CLTC-C Teacher Trainers

Michael Tighe

Michael founded his company U.S. English Services over 20 years ago. Since then, he has offered the insight he has gained through substantial experience in the business English training market to a variety of corporate clients, language institutions and publishers. His company works together with a network of experienced specialists to assist clients with a variety of innovative solutions related to Business English and effective intercultural cooperation.

In 2001, Michael played a major role in one of the largest, award-winning, blended learning training programs set up in Germany, and has since incorporated blended learning as a central element in programs designed for most of his clients.

Michael works with both clients and developers in the fields of:

• management/intercultural training and HR development for international business
• executive coaching
• business English media creation, development and design
• blended learning program creation, development and design
• train-the-trainer programs

 >>Click here for the U.S. English Services website<<

Nick Brieger

Nick is one of five directors of York Associates, a well-established professional language and communication skills training company based in the UK. Nick holds a post-graduate teacher training qualification in TEFL and an MA in Applied Linguistics, and his career has included language teaching and teacher training in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland and Spain.

He specialises in professional language and communication training. He works with clients in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Russia and has broad experience of in-service Teacher Training programmes.

Nick has published widely over the years and is the co-author of three series of teaching materials published by Pearson, the editor of Penguin's Professional English series and the author of Penguin's Test your Professional English: Law. He is a regular contributor to international conferences, particularly in the field of Business English.

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Stefan Gee

Stefan is founder and director of Gee Language Services (GLS), a language school based in Duisburg, Germany, with a team of 20 language trainers. GLS has specialised in developing fully integrated, customer-specific training solutions for its clients in the area of Business English. The solutions include approaches such as tele-coaching, email coaching and elearning.

Over the years, Stefan has also acted as a consultant in numerous language learning projects for large and medium-sized companies in Germany. He works closely with the IHK Düsseldorf in assessing the skills of trainees and ensuring quality standards of their language training programs are met.

Stefan is an experienced teacher-trainer both in the business and state school sectors. He frequently holds teacher-trainer workshops and is instrumental in taking the principles of the CLTC-C into schools in order to support the development of the foreign language competence of school-leavers.

Anne Sass

Anne Sass is trainer for languange, communication skills and systemic coach.

She trains German as a foreign language and intercultural communication for specialists and executive staff. In addition she provides train-the-trainer Seminars in Germany and abroad. She gained international experiences when she worked as a lecturer for German language, regional studies an literature at the University for languages and foreign trade in Guangzhou, PR China and as a trainer for the Goethe Insitut in Ha Noi and Moscow.

Since 1997 she has worked freelance as communication trainer. Her costumers are Henkel AG & Co KgaA, Goethe Institute, Max Hueber Verlag and SKYLIGHT et al.