on her Amazon Author Page.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueleather/

Twitter: @sueleather  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sue.leather.50/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suesworks/ 

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Nick Jaworski is an internationally recognized executive in the field of behavioral health marketing and operational consulting with experience building organizations across four continents. As the owner of Circle Social Inc., he has helped healthcare organizations ranging in revenue from $10 million to $300 million a year perform turn-arounds and accelerate growth.

Originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Nick started out as an ELT teacher in Turkey and China before becoming a successful CEO.

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Jill Stribling is an educator, entrepreneur, and business owner. Originally from the USA she now lives in Spain

English for Fun offers students a competitive edge through self-esteem building, critical thinking training, and ethical modelling. 

Her team is constantly evolving as flexible, professional, team-oriented people who are passionate about education. An English for Fun teammate wants to build a resume while living in Spain. 

She was an elementary school teacher for eight years. She taught adults and children private English classes for several years as well. Based on her educational and professional experience,  she  developed a methodology for making language learning FUN. She began her entrepreneurial journey in October of 2008 with one student in her living room. 

English for Fun has over 3,000 students in Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcon and online. They have highly qualified English teachers LEGALLY EMPLOYED at English for Fun.

To think...it all started with an idea. English for Fun grew through hard work and perseverance during complicated financial times. 

https://www.englishforfun.es

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Andrew Hallam is the international best-selling author of Balance: How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health and Wealth; Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School and Millionaire Expat: How To Build Wealth Living Overseas. Profiled on such media as CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal, he's also the first person to have a #1 selling finance book on Amazon USA, Amazon Canada and Amazon UAE. He has written columns for The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, MoneySense, Swissquote and AssetBuilder. Since 2016 he has spoken at businesses and international schools in over 30 different countries.

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Elena Mutonono is a seasoned business coach who helps online language teachers move beyond 1:1 lessons and create a smarter system that lets you teach on your own terms and guarantees a stable income.

Elena is the author and co-author of 6 books, the creator of several online courses and the hostess in the Smart Teacher's Library -- a community for online language teachers and coaches.

She is one of the organizers of the Online Teacher Summit -- an annual online conference that brings together hundreds of online language teachers and coaches and inspires them to move toward working smarter.

Links:

Sign up for a free Smart Teacher's Kit to get the tools and strategies for working smarter: www.elenamutonono.com/the-smart-kit

Tune in to listen to Elena's podcast: www.elenamutonono.com/podcast

Follow her on Instagram: @elenamutonono 

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 Greg is the Co-founder and CEO of Global Services in Education, Ltd.(GSE) 

GSE sets up and operates schools across the world. GSE offers a school franchise model as well as independent education management services.

Highly regarded for his expertise in education leadership, Greg Parry’s vast experience includes high-level positions and leadership of more than 25 projects with K-12, secondary and vocational institutions throughout Australia, the Middle East, The United States, India, Africa and China. 

In addition to being an author and dynamic lecturer, Greg has trained teachers and principals throughout the world in areas such as critical thinking, language development and leadership. His expertise in school start up projects, leadership and curriculum development, has made him a sought after authority in these disciplines.

Greg has led curriculum design and administration of all major curriculums including Australian K-12, US Diploma, International Baccalaureate, UK IGCSE and A Levels.

Recipient of the prestigious Queensland (Australia) Minister’s Award for Excellence in School Leadership in 2007, Greg has also been recognised for outstanding achievement in other areas including Regional Showcase “Community and Industry Partnerships” and “Education Technology Innovation” Awards. 

GSE has been recognised with several international awards including:

• Award Winner - Top Ten Best Education Solutions (2018)
• Award Winner - Best Global Brand in International Education (2016)
• Award Winner - Best Global Brand in Secondary and Vocational Training (2015)
• Award Winner - Asia Pacific Corporate and Social Responsibility Award in Education (2015)

More recently Greg has been sourced by a number of private equity and investment groups to advise in the strategic design of school groups and education investment platforms. He is an advisor to a number of investment funds.

Publications

Greg and his senior advisors have published more than 150 blogs sharing expertise in the areas of international school set up and management. 

Greg and GSE are widely regarded as leading experts in the international education industry both in terms of education operations and well as strategic business development.

The blogs are freely available on their website and published regularly in a number of forums.

Greg has co-authored two books for educators: 

• “The A to Z’s for Teaching Overseas” 
• “A+ Interviewing for Educators” 
  
  

Greg is currently writing a new book called “Global Leadership and Authentic Relationships” to be published 2022. 

