Rachel Paling Podcast Series

Nathalie is an award-winning entrepreneur, business coach and mentor based in the UK. Her mission is to deliver a lifelong love of languages to everyone; child, or adult in both personal and professional worlds. 10 years ago, she started VICI Language Academy, delivering linguistic coaching in 11 languages to clients between the ages of 2 and 92. And for the last 6 years she has also been running VICI Language Dynamics, a corporate offering designed to ensure that business organisations flourish with the right language training services. VICI has grown exponentially and is now an international business with offices in the UK and France. Nathalie says “I work hard to make sure life is fun! And I firmly believe in a continuous approach to learning and development.”'Discover a Lifelong Love of Languages'The VICI Language Academy LLPwww.thevici.com 'Bespoke Language Training for International Business'VICI Language Dynamics Ltdwww.vicilanguagedynamics.com'Professionels de l'enseignem

Louise Goodman's passion is to make life easier for Italian Executives who need to communicate in an intercultural context, building self-confidence to achieve their business and professional goals. She holds a combined business and BEC (Business English Communication) trainer background. She first worked for large multinational ICT companies in the USA, Germany, UK, CH and Italy, covering roles in business planning & development, marketing & communication and sales. Then she has specialized in BEC training and coaching, achieving the Cambridge DELTA master diploma. She has held several workshops on communication competences in English for executives in fashion, wealth management, top management consulting, insurance, chemical industry. She was also rewarded a prize and gave a webinar on the future of Business English training for IATEFL BESIG. To access IATEFL BESIG webinar titled: “The future of Business English training”, you have to become a BESIG member and follow instructions.100th edition

Super to connect and speak with Dana in Argentina. Dana Poklepovic is the CEO & Director at DPL Corporate Language Dynamics. She holds a Phd in Modern Languages and is an Ontological and a C-IQ coach. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of communication skills and training & Consulting for companies and professionals. Dana delivers coaching and leadership training specializing in executive and leadership coaching, training in presentation skills, and the leader coach. She runs and designs Train the Trainer and workshops for communication skills and Business English trainers, soft skills training and using coaching tools for specialized sectors. 

Great to speak with Michelle Hunter, who as an expert has delivered over two hundred in-company language learning courses since 2005. She has successfully transitioned from language training practitioner to in-house skills training and language coaching, as well as being an accomplished conference speaker and published writer. Michelle has a Master's in Coaching in Education (WBIS), with Distinction and is currently undertaking a Phd at the University of York investigating what affective strategies learners and instructors at a German university use in order to learn / teach on a business degree course when English is the medium of instruction. Michelle has a great interest in how coaching and coaching techniques impact the learning process.

Lovely to speak with Sue Thomas, who is the Co-founder and CEO of Thomas & Neel Language School. Sue began her career in the UK in the healthcare sector. She lived and worked in Switzerland for 3 years before arriving in France in 1982.In 1989 she co-founded a contemporary art gallery in Paris with her French husband. From 1991 she devoted herself to teaching English in Paris where she runs a vocational training institute helping professionals learn and perfect the language skills they need to be successful in an international workplace. Sue has created a methodology for enhancing the learning process in English based on developing specific listening skills and in 2013 trained as a Neurolanguage Coaching® coach. Sue is co-founder of English Waves the "French radio station that speaks English".Find out more about English Waves here.

Delighted to interview Rob Howard who after a business career in the US, is online as an active EFL Teacher, training teachers to build their own freelance businesses as well as teaching Business English and studying Neurolanguage Coaching®. He is Joint Coordinator for the IATEFL BESIG Web & Online Team, president of the BRAZ-TESOL BESIG, Online and Video Coordinator for the Visual Arts Circle and has authored and coauthored several books for EFL as well as co-founder with Dorothy Zemach of the Independent Authors & Publishers Group. He is a speaker worldwide on Continuing Professional Development, Business Development and Image Presentation and the founder of EFLtalks which was nominated for the 2016 British Council's ELTon Award for Innovation in Teacher Development. He lives in Brazil and Poland. www.RobHoward.me

In this first episode of this new Podcast Series, I will be introducing the theme of this series “What is Language Coaching?”. We are witnessing how language teaching is transforming worldwide and the new phenomena of language teachers calling themselves language coaches and the question here is what is this? Are there any guidelines or is there a definition?For those who know me, I am the creator of Neurolanguage Coaching®, a new approach and method for language learning which combines the principles of neuroscience together with coaching a vehicle of delivering the learning process. Back in 2012 I created the definition of Neurolanguage Coaching®,“Neurolanguage Coaching® is the efficient and fast transfer of language knowledge from the Language Coach to the Language Coachee with sustainable effects facilitated by brain based coaching and coaching principles.” I am deeply interested and curious to understand what other colleagues and fellow professionals think about the topic of Language Coaching and what th