Greg operates a weekly Podcast called “Global Leadership by Greg Parry.”Teacher Training and Development (Worldwide - K-12, IB, A Level, IGCSE, US Curriculum)

Social Media Links:

www.gsineducation.com

Blogs: https://www.gsineducation.com/our-voice

https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-parry/

GSE Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2473758/admin/

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Chris is an education entrepreneur, investor and non-profit leader focused on developing and scaling initiatives and technologies that lower barriers and reduce inequalities in accessing the opportunities of the Future of Work. He founded BSD Education in 2013, an educational software and curriculum provider that enables teachers in schools to teach students digital skills during their lessons. BSD has grown to work with schools around the world and has teams located in Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines and the United States.

Marie  is  a driven entrepreneur and the Director of Australia’s largest private TESOL Training Provider, ATA TESOL College. She aims to revolutionise the English teaching and learning market.

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Emi Kamiya, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., is the founder of Kamiya English Coaching, Japan, which provides online coaching services for Japanese learners of English. She is the first language coach from Asia to be accredited and certified by the International Coach Federation. As a coach, Emi applies her extensive experience in language education, both in the US and Japan, which includes: teaching Japanese as a foreign language; and teaching English as a second or foreign language to learners of all ages from various linguistic backgrounds. Emi supports and encourages her clients to acquire the skills that will enable them to independently continue their own learning. As a researcher, she conducts research on the learners’ use of English in real-life conversations. She is a Neurolanguage® coach  She is currently in Japan.

Website: https://www.englishcoaching.jp/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/englishcoaching.jp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emi-kamiya-88421913a

NeuroLanguage Coach Network: https://neurolanguagecoachnetwork.com/coach/emi-kamiya/

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Leah has been the owner of Leah Sparrow Digital Marketing since January of 2020. Her love for marketing was discovered in the early 1990’s. She began as an on-air personality for a few radio stations in Tennessee. She was quickly promoted to production director and operations manager. Her duties included creating and overseeing the promotional and commercial content along with the programming of the station(s). 
She enjoyed her years in radio, but she began to notice a decline in sales. She realized the industry was shifting so she decided to pursue teaching. Spending time teaching her employees the art of delivery and content creation during her time in broadcasting was also something she found she had a passion for. In 2008, she decided to move on and pursue an education degree. 
Once she finished her masters in curriculum and instruction, she went on to teach at one of the private schools in her town. Although she enjoyed teaching the students, she discovered her health would not allow her to continue teaching in a brick mortar. She then decided to find a way to work from home. 
The discovery of online teaching was made as well as the discovery of a new passion: online teaching. In 2017, she began her online teaching with VIPKID and QKIDS. As she honed her skills through companies like VIPKID, QKIDS, GogoKid, and Outschool, she realized she wanted to take her passion for online teaching to the next level. After a few months of navigating and determining where her niche was in the independent online teaching world, she began the process of growing a digital marketing business. With the sole goal of helping online teachers grow and scale their online business through simplified marketing, Leah created Leah Sparrow Digital Marketing. Her digital course,The Online Teacher’s Facebook Ads Blueprint (TOTFAB), is helping online teachers take their business to the next level. For those interested in growing their business through social media marketing at any stage, she provides one on one sessions and social media management services.

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Facebook: @teacherleahsparrow
Facebook Group: Online Teacher Support & Training Instagram: @teacherleahsparrow
Twitter: @teacherleahs
LinkedIn: @teacherleahsparrow
YouTube: www.YouTube.com/leahsparrow
Website: www.teacherleah.com
email: leah@teacherleah.com

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Marlowe Johnson is the CEO of recently launched Educational Testing Service (ETS) subsidiary EdAgree, a company that is dedicated to optimizing long-term outcomes for international students, supporting their journey from research to application to graduation and beyond.  Before founding EdAgree, Mr. Johnson worked in the EdTech space at ETS, 2U and Pearson as a product owner and developer.  He also worked as a primary, secondary and post-secondary teacher in Cameroon, Tanzania, South Korea, China and the USA.

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Mark Pemberton has been pioneering in EdTech for the past 15 years. A strong advocator for meaningful change and adoption of technology in both at homes and schools. Mark is a frequent speaker and EdTech conferences around the world and a recognized thought leader in game-based language learning. 

Mark founded Studycat with his Co-founder Mateo Solares and together they have grown the business to global success with 14 million downloads in over 100 countries teaching English, Spanish, Chinese, French and German. 

Mark graduated from Warwick University in Philosophy & Politics is a fluent Mandarin speaker living in Tainan, Taiwan with his wife and two children.

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Today's guest is James Liu. James is a scientist, consultant, business coach, and an ESL student.
His own ESL teachers inspired him to start a business to help many more ESL teachers who are currently undervalued. Since 2019, he has helped thousands of teachers go independent and charge what they’re worth.

James's links:

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesliuphdmba/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boweistrategyllc
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesLiuESL
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamesliu_bowei/

James's FB group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Teacherentrepreneurnetwork

Free ebook:

https://boweistrategy.com/eslteacher-ebook

21-Day Teacher-Entrepreneur Challenge:

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Today's guest is Judy Wong. Judy is an International Educator, Consultant, Life Coach and Great Podcast Guest with a demonstrated history of working with individuals as a Life Coach and Energy Healer. An Educator /Consultant and Invited International Speaker in the performing & visual arts and education industry. Certified practitioner of the Silva Method and skilled in TESOL, Management, Arts, Nonprofit Organizations, and Fundraising. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a MA TESOL from The New School for Public Engagement.

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Today's guest is Herbert Gerzer. Herbert is a social media expert, specialising in getting more students for schools. According to his bio: "Herbert has had the privilege of working in the language training industry for over 13 years, first as an English trainer, then as Key Account Manager personally selling over €2M of language courses to corporate clients and managing a teaching team of over 120 language and business trainers in three countries. Now he has transferred that knowledge to help language schools attract new customers and sell more language courses through paid ad campaigns."

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Today's guest is Ben Buckwold. After living in Japan, Ben returned to Canada in 2002 and started ESL Library. We talk about Japan, how Ben got started and the challenges of growing and how his position has changed.

ESL Library was founded in 2002 as a resource site for English teachers. Their materials are used in thousands of classrooms in more than 100 countries around the world. The lessons they develop are intended to enhance, complement, or supplement your own ideas and curriculum. Every month they create and add new materials to the site. Unlike your core textbook, their library of resources continues to grow.

https://esllibrary.com/

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Today's guest is Dave Sperling. Dave is originally from L.A. and has in his time lived in Japan and Thailand. He started Dave's ESL cafe nearly 30 years ago, and in that time it has grown to be the most well-known EFL/ESL site on the web.

BTW, there was no hyper inflation in Japan in the 80s :)

Dave Sperling  is the founder of Dave's ESL Cafe. After teaching around the globe and completing his MA in Linguistics in 1995, he created Dave's ESL Cafe as a meeting place for ESL + EFL teachers and students from around the world.

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Today's guest is Nicola Lutz. Nicola and I talk about sales and selling, what to expect and prepare for in the sales cycle, and how to maximise sales opportunities and encounters in order to add to your company's bottom line.

Bio

Nicola is a sales trainer, mentor and coach. She helps those that need to sell do so in an authentic, customer-led way with integrity. She has the credentials to back it up - She has 26 year's experience of selling, sales management, sales directorship and training and coaching.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales Management, which is the highest level they accredit. They also keep her up to date with my own learning of new skills, technology and methods.

She is a member of the CPD Accreditation body, which means she focuses on tangible learning outcomes from her training.

www.nofluff.biz

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Today's guest is John Healy. I chat to John about his career in IT prior to begging to teach English. We talk also about his time in Korea and his new company www.myspeakingscore.com

Bio

John is the founder and CEO of My Speaking Score, an AI speech assessmenttool that evaluates spoken English and predicts TOEFL Speaking scores. With over a decade of experience as a university professor in South Korea (Yeungnam, Korea University), John has logged thousands of classroom hours training both students and teachers in test prep strategies and academic subjects. His online courses Study With It, TOEFL Clear Strategies and Tactics, TOEFL Turbo Tactics, and others, have helped learners from over 100 countries develop English skills and earn high TOEFL scores. John earned his MA in TESOL from Anaheim and resides in Florence, Italy with his wife and daughter.

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Today's guest is Guy Cihi. Guy is the founder of Words and Monsters and Lexxica He started his career with Disney World of English, and while he was there, took the company from $50 million to $300 million in revenue. Guy has recently launched Words and Monsters, a mobile phone game for English teaching and learning.

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Today's guest is Zsuzsanna Smith.  Zsuzsanna and I talk about being an entrepreneur, the pitfalls and challenges that go with starting out on one's own, and how to bounce back and start over when things do go to plan.

An Early Childhood Educator by trade, Zsuzsanna specializes in student-centric teaching skills and curriculum design. As a Teacher Trainer at the Helen Doron she trained over a 1000 teachers in 17 countries, while she was also involved in quality assurance, curriculum development and creating instructional guides for parents and teachers. In 2019, Zsuzsanna moved to the USA and started her own consulting service for online experts who want to streamline their education-based content and maximize their online course conversion & retention rates.

http://www.zsuzsannasmith.com

